What are the customs of the winter solstice solar terms?

The custom of solar terms in winter solstice varies from place to place.

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.

The folk proverb of the Han nationality in Chaoshan area says, "The winter festival is as big as a year" and "The winter festival has not returned to the ancestors". This means that people who go out must go home to worship their ancestors on the solstice in winter anyway, otherwise they will have no concept of ancestral home. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait attach great importance to the winter solstice and regard it as a festival of reunion.

After eating the Winter Festival jiaozi, Chaoshan people always put two Winter Festival jiaozi on the doors, windows, tables, cabinets, ladders, beds and other conspicuous places at home, even the bow of fishermen's boats, the horns of farmers' cows and fruit trees planted by fruit farmers are no exception.

In Taiwan Province Province, China, the tradition of offering nine-layer cakes to ancestors from winter to the sun is still preserved. Glutinous rice flour is used to knead animals such as chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cattle and sheep. , a symbol of good luck, and then put it in a steamer and steam it layer by layer to worship the ancestors to show that they don't forget their ancestors.

"Eat until winter, and you can arrange a line a day." In Hefei, Anhui Province, the custom of eating noodles from winter solstice is related to solar terms, climate and agriculture. After the solstice in winter, there are nine cold days, and every nine days, there are nine days. In the severe winter, eating a bowl of hot egg noodles is considered as the solstice of winter.

In the memory of people in Chengdu, Sichuan, mutton is eaten every winter to Sunday, which is delicious and can drive away the cold. The milky soup base has a strong mutton flavor. Fresh mutton and mutton offal are served with red millet pepper, and a pinch of onion and coriander. Mutton soup with good color and flavor has always been the favorite of local people.