Why do people in Guangzhou say "Chinese New Year is celebrated on the solstice in winter"

Cantonese people have a traditional saying that the solstice in winter is the New Year. Winter solstice is a very important solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Once upon a time, Cantonese people who were wandering abroad would return to Solstice every winter to reunite with their families. Today, in the hearts of thousands of people in Qian Qian, the solstice of winter is still an important day.

On this day, no matter how busy, the whole family will sit around a table and eat a sumptuous meal. In this traditional festival, eating a traditional dish is more intimate.

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After thousands of years of development, a unique seasonal diet culture has been formed from winter solstice to Sunday. Such as wonton, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, red bean porridge, millet and rice cakes. Can be used as new year's goods. The once popular "Winter Solstice Day Annual Banquet" has many names, such as eating winter solstice meat, offering winter solstice dishes, offering winter solstice groups, and worshiping winter with wonton.

There is a custom of eating wonton on the solstice in winter. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, people in Lin 'an ate wonton on the solstice in winter, initially as a sacrifice to their ancestors, and then gradually became popular. Han people have a saying that "we eat solstice wonton in winter and solstice noodles in summer". Today, wonton has become a famous snack with many kinds, different productions and delicious taste all over the country, which is deeply loved by people.

Eating jiaozi is also a traditional custom from winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an essential food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "the winter solstice group". There is a saying among the Han people that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". The winter solstice group can be used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. In the past, Shanghainese were most particular about eating jiaozi. An ancient poem said, "Every family beats rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty."

In many places in the north, there is a custom of eating dog meat and mutton from winter to Sunday, because the weather enters the coldest period from winter to the future. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have aphrodisiac and tonic effects, and Han people also have the custom of tonic in winter solstice.

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