What traditional food do you eat in winter in southern China?

In the winter in the south of Japan, we eat glutinous rice balls, roasted meat, sweet pills, nine-layer cakes, red bean glutinous rice, ginger and duck, rice cakes, winter wine making, edge-making stoves and so on. Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is a traditional custom in China, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". Tangyuan is also called jiaozi, and eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is also called "jiaozi on the winter solstice". Common materials for making glutinous rice balls are glutinous rice, sesame seeds and red beans.

Different areas in the south eat different foods from winter solstice, such as barbecue and ginger rice in Guangdong, rice cakes in Hangzhou, mutton soup in Sichuan, red beans and glutinous rice in Hunan and Hubei, and jiaozi in other areas from winter solstice.

On the day of winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of eating meat and "adding vegetables" in winter solstice. There is also a folk proverb in Chaoshan area, "Winter Festival Pills, once eaten, celebrate the New Year". Eating rice cakes from winter to morning in Hangzhou is a habit handed down from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty.

The winter solstice ball is also called the winter solstice ball, which means reunion. It is made of glutinous rice flour, such as skin, sugar, meat, vegetables, fruits, shredded radish and so on. And packaged into a winter solstice ball, which is not only eaten by family members, but also expresses their blessings to relatives and friends.