What to eat on winter solstice

What to eat on the winter solstice

1, dumplings

Proverb: "October 1, the winter solstice to, families eat dumplings." This custom is in honor of the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing winter solstice medicine. This custom is left behind in honor of Zhang Zhongjing, the "Sage of Medicine," who gave medicine on the winter solstice.

According to legend, the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing returned to his hometown when he sued for old age to return to Nanyang, in the snowy winter, he saw a lot of Nanyang folks were frozen ears, heart very sad, and asked his disciples in Nanyang Guandong set up a medical shed, with mutton, chili peppers and a number of cold-expelling medicinal herbs placed in a pot to cook, fish out and chopped up, wrapped in a pastry like an ear like the appearance of the ears, and then put down in the pot to cook and make a kind of cold-expelling medicine called "correcting ear soup". Jiao ear soup" medicine alms to the people to eat. After serving, the folks' ears were cured. Later, every winter solstice, people would imitate the cooking and eating, so the custom of eating dumplings was formed.

2, wontons

The old Beijing in the past, "winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles," said. 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 of wontons is in the winter solstice this day, in the winter solstice this day every family to eat wontons.

3, eat mutton

The custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice is said to have begun in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, ate mutton cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, and found the flavor particularly delicious and praised it. From then on, the custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice was formed in folklore. Nowadays, people have to eat dog meat, mutton and all kinds of nourishing food on the winter solstice, in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

4, soup dumplings

Soup dumplings is the winter solstice necessary food. This is a kind of round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, "round" means reunion, complete, the winter solstice to eat soup dumplings also called "winter solstice group". There is an old poem that says: "Every family pounded rice to make soup dumplings, knowing that it is the winter solstice day of the Ming Dynasty."

Southern region folk proverb: "winter festival is as big as the year", "winter festival did not return no ancestors". Means that people out, to the winter solstice this day in any case to rush home to worship the ancestors, otherwise there is no concept of ancestral home. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, are very important to the winter solstice, the winter solstice as a reunion festival.

5, Jiangnan rice

In the water towns of Jiangnan, there is the winter solstice night the whole family gathered together *** to eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. Legend has it that, *** Gong's not talented son, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, after death into the epidemic ghost, continue to brutalize the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of adzuki beans, so people cook and eat adzuki bean rice on the winter solstice this day, to drive away the epidemic ghosts, disaster prevention and relief.

6, Suzhou wine

Gusu region has a proverb: "winter solstice such as the 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 out a kind of beautiful prayer to the life of Gusu people.

7, Jiangxi Mochi

Mochi, a specialty of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, is also a traditional snack of the Fujian people, Fujian people offerings at the time of sacrifice. Ma Zhi Yin dry after steaming, frying, fire grilled, sand fried are suitable. Mochi is sweet and savory, hunger-resistant after eating, has a sweet, slippery texture, and is soft, tough and slightly icy. The finished product is bright white in color, smooth and transparent.

8, Taiwan glutinous cake

In Taiwan, China also preserved the winter solstice with nine layers of cake ancestral tradition, with glutinous rice flour pinched chicken, duck, turtle, pig, cow, sheep and other symbols of good luck in the meaning of Fortune and longevity of the animals, and then steamed in layers with a steamer to sacrifice to the ancestors to show that we do not forget the old ancestors.