Why do you eat Ciba in early winter?

The custom of eating Ciba in early winter

In Zhangzhou, Fujian, at the beginning of winter, farmers usually make a snack called "Jiaodong Year". This snack is made of glutinous rice, soaked and steamed in a steamer, and then quickly put in a stone spoon until the cotton becomes soft and elastic. Finally, make the rice paste into various balls while it is hot, put them in a plate where sesame, soybean or peanut are fried and ground into powder and mixed with sugar, and roll them to eat. People in Zhangzhou use this snack to worship gods and ancestors and celebrate the bumper harvest of crops.

In early winter, in Shaxian, the hometown of snacks, rural people will make Ciba and dried salted duck on this day. Ciba is to put the cooked glutinous rice into a stone mortar, hammer it repeatedly, rub it into a ball, and eat it with bean powder with white sugar, which is very sweet. At the beginning of winter, people make glutinous rice to celebrate the harvest and hope that life will be better in the coming year.