What's the saying about eating chicken on the solstice in winter?

Boiled chicken and crispy barbecue are indispensable roles in Cantonese barbecue, especially in winter solstice. In Hong Kong and Macao, the tradition of "no chicken, no feast" has been maintained. Eating chicken on the solstice in winter is homophonic "Ji", which means good luck. I hope I can win a good lottery.

Moreover, boiled chicken is not easy to handle, and the best boiled chicken is soaked rather than steamed. Chicken is tender and refreshing, and can be seasoned with ginger and onion to improve the taste and remove the fishy smell. On the day of winter solstice, you have to queue up at the barbecue shop or make a reservation at the restaurant to taste it. Hong Kong is basically the purest boiled chicken; In Macao, boiled chicken can be coated with scallion oil and made into scallion-fried chicken or hand-torn chicken.

Winter solstice principle:

The current "twenty-four solar terms" come from the "fixed gas law" concluded more than 300 years ago. The method of "fixing qi" is a method to determine solar terms according to the position of the sun on the regression ecliptic, that is, on a 360-degree circle "ecliptic" (the apparent path of the sun on the celestial sphere for one year), it is divided into 24 equal parts, each equal part is 15, with spring as the starting point of 0 degree (but beginning of spring is still in the first place in ranking), and arranged according to the degree of the ecliptic.

Every time the sun moves 15 degrees on the ecliptic, it is a "solar term", and each "solar term" has the same degree and different time. Therefore, the 24 solar terms are 24 time points, and the specific date of the "point" is the natural result of celestial movement. The solar terms divided by the method of "fixing qi" began in the beginning of spring and ended in the great cold. The solstice in winter is when the sun moves to 270 degrees of the yellow meridian.