The origin of eating sweet potato king in winter

The old foundation is called "Worship the Winter Solstice Day". According to the custom of old Ningbo, it is necessary to cook soup and rice on the Winter Solstice Day. On the morning of winter solstice, I must eat a bowl of sweet potato soup, which is one year older than the soup, meaning to "turn over" all the bad luck before. Eating a few jiaozi and jiaozi on this day means a happy reunion. Old Ningbo people also want to make baked rice cakes, pinning their good wishes of "getting taller every year" and "baking loudly".

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Winter solstice, Ningbo people's first choice, breakfast is a bowl of hot, delicious sweet potato soup, warm to the stomach. Adding a spoonful of distiller's grains to sweet potato soup is what Ningbo people call "pulp board" There is a lot of good heat hidden in this spoon.

Among the 24 solar terms, the winter solstice is the first to be determined. In the Zhou Dynasty, people regarded the winter solstice as the first year of the year, and Zhou Li recorded that "the winter solstice is the day to send ghosts and gods". On this day every year, the emperor will hold a New Year celebration with three officials and nine ministers.

In the winter solstice custom in Ningbo, a bowl of hot and delicious My Sweetie sweet potato soup "must have a name". This may be related to the good wish of "hiding" in sweet potato soup-the arrival of the winter solstice means that the year is coming to an end, and the homonym of sweet potato "fan" means that the bad luck of the past year will be turned over; Tang Guo is also called "Mariko" by many Ningbo people, which means reunion and perfection.