Where are the winter solstice noodles?

Eating noodles during the winter solstice is a custom to celebrate the winter solstice in northern Anhui. "Winter solstice noodle", commonly known as "dried noodles", is a kind of pasta, which is made by local people by hand.

Handmade vermicelli is very particular. They are all made of top-grade wheat supplemented by natural materials such as refined salt and eggs. After eight processes, such as mixing, waking, coiling, hanging and pulling, it was finally formed in half a day's operation.

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.

The significance of eating jiaozi from winter solstice.

Moral 1: Make trouble in jiaozi Bowl on the solstice of winter, and no one will care if you freeze your ears.

The proverb says: On 10/day, when the solstice of winter comes, every family will eat jiaozi. This custom is said to commemorate the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing, who gave up medicine on the solstice of winter. Therefore, in the north of China, during the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, jiaozi has become an indispensable holiday food for both the rich and the poor.

Moral 2: The solstice of winter is coming. Eat jiaozi and be round and round.

In some places, on the day of winter solstice, the family will be very busy, preparing all kinds of dumpling wrappers and stuffing, and then the family will sit together to make jiaozi, eat jiaozi and get together for the winter solstice. In addition to eating jiaozi in the north, there is also the custom of eating glutinous rice balls in the south, which means round and round.