Do you know what is the custom for southerners to celebrate the winter solstice?

As we all know, every traditional festival has different traditional customs, and so does the Sun Festival. Different solar terms have different customs, and the customs between the north and the south are very different. Let's talk about the traditional customs of solar terms in the southern winter solstice, and then use the old yellow calendar to see.

According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Ciba will be held on the solstice in winter, and many people participate in it, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba from the winter solstice. And whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, we should make Ciba. So in our hometown, Ciba is called "Big Ciba", and now jiaozi is called "Little Ciba" with a little disdain.

According to legend, eating honey pills has become a custom of "drinking and having fun and paying tribute to the elderly" in the winter solstice of Han Dynasty. Sweet pills have been popular since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Sweet pills are not only sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water pills, but also the most representative food from winter to Sunday. Before the winter solstice, farmers' housewives made glutinous rice flour (now mostly rolled mechanically), and some exchanged needed items as gifts for relatives and friends.

In the morning of winter solstice, adults and children at home often sit around a bamboo gourd or a big plate. Each person extracts a powder ball made of glutinous rice flour and water in advance and rubs it into a marble with both hands, which is called "winter solstice pill". "Winter Solstice Pill" symbolizes family reunion at the end of the year. Some "winter solstice pills" also contain orange cakes, winter melon candy and bean paste, commonly known as "duck mother cup". "Winter solstice pills" can be rubbed at will in different sizes, which is a good sign of "Gongsun pills". In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "Winter Solstice Pills, once eaten, celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding new year", which means that although the new year has not passed, everyone has added a year.

Eating glutinous rice balls was established in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the solstice of winter, it is necessary to "make dumplings" or "make dumplings". These are also officially recorded in historical materials. The history says that "on the winter solstice, powdered glutinous rice is a pill, which is called' glutinous rice balls'". After jiaozi is wrapped up, it is necessary to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and then the whole family will eat around. This is called "adding years". Therefore, it is very old to eat glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter.

Eating dumplings is a traditional custom from winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an essential food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "the winter solstice group". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older".

Eating barbecue on the solstice in winter, most Cantonese people have the custom of eating meat with vegetables on the solstice in winter. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. The whole family prepared some bacon and sausages to eat after paying homage to their ancestors, hoping to come to lucky strike next year.

Bacon is no longer just sausages, but also preserved fish, bacon, preserved duck, preserved chicken and so on. A pot of oily and delicious bacon clay pot rice can easily capture people's constant pursuit of food.

Eating nine-layer cakes also retains the tradition of worshipping ancestors from winter to daily use. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals symbolizing good luck and happiness, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to show that you don't forget your ancestors. It is also common to "make up for winter" in winter festival. On the day before the winter festival, after dinner, families rub circles in the hall. In ancient times, it was forbidden to say ominous words when rubbing circles. After rounding jiaozi, we should make up for the winter. Rice cakes are one of the supplements. Sweet rice cakes should be dried longan meat. Salted rice cakes include mutton cakes and red rice cakes. There are also babao stewed male muscovy ducks, cocks and turtles.

Eat rice cakes, rice cakes, rice cakes. Eating rice cakes is to win the lottery ticket of "getting higher every year". From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou always eat rice cakes on the solstice of winter. The most extreme way to eat is to eat three meals a day without missing a meal. In the morning, we eat steamed rice cakes with sesame powder and sugar, fried rice cakes with oil and winter vegetables and shredded pork with winter bamboo shoots at noon. Dinner is rice cake with mustard, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup.

Eating Red Bean and Glutinous Rice In China Jiangnan Water Town, it is a custom for the whole family to get together to eat red bean and glutinous rice at night from winter to Sunday. According to legend, * * * Gong's family is a gifted scholar who does many evils. He died on the winter solstice and became a plague after his death. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red beans and glutinous rice on the solstice in winter to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent disasters.