What is the custom of eating from winter solstice in Ningbo?

Ningbo eats glutinous rice balls, jiaozi and zongzi on the solstice in winter.

65438+February 2 1 coincides with the solar term of winter solstice, and folks have always said that winter solstice is as big as a year. The "standard posture" of Ningbo people from winter to Sunday is mostly to eat glutinous rice balls, jiaozi or Bao jiaozi. The sense of ceremony is full, which also drives Yongcheng's winter solstice consumption to climb.

Ningbo dongzhi taste

People in Ningbo should prepare many special foods for the winter solstice festival. Among them, three kinds of food are inseparable from the word "Yi". Turnip rice cakes, taro and fairy chicken are winter solstice delicacies in Ningbo.

Every year before the winter solstice, Grandma Hu Xiuhua in the village of Shifangfang, Zhenhai is always as busy as a bee, preparing traditional food radish cake for the winter solstice, and the big stove that has been idle for half a year has been put into use again.

"Turnips and taro must be cooked in a big stove, so that they are delicious," Hu Apo said, lighting firewood with a newspaper behind the big stove. Cooking in a big stove is troublesome, and firewood is dusty. It is only used when turnips and chickens are slaughtered.