What are the customs of winter solstice in Maoming? Maoming's unique customs

Maoming winter solstice custom: Maoming does everything in winter. The so-called "_" is similar to a kind of food made of rice flour and potato flour, with various preparation methods, shapes and eating methods, mainly salty and sweet. During the winter solstice, ancestor worship is held in ancestral halls, usually by clans. Often held some ancestor worship ceremony, such as killing pigs and cattle, acting to reward God. For example, reading genealogy and telling family history.

The winter solstice is an important traditional festival in China lunar calendar. The winter solstice is usually called "Winter Festival", "Long Festival" and "Asian New Year". On this day, the night is the longest and the day is the shortest.

Maoming City is located in the west of Guangdong Province, bordering Yangjiang City in the east, Nanhai City in the south, Zhanjiang City in the west and Yulin City in Guangxi in the north. It is high in the north and low in the south, inclining from northeast to southwest, and belongs to the transitional zone between tropical and subtropical monsoon humid climate zones.

According to the Records of Gaozhou Prefecture in Wanli of Ming Dynasty, there were Pan Maoming people in Gaozhou during Yongjia period at the end of Western Jin Dynasty. When he entered the mountain, he met a Taoist priest playing chess. The Taoist priest appreciated his answers and looks and taught him to prescribe the immortal prescription of Polygonatum sibiricum. He collected medicine and alchemy in Dongshan, and then went up to Xishan.