What is the food that the south often eats in the winter of solstice?

Eating jiaozi is also a traditional custom from winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an essential food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "the winter solstice group". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". The winter solstice group can be used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. In the past, Shanghainese were most particular about eating jiaozi. An ancient poem said, "Every family beats rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." "Circle" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter symbolizes family harmony and good luck.

2. Winter Sweet Pills

Winter sweet pills are usually cooked before dawn. After the family gets up, they should eat a bowl of "Winter Festival Pills". There is a saying in Chaoshan folk that "the Chinese New Year will be celebrated as soon as the winter festival pills are eaten", commonly known as "adding the year", which means that although one year has not passed, everyone has added a year. Children are most eager to eat this bowl of sweet pills, and often wake up at night and ask the morning? However, the sky seems to be joking with the children, and it is always not bright. Therefore, there is a nursery rhyme of "winter festival night, long years, fragrant pills are not cooked". In fact, every year on the solstice of winter, the night is the longest, and after the solstice of winter, it gradually becomes shorter. In the past, in Chaoshan urban and rural areas, it was also customary to worship Commander Gong with sweet glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter, and to prepare three sacrifices to worship the ancestors to sweep the grave. It was called "winter paper" to sweep the grave on the solstice in winter. Less than three years after death, future generations will "spend the spring paper" and then "spend the winter paper" in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Sweeping graves on the solstice in winter, because there is little rain and plenty of sunshine in winter, it is more convenient to hold ancestor worship activities in Shan Ye, and it is also an outing for entertainment.

3. Nine-layer cake

On the solstice of winter, the tradition of worshipping ancestors with nine-layer cakes is to knead glutinous rice flour into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals symbolizing good luck, and then steam them in layers in a steamer to worship ancestors and show that they will not forget their ancestors. In the early days of the winter solstice or before and after the agreement, people with the same surname and clan gather in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors one by one in the order of generations. After the ceremony, there will be a grand banquet for the people who come to worship their ancestors. Let's have a good drink and get in touch with our long-lost feelings.

4. Barbecue

On the solstice of winter, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat from the solstice of winter. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. The whole family prepared some bacon and sausages to eat after paying homage to their ancestors, hoping to come to lucky strike next year.

Some Cantonese also have the custom of sending bacon to relatives and friends on the solstice in winter. To this end, supermarkets have carefully set up a thriving sausage shop, which is filled with all kinds of bacon, sausages, cured ducks, ham, bacon and so on. Not only in bulk, but also in bags, so that the public can get what they need. In order to attract people to buy, some supermarkets also send staff to set up stalls outside the supermarket to sell bacon products and sell bacon products to passers-by.

What do you eat on the solstice in southern winter?

5. Red bean glutinous rice

In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice in the evening from winter to Sunday. There is also an interesting legend about its origin: according to legend, a son named * * * Gong died in the winter and became a plague after his death, which continued to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

6.rice cake

New year's cake, new year's cake. Eating rice cakes is to win the lottery ticket of "getting higher every year". From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou always eat rice cakes on the solstice of winter. The most extreme way to eat is to eat three meals a day without missing a meal. In the morning, we eat steamed rice cakes with sesame powder and sugar, fried rice cakes with oil and winter vegetables and shredded pork with winter bamboo shoots at noon. Dinner is rice cake with mustard, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup.