What does Anhui eat on the solstice in winter?

Anhui people eat red bean glutinous rice, winter solstice noodles, old hen soup, glutinous rice balls and pumpkin Baba in winter solstice.

1, eat noodles on the winter solstice

In Hefei, the custom of eating noodles in winter solstice is related to solar terms, climate and agriculture. After the solstice in winter, there are nine cold days, and every nine days, there are nine days. In the severe winter, eating a bowl of hot egg noodles is considered as the solstice of winter.

2. Old hen soup

The solstice of winter announced the real arrival of winter. Besides eating noodles in winter solstice, drinking old hen soup is also a habit handed down for many years, because China has the habit of tonic in winter solstice, and old hen soup has always been considered nutritious, but now that conditions are good, it is no longer a rare thing to drink old hen soup in winter solstice. But Anhui people still keep the habit of drinking old hen soup on the solstice of winter.

3.pumpkin baba

Peel the pumpkin, wash it, cut it into pieces, then cook it in a pot and mash it. Add seasoning and rice flour, stir well, and then knead the pumpkin paste into a Baba shape with a thickness of several centimeters. It is cooked and tastes salty and sweet. It is the favorite winter solstice food of Anhui people.

4. Red bean glutinous rice

According to legend, there was a man named Gong. His son was incompetent and evil. He died on the Winter Solstice. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so Anhui people cook red bean rice on the solstice in winter to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

5. Tangyuan

In Anhui, it is also essential to celebrate winter in jiaozi. Anhui's glutinous rice balls are too big to hold a second glutinous rice ball in the bowl, so before the arrival of the winter solstice, every household prepared a large portion of sesame noodles, just to come in handy on the winter solstice.