What are the customs of Maoming winter solstice

Maoming people on the winter solstice will slaughter chickens and ducks to buy pork home, cleaned and cooked, sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and one is to do the quail to eat quail.

The winter solstice is here again, winter northern hemisphere throughout the year the shortest day, the longest night day. Since then the day is longer than one day, Yang Qi rebound, heaven and earth Yang Qi began to Xing do gradually strong, representing the beginning of the next cycle. The ancestors of most people in Maoming moved here from Fujian Province, and after hundreds of years of stormy weather, they survived in this black mud and yellow land in western Guangdong, fighting against natural disasters and creating their own way of survival.

Maoming people do the winter solstice, one is to comfort their year of hard labor, food harvest, and the second is to be grateful to heaven and earth, thanks to the blessings of the gods. On the day of the winter solstice, they will slaughter chickens, kill ducks, buy pork back, clean up and cook it, sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, and another is to make and eat quail. People in Maoming do quail different places and have different tastes, Xinyi City, Gaozhou City, Huazhou City, electric white people's tastes are different.

Traditional customs

Maoming City, Xinyi, Gaozhou, Huazhou, the northern mountainous areas of the people like to do the most or boiled quail, boiled quail ingredients according to their own tastes, the ordinary people are leeks, pork, shrimp, peanuts, mushrooms, and other fillings, glutinous rice flour to do the quail skin packages, wrapped up into the chicken broth to boil the quail, plus a little green onion, don't have a taste. It has a special flavor.

This kind of quail is specially made for the elderly to wish for longevity, the moral is to bless the elderly to prolong life. This quail in Gaozhou, Huazhou people do more, we always love to do happy events in the quail, with chrysanthemums on a red dot, in order to aspire to good luck. Maoming people generally new homes into the house, marriage or do "cattle a", are doing peach peach or buy peach peach peach to "do tian", distributed to relatives and friends to eat, to pass on the joy of celebrations.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Maoming City