What does Hunan eat in winter from solstice?

Hunan Winter Solstice Day: Winter Solstice Day Meat, Babao Glutinous Rice, Tangyuan, Wonton and Winter Solstice Day Wine.

1, Winter solstice meat: Hunan people will kill chickens and pigs during the winter solstice and put the meat in the shade to dry, which is called winter solstice meat. As the saying goes, eating meat from the winter solstice makes the body compete with calves. Urban and rural residents in Changsha are used to making preserved fish and bacon from winter solstice. Marinate the fish for four or five days and hang it in a windy place to dry. Then smoked with sawdust, chaff, orange peel and peanut shell, or smoked on a firewood stove until golden yellow, called winter bacon. It can be kept until next summer.

Babao glutinous rice: In Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, Hunan Province, the custom from winter to Sunday is to eat Babao glutinous rice or glutinous rice. Choose glutinous rice, longan pulp, red dates, lotus seeds, medlar, walnut kernel, pine nuts, yam and rock sugar. Mix the ingredients with steamed glutinous rice, or sprinkle with sweet juice cooked with milk or soybean milk and tremella.

3. Tangyuan: Eating Tangyuan not only means that the sun is gradually coming back, but also means reunion. Hunan people like to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, which is called adding years. The family sat around the brazier eating jiaozi and nagging about the past, and that kind of warm feeling would rise in the heat of jiaozi.

4. Wonton: Because winter solstice is the first solar term in agriculture, it has its special connotation. Historically, the winter of the solstice is called the year, while in Changsha, it is said that the winter solstice is as big as a year. The day before the winter solstice is called Xiao Zhi and Xiao Zhi Night, while the old family reunion dinner is called Chu Er Night or Dongchu. Some people eat wonton at dinner, which is homophonic with chaos, meaning that the solstice in winter is the anniversary of the beginning of the world. It is said that when chaos began, Kun began to drink.

5. Winter solstice wine: Winter solstice is also called winter festival. Changsha used to gather people to worship their ancestors at ancestral temples. At that time, pigs and sheep were slaughtered and wine was held on the winter solstice. When a sacrificial ceremony is held, the elderly will go all the way back to their hometown to worship their ancestors.