Why don't people surnamed Chen celebrate the winter solstice in my place (Zhanjiang)?

We celebrate the winter solstice, but we don't eat jiaozi. Wuchuan people have the habit of eating ginger rice in winter solstice. It is said that ginger rice can keep out the cold and is good for health. On this day, every household in Wuchuan is used to buying more than a dozen pieces of ginger and bacon, sausages and ducks to cook delicious rice with ginger sauce for the winter solstice. On the solstice of winter, no matter how busy, the whole family will get together to eat ginger rice, which is the custom of Wuchuan people.

After the solstice of winter, the climate in all places has entered the coldest stage, which is often called "nine cold". This season needs to keep out the cold and is suitable for tonic. Because ginger can keep out the cold and bacon can supplement, Wuchuan people cook bacon-flavored ginger rice in winter solstice, which is suitable for seasonal food. Therefore, Wuchuan winter solstice bacon-flavored ginger rice lasts for a long time, and the more it is cooked, the more fragrant it is.

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Hakkas call the solstice of winter "wintering". According to the custom, every household should "have a good meal". "Winter solstice mutton, summer solstice dog meat", around the winter solstice, Hakka people in Meizhou like to eat mutton and make wine. People usually say that it is good for health to heat and eat mutton during the winter solstice. Therefore, boiled mutton with wine has become a seasonal food for Hakkas in winter.

In Meizhou, a Hakka area in eastern Guangdong, brewing Niangjiu is one of the most important customs on this day. This custom has been circulating for thousands of years and still prevails today. In the early morning from winter to Sunday, in Meixi Town, Meixian County, smoke curled up in front of and behind the village houses, and many villagers were busy brewing Hakka Niang wine at home. Hakkas believe that water is the most mellow in winter solstice, and the wine brewed with it can be stored for a long time, and it will be very sweet and produce saliva.