What traditional foods do Minnan people eat on the solstice in winter?

1, glutinous rice balls. Quanzhou has the custom of eating dumplings, which means that the whole family is full all year round and carries good wishes for the future. People in Quanzhou eat pills, and the winter festival is called "head pill (round)" and "tail pill (round)".

2. Nine-layer cake. In Fujian and Taiwan, a unique winter solstice custom has been formed. In China, there is still a tradition of offering nine-layer cakes to ancestors from winter to daily use. Animals such as chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep, etc., which symbolize good luck, are steamed in layers in a steamer to show that they do not forget their ancestors.

3. meter hours. "Rice food" and "Ciba" are both special foods in Fujian during the winter solstice festival, while Fuzhou generally uses rice paste to rub directly, which is called "rice food". "Rice food" and "Ciba" in Fuzhou folk customs are actually two different foods. In the winter solstice festival, the folk connotation of "rice food" is richer than that of "Ciba".

4. Ginger Duck. Xiamen people have a soft spot for ducks. They eat ducks, salted ducks, sauced ducks, roast ducks and four kinds of marinated ducks all year round, and eat ginger ducks in the winter solstice custom. Ginger duck is made of muscovy duck with red face and red ears, fried duck meat with incense, and stewed with ginger and rice wine.

5, rubbing pills. Traditional folk food customs are popular in Fujian and other places. A few days before the winter solstice, glutinous rice was ground and dried in the sun. On the night before the winter solstice, prepare a pair of candles, 65,438+00 oranges (each with paper flowers), a pair of chopsticks and two garlic sprouts, put them on the display tray and put them on the table in nave. Before the case, there were two fairy elephant display combinations, with water chrysanthemums in bottles.