What food do Cantonese people eat on the winter solstice

Winter solstice Cantonese people eat soup dumplings, steamed muffins, water olives, playing side dishes, glutinous rice chicken.

1, soup dumplings

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional custom on the winter solstice, and it is also more prevalent in Guangzhou. In addition to eating soup dumplings, on the winter solstice, Guangzhou people also used to eat glutinous rice. Eating soup dumplings on the winter solstice symbolizes family reunion, family harmony and good fortune. Glutinous rice means warmth, eat the whole body "warm", plus pork, squid, shrimp and other ingredients, a bowl of rice can carry a whole winter of abundance.

2, steamed cake

In Foshan, the winter solstice day, every family early in the morning to kill chickens to prepare dishes, fruits to worship ancestors, steamed "cake". "Muffin" is a kind of rice flour fermentation made of pastries, steamed with a lot of fine holes, the whole pastry will be fluffy. Muffin has the good intention of high rise and big hair, the muffin is generally used in the day of the winter solstice ancestor together with the plate, so the winter solstice to eat "steamed muffin" is the Foshan people over the winter solstice is one of the indispensable links.

3, water olive

Zhongshan Xiaolan winter solstice have eaten "water olive" custom, Xiaolan's "dumplings" is not round, like an olive, so it is called "water olive", in fact, it is a kind of meat made of chrysanthemums. In fact, it is a kind of glutinous rice dumplings with chrysanthemum meat as filling, and the filling is usually lotus seed paste or green bean paste with some chrysanthemum meat added. Shui Lan is a festive food that warms the body and symbolizes good health.

4, playing side stove

Shunde people also "sitting around the playing side stove winter solstice". On the winter solstice, families get together and have a feast around the stove. Boil a pot of chicken soup as a base, or salt water with white rice to cook a pot of smooth congee base, with chicken, beef, fish and various vegetables, everyone around the hot stove, talk about, is the old year of personnel, things. The symbolism of eating the hot pot is: under the warm light, there is the whispering of the family, and the family stays together in peace and security!

5, Glutinous Rice Chicken

Glutinous Rice Chicken is one of the traditional foods of Guangdong winter solstice. It is made of glutinous rice and chicken, which is soft and flavorful. In Guangdong, people like to eat glutinous rice chicken on the winter solstice to symbolize reunion and family harmony.