What custom food does Jiangsu eat on the solstice in winter?

There are three kinds of custom foods in winter solstice in Jiangsu, namely, air mass from winter solstice, small wonton and winter wine making.

1, winter solstice air mass

On the day of "Winter Solstice Day and Night", every household uses sticky rice noodles to make meatballs, so a poem says: "Every family smashed rice for family reunion, knowing that it is the winter solstice day." There are air masses of different sizes in the winter solstice. The big one contains bean paste, radish strips, raw pork and so on. Used to worship the stove first and give gifts to each other, also called zongzi. Small ones without stuffing are used to worship the gods, called pink balls.

2, small wonton

Old Suzhou people have a saying that "the solstice in winter is small wonton, and the solstice in summer is noodles". From the perspective of food culture, this situation is due to the ancient saying that "the sky is round and the place is round", and it feels that the round wonton skin is the ground, and the stuffing in the middle bag is the sky, which is a "chaotic world" in which "dry and Kun are not divided, and dry and Kun are integrated".

Suzhou people eat "small wonton" on the night of winter solstice, which means swallowing up the "chaotic world" and making the world more and more relaxed and happy.

3. Brewing in winter

Winter wine is brewed during the solar term from winter to Sunday. This wine is brewed only once a year before the solar term from winter to solar term, with sweet and light taste and rich aroma. When the wine is poured into the cup, the fragrance rises gradually, and then spreads. Finally, the room is full of warm fragrance, which makes people drunk before drinking.

However, wine is weak in winter, and men, women and children can drink two glasses. So the winter brewing in Suzhou at that time was a kind of brewing wine, which was brewed with osmanthus trees. It tastes sweet, golden in color, with a faint scent of osmanthus trees. It is very delicious and pleasant.

Meteorological changes:

From winter to the future, although the solar altitude angle gradually increases, it is a slow recovery process, and the heat lost every day is still greater than the heat received, showing a situation of "making ends meet". On the day of "March 9 and April 9", the accumulated heat is the least, the temperature is the lowest, and the weather is getting colder and colder.

China has a vast territory, and the climate and landforms vary greatly from place to place. Although the days from winter solstice are short, the temperature from winter solstice is not the lowest; It won't be very cold before the winter solstice, because there is still "accumulated heat" on the surface, and the real cold winter is after the winter solstice. Due to the disparity of climate in different parts of China, this astronomical climate feature is obviously late for most parts of China.