What do Koreans eat on the solstice in winter?

Koreans eat solstice red bean porridge in winter.

On this day, Koreans will also eat a specific food-the long-standing winter solstice red bean porridge. Korean folks call the winter solstice "pressing the year" or "off-year". From the perspective of Yin and Yang, after the winter solstice, Yin will gradually turn into Yang, which means that the sun is resurrected and indicates that a new year is coming. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "only eating winter solstice porridge is a year long".

Koreans have been eating whole grain rice for a long time. When Silla was in China, the 15th day of the first month was called "taboo day", and rice with five grains was used to worship crows. The article "shooting the piano box" recorded in the first volume of the History of the Three Kingdoms is the same as the content of folk sacrificial food. On the fifteenth day of the first month, farmers use glutinous rice, rhubarb rice, millet, sorghum rice and red beans to make five-grain rice and eat it.

Korean introduction

The largest inhabited area of Koreans is Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, which is located in the east of Jilin Province and at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea. It has jurisdiction over Yanji, Tumen, Longjing, Helong, Hunchun, Dunhua, Antu and Wangqing counties. Quanzhou covers an area of 42,700 square kilometers, accounting for about 1/4 of the total area of Jilin Province. It is located in Changbai Korean Autonomous County in the southeast of Jilin Province, which is another ethnic autonomous area of Korean nationality.

Korean region is a famous "land of rice" in northern China, and the famous Yanbian rice is crystal clear and fragrant. In the Qing Dynasty, the rice produced in Yanming Township, Longjing County, Yanbian, once named Gong Mi, was a famous "apple pear" in Yanbian, which was large in fruit, fleshy, small in stone, juicy and moderately sweet and sour. In addition, there are ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, Fritillaria, wild grape, Tricholoma matsutake, fungus and so on.

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