Are there any customs for the winter solstice? I heard there are dumplings, but my roommate said to buy soup dumplings! What are the winter solstice customs in Guangzhou?

Traditional winter solstice customs include praying for blessings, celebrating winter, reunions, and ancestor worship. "Fat winter and thin year" and "Winter solstice is a great year" are two proverbs that all Guangzhou people know since childhood. Guangzhou winter solstice customs are:

1, the winter solstice to eat dumplings

Winter solstice to eat dumplings, is China's traditional customs, in Guangdong is particularly prevalent. Folk have "eaten dumplings a year old" said. Guangzhou people also have a custom, that is, in the winter solstice day at noon, to make soup dumplings, the family ate together, to show reunion.

2, the winter solstice to eat barbecued pork

Winter solstice this day, most Cantonese people have a "dish" to eat the winter solstice meat custom. Among them, roasted meat is the Guangdong people winter solstice table essential traditional food. In addition to offering sacrifices to the ancestors, the whole family prepares a table of big fish and meat, preserved meat and sausage, and eats a meal with laughter, in order to pray for good luck and good fortune in the coming year.

3, winter solstice to eat glutinous rice

Winter solstice to eat glutinous rice means warmth, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year are "warm grain" (warm and baked). Cantonese sticky rice must have classic ingredients such as bacon and preserved sausage, which are the soul of the whole pot of sticky rice. Eating sticky rice will heat up your body, which will help to protect you from the cold and nourish you.

4, winter solstice drink duck soup

Guangdong winter solstice food and duck soup. Winter solstice is the most suitable for nourishment, the most suitable for dietary supplementation, if the winter solstice before the appropriate to eat angelica ginger lamb soup to fight against the yin, then, after the winter solstice can choose the old duck soup to nourish yin and moisten the dryness, to calm the body's heat.