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What are the customs of the snow festival

1, winter drinking chicken soup. Winter custom is to drink chicken soup in the south and eat dumplings in the north. Winter tonic, drink chicken soup is the best way. According to folklore, in the winter solstice this day to drink chicken soup, can make up for a year. Northern winter season to eat dumplings, dumplings are derived from the "time of the cross," said the winter is the turn of the fall and winter seasons, so the "cross" the time of the dumplings can not be eaten.

2, Snow eat mochi. Patty is a traditional food in the South, the day of the Snow Festival, in some parts of the South has the custom of eating patties, patties are steamed and mashed with glutinous rice made of a food, the shape varies, and some places patties are round, symbolizing a good harvest, festive and reunion. 3, snow cured meat. As the saying goes, "before the New Year, the first fat roof". That is to say that during the snowy season, people began to pickle meat, many houses will be hung on the door, window sill pickled meat, sausage, salted fish and other pickles, forming a very bright landscape. But this meat is to wait until the New Year in eating. The snowy season can eat the food, eat caramel, drink sweet potato porridge, eat radish round and so on.

4, winter solstice to eat dumplings & soup dumplings. Winter solstice is a big festival, there is a "winter solstice is as big as the year" said. So the custom of this day with the New Year is almost the same, the north to eat dumplings, the south to eat dumplings. "If you don't serve dumplings on the winter solstice, no one will care if you freeze your ears off. In the north, eating dumplings on this day is a must. In the south, we eat soup dumplings on the winter solstice, also known as "winter solstice dumplings". The "winter solstice dough" can be used to worship ancestors, can also be used to give each other friends and relatives.

5, small cold to eat vegetables and rice. To the small cold, the old Nanjing will generally cook vegetables and rice to eat, vegetables and rice content is not the same, there is a short foot yellow cabbage and salted meat, sausage slices or board duck ding, and then chopped on some ginger and glutinous rice with the grain to cook, very fresh and tasty. Among them, the short-footed yellow, sausage, duck are Nanjing's famous specialty, can be said to be the real "Nanjing vegetable rice", and even comparable to Lapa congee. This vegetable rice also has different names in different regions, some places called "salty rice", some places called "salty broken rice". Some places, and because of the use of seafood called "seafood rice".