What is the custom of winter solstice?

As the saying goes, "the solstice in winter is like a year." On February 2 1 or 22 every year, when the sun reaches 270 (winter solstice), the "winter solstice" begins. A long time ago, the winter solstice has become an ancient and important festival in China. For thousands of years, folk customs such as ancestor worship in winter are still circulating. So what other traditional customs do you know besides worshipping your ancestors on the winter solstice? Let me make it easy for you.

1, jiaozi Every year during the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for the rich and the poor. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", who gave up medicine from the winter solstice. When you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, you will never forget the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", in "Quhan Joule Decoction". Up to now, there is still a folk song in Nanyang, which is called "jiaozi Bowl, and nobody cares about frozen ears." .

2, jiaozi "winter is like a year, every family eats jiaozi." Jiaozi, also called dumplings, is popular in Jiangnan area. It is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection", so eating jiaozi in winter solstice is also called "winter solstice jiaozi". Jiangnan is the main producing area of rice, and people in Yangzhou, Nantong, Wuxi, Zhenjiang and other places in Jiangsu have the custom of eating glutinous rice balls from winter to Sunday.

3, winter brewing Suzhou has a saying since ancient times, "If you don't drink winter brewing on the winter solstice, you will freeze for one night." On the solstice of winter, mellow and delicious winter wine will inevitably appear on the table of every household in Suzhou. Suzhou people and the winter solstice always have a bowl of winter wine that they can't give up. Dongniang is a kind of low-alcohol yellow rice wine, with osmanthus and some Chinese herbal medicines. Jiangnan is a rice producing area, and people are popular in brewing rice wine. Suzhou is rich in osmanthus.

4. Stewed tofu with green vegetables, as the standard of Nanjing from winter solstice, "burning steamed buns" is to worship ancestors, and "counting nine" is to welcome the new year. Green bean curd is the most common vegetable in ordinary families in the past, which has the meaning of "clear and white" and "green bean curd keeps safe" So stewed tofu with green vegetables has become a "standard" on Nanjing people's winter solstice table.

5.1After September 1999, some literati went to participate in the so-called activities to keep out the cold, and chose a "September" day, where about nine people met to drink (wine is homophonic with "nine"), and there were nine dishes and nine bowls on the table. Those who finished the table used "nine flowers" seats to take the meaning of "nine nine" to cool off the wind. 99 cold songs: 19, 29 don't shoot; Walking on the ice on March 9 and April 9; From May 9th to June 9th, look at the willows by the river; 79 rivers open and swallows come 89 miles; 99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere.

This is the traditional custom of winter solstice that I know. What else do you know?