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

The solstice in winter is a proverb that Cantonese people have heard since childhood. For Cantonese, the solstice in winter is a very important festival. Every winter, Guangdong will eat some traditional foods from the solstice. Let's see what they have. See below for details.

1, chicken and duck pot "celebrate the New Year in winter" and "fat winter and lean year" are big proverbs that Guangzhou people have heard since childhood. On the solstice of winter in Guangzhou, people usually pack jiaozi, kill chickens and ducks, and sit around with their families for a big meal.

2. The stove is actually a stove, a famous dish of the Han nationality, full of color, flavor and taste. In Shunde, the family spent the winter solstice sitting around the hearth, pinning the hope of a round, warm and good winter, hoping that the family would be safe and healthy and welcome the Spring Festival!

3. The "tangyuan" in the water blue Zhongshan is not round, like an olive, so it is called "water blue". The stuffing is usually lotus seed paste or mung bean paste, with some chrysanthemum meat.

4. Salted jiaozi Yangjiang people will pack salty jiaozi on the solstice in winter, which is a local traditional food, meaning "family reunion, happiness". Yangjiang people call jiaozi "dumplings", which is different from ordinary jiaozi. The stuffing is not wrapped in jiaozi, but jiaozi is cut into powder, cooked in soup and cooked together after smelling the fragrance.

Hakka people who cook mutton with wine call the solstice of winter "overwintering". According to the custom, every household should have a good meal. Around the winter solstice, Hakka people in Meizhou like to eat mutton and cook wine, which is considered to be beneficial to their health during the winter solstice. Therefore, boiled mutton with wine has become a seasonal food for Hakkas in winter. Besides, it is also one of the most important customs in Meizhou to brew Niangjiu on this day. This custom has been circulating for thousands of years and still prevails today. In the early morning of winter solstice, many villagers are busy brewing Hakka Niang wine at home. Hakka people think that the water tastes the most mellow on the solstice in winter.

6. Winter dumplings are a traditional food that people must eat during the winter solstice (commonly known as "beginning of winter"), which consists of glutinous rice skin and stuffing. The stuffing of winter dumplings usually takes plum beans as the main raw material, and peanuts and other materials are added, which are divided into sweet and salty flavors. Jiaozi needs to be oiled in winter, then padded with banana leaves and steamed in a steamer.

7. Love pepper is a traditional snack of Guangdong Han nationality, belonging to Cantonese cuisine. The main raw materials for making mugwort are mugwort and glutinous rice flour. Making "Artemisia argyi" is the most important step: first, take local wild Artemisia argyi, add water to boil it, and then grind it into velvet with bamboo baskets to make edible Artemisia argyi. After that, the mixed rice noodles are made into vermicelli, filled with salty and sweet materials, and wrapped into horns. Most of the mugwort used in Huizhou in winter is salty, and the traditional materials are mostly shredded radish, lard residue, shrimp head, spiced powder and so on. It can be eaten after steaming.