Can I eat steamed bread on the solstice in winter?

You can eat steamed stuffed buns on the solstice in winter.

Winter solstice, also known as solstice, winter festival, child year, etc. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk ancestor worship festival in China. The solstice in winter is one of the eight festivals in four seasons, and it is considered as a big holiday in winter. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year. The custom of winter solstice varies in content or details due to different regions. In southern China, there are customs of offering sacrifices to ancestors and enjoying the winter solstice. In northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi from winter to Sunday every year.

The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term in the "24 solar terms", and the solar calendar reaches 270 degrees. Every year, the festival is held on 65438+February 2 1-23 in the Gregorian calendar. The solstice in winter is the extreme point of direct sunlight spreading to the south. From winter to the sun, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the sun is most inclined to the northern hemisphere, and the solar altitude angle is the smallest. In all parts of the northern hemisphere, the days are the shortest and the nights are the longest.

traditional custom

Eat zongzi; eat rice dumplings; eat glutinous rice balls

Eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is a traditional custom, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an indispensable food in winter solstice, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating jiaozi in winter solstice is also called "winter solstice yen". There is a folk saying that eating jiaozi is one year old.

Eat barbecue and ginger rice

Some places in the south want to eat barbecue on the solstice in winter. On the solstice of winter, roasted meat becomes an indispensable delicacy on the table of Guangdong and Guangxi people, which means adding vegetables to add new year. On the solstice of winter, Wuchuan people have the custom of "eating ginger rice" on the solstice of winter.

Eat dumplings

In many places in northern China, it is customary to eat jiaozi on the solstice every winter, while in northern China, people eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi means "driving away the cold". Up to now, there is a folk proverb that "the jiaozi bowl is not good in winter, and nobody cares about the frozen ears".