What do you eat on the solstice in winter?

1, Chaoshan people eat Winter Festival Pills on the solstice of winter: There is a folk proverb in Chaoshan called "Eating Winter Festival Pills for the New Year", commonly known as "adding a year", which means that although a 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".

2. Hakkas eat wine during the winter solstice: Hakkas believe that the taste of water is the most mellow during the winter solstice, and the wine brewed with it can be kept for a long time, soft and refreshing, sweet and refreshing, and has sufficient stamina. Therefore, making wine on the solstice in winter has become a custom of Hakkas.

3. Eating mutton soup in Sichuan until the sun in winter: Eating mutton soup in Sichuan until the sun in winter is the first tonic in winter. Experts pointed out that eating mutton can not only drive away cold, but also tonify the body, and has a good effect on colds and coughs, chronic tracheitis, asthma due to deficiency of cold, impotence due to kidney deficiency, abdominal cold pain, physical weakness and chills, soreness of waist and knees, sallow and emaciated, and deficiency of both qi and blood.

4. Hangzhou people eat rice cakes until the sun in winter: from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China until now, Hangzhou people like to eat rice cakes until the sun in winter. Every winter solstice, we make rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes mixed with sesame powder and sugar. At noon, we eat fried rice cakes with pickles, winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. For dinner, we have mustard rice cake, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup. Eating rice cakes on the solstice of winter is good luck to get old.

In addition, there is a general division of eating jiaozi in the north and glutinous rice balls in the south.