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Moral of eating dumplings at winter solstice

Winter solstice eating dumplings meaning

Winter solstice eating dumplings meaning, dumplings is our traditional food, in many important festivals we have the habit of eating dumplings, in the winter solstice day, most places in our country also retained the custom of eating dumplings, so the winter solstice to eat dumplings what is the meaning of.

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Eating dumplings is to look forward to the future life can be red-hot, the wealth of progress, because the dumplings are shaped like a Yuanbao, Yuanbao has the meaning of wealth, so eating dumplings have to discuss auspicious looking forward to the significance of the wealth of the people.

2, and beauty

Dumplings to "and" the surface, which has the meaning of and beauty, the dough rolled out into a round, rounded, rolled out the dumplings skin and prediction of the reunion of the round.

3. The dumplings eaten on the winter solstice with the dumpling filling also have a lot of connections with the symbolism, such as the ordinary leek filling symbolizes the meaning of long-term wealth.

4, family reunion

The winter solstice is the 24th solar term in China, and regional cultural differences in the diet of the winter solstice dumplings and summer solstice noodle custom. On this day, the family came together and sat together to make dumplings to talk about family life, giving the dumplings a symbol of reunion.

Dumplings are one of the traditional Chinese delicacies, and they are also a staple in the diet of people in the north, as well as a winter solstice snack. Dumplings are rich in style, substance and flavor, and are also available in cabbage and pork, celery and beef, shrimp, corn and pork, mutton, sanshen, leek and caper.

Winter solstice eating dumplings 'moral 2

The winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang, a blessing from heaven. Winter solstice health, all over China to eat dumplings has become the biggest custom, the northern region has the winter solstice slaughter sheep, eat dumplings, eat wontons custom, the southern region in this day has to eat the winter solstice rice dumplings, the winter solstice brewing habits. In today's Jiangnan area still have: eat the winter solstice night rice long a year old saying, commonly known as "Tim age".

Dumplings

Eat "pinch frozen ears" is the winter solstice in Henan people eat dumplings commonly known. The reason for this custom is that it's not a good idea to have a good time, but it's a good idea to have a good time. According to legend, the Nanyang medical saint Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, and he returned to his hometown at that time suitable for the snowy winter, the cold wind. He saw the villagers on both sides of the White River in Nanyang clothes, there are a lot of people's ears were frozen rotten, the heart is very sad, and asked his disciples in Nanyang Guandong set up a medical hut, with mutton, chili peppers and some cold-expelling medicinal herbs placed in a pot to cook, fish out and chopped up, wrapped in dough to look like an ear, and then put down in the pot to cook, made a kind of cold-expelling Ear Soup called and then put down the pot to cook, making a kind of medicine called "Cold Driving Ear Correction Soup" to give to the people to eat. After serving, the folks' ears were cured. Later, every winter solstice people will imitate to do to eat, the formation of "pinch frozen ears" such customs. Later, people called it "dumplings", and some call it "flat food" and "hot noodle dumplings", people also have legend eaten the winter solstice dumplings do not freeze.

The winter solstice has developed over thousands of years, creating a unique seasonal food culture. Eating dumplings has become a winter solstice custom for most Chinese.

Wonton

In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the north often harassed the border, and the people had no peace. At that time, there were two leaders of the Hun tribe, the Huns and the Tuns, who were very cruel. The people hated them so much that they wrapped them into horns with meat and took the sound of "Hun" and "Tun" and called them "Hundun". Hate to eat, and seek to quell the war, can live in peace. Because the first made wontons in the winter solstice this day, so in the winter solstice this day every family to eat wontons.

Wontons have evolved throughout the country and have become a popular and famous snack.

Soup dumplings

Eating soup dumplings is also one of the traditional customs of the winter solstice. Guangdong Chaoshan people call the winter solstice the Winter Festival. On the winter solstice, they also have the custom of eating soup dumplings, and there is "eat the winter festival round, even if a year (years)," meaning that, after eating the winter solstice soup dumplings, you will grow another year. The winter solstice custom of eating dumplings is especially prevalent in the southern part of the country. Jiangnan people in the winter solstice, commonly used glutinous rice flour made of dough, wrapped with meat, apples, bean paste, shredded radish and other fillings, made of soup dumplings. For the people of Jiangnan, "dumplings" is the winter solstice necessary food. Because "round" has the meaning of "reunion" and "completeness", eating soup dumplings at the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group", which symbolizes the hope for a happy family in the coming year. This implies the blessing of family reunion in the coming year.

The western region of Guangdong has the custom of making salted dumplings on the winter solstice, which are generally made of glutinous rice flour, roti, pangolin, garlic, parsley, and have a delicious flavor.

Mutton Soup

Liu Bang, the founder of Han Dynasty, ate the dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, and found the flavor especially delicious and praised it. Eating dog meat on the winter solstice has been spreading in the folklore ever since, and later on, it slowly changed from dog meat to mutton, so the custom of eating mutton soup on the winter solstice was widely spread.

In Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Xiaoguanmiao Mutton Soup Street, diners meet three or five friends or family members to taste mutton soup.

Mochi

Mochi is a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, as well as a traditional snack for Fujianese. Its raw materials are good glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut kernels, rock sugar and so on. Mochi is sweet and tasty, hunger-resistant after eating, with a sweet, smooth texture, the finished product is bright white in color, smooth and transparent.

In the mountainous countryside of northern Guangxi Quanzhou County, urban and rural areas are filled with the aroma of mochi, the local people have a tradition of playing mochi at the winter solstice, which is a gift to relatives during the Spring Festival.

The freshly cooked dumplings are mixed with sesame bean powder and sugar, also known as mochi. Villagers of Xiyuan Village, Xindian Town, Jin'an District, Fuzhou City, roll soup dumplings at a winter solstice folk event.

Brewing

The Gusu region attaches great importance to the winter solstice festival, and there is a saying in the Gusu region that says, "The winter solstice is like a big year." Traditionally, people in Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, which is a kind of rice wine brewed with osmanthus flowers and has a pleasant aroma. The people of Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice with various kinds of marinated vegetables such as marinated beef and marinated mutton. In the cold winter, winter wine not only drives away the cold, but also sends the Gusu people a kind of good wish for life.

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Traditional Winter Solstice Activities :

1, painting nine

The so-called painting nine, in fact, is the winter solstice after the calculation of the date of the spring chart. The Ming Dynasty, "Emperor's Capital Scenery", "winter solstice, painting a branch of plum, for the petal eighty a. The day dyeing a petal, petal exhaustion. Day dyeing a petal, petal end and nine out, the spring is deep, said nine nine to eliminate cold map. "Nine nine cold map" has three patterns, respectively, for the text, circles, plum blossoms three.

2, brewing rice wine

The traditional Gusu family, will drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, winter wine with glutinous rice or yellow rice, add cinnamon brewing.

3, eat dumplings

Eating dumplings is a traditional winter solstice custom, especially prevalent in Jiangnan. "Soup dumplings" is the winter solstice necessary food, "round" means "reunion" "complete", winter solstice eat soup dumplings and called "winter solstice round". called "winter solstice round". The folk have "eaten the dumplings a year old said".

4, eat roasted meat and ginger rice

Some places in the south of the winter solstice to eat roasted meat, winter solstice this day, the sun made good roasted meat has become an indispensable delicacy on the table of the two sides of Guangdong, implying that the addition of vegetables to add the year. Winter solstice, Wuchuan people have winter solstice "eat ginger rice" custom.

5, eat dumplings

In many areas of northern China, every year on the winter solstice, the custom of eating dumplings. China's northern regions in this day to eat dumplings because dumplings have "eliminate cold" meaning, and still folklore is still circulating "winter solstice do not end the bowl of dumplings, freezing off the ears of no one cares about," the folk proverb.

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