Winter solstice must eat ten food

The top ten foods you must eat on the winter solstice are: dumplings, soup dumplings, egg noodles, mutton soup, round dumplings, mochi, winter wine, glutinous rice with red beans, nine-layer cake, and sweet potato soup fruit.

1, dumplings

Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, rich or poor, dumplings are essential holiday meal. Proverb: "October 1, the winter solstice to, families eat dumplings." This custom is left behind in honor of Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, who gave medicine on the winter solstice.

2, dumplings

The winter solstice to eat dumplings, especially prevalent in Jiangnan. Folk have "eaten the dumplings a year old" said. Soup dumplings, also known as soup dumplings, eat soup dumplings on the winter solstice is also known as the "winter solstice group". Winter solstice dumplings can be used to offer sacrifices to ancestors, but also can be used to give gifts to friends and relatives.

3, egg noodles

Eating winter solstice noodles is the custom of winter solstice in northern Anhui. "Winter solstice noodles", commonly known as "hanging noodles", is one of the noodles, the Department of local traditional handmade. The handmade noodles are made from top quality wheat.

4, mutton soup

The custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice is said to have begun in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, ate mutton cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice and found the flavor particularly delicious and praised it. Since then, the custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice has been formed in folklore.

5, ring round

Ring round is the main event of the winter solstice, "round" means "reunion", "complete! "Round" means "reunion", "complete", compared with the usual eaten dumplings, Linhai people's winter solstice round is not only rich in content, different forms, but also means a lot.

6, mochi

Mochi is a famous snack in southern Fujian, which is most famous in Southampton Yingdu production, the raw materials for the good glutinous rice, lard, sesame seeds, peanut kernels, rock sugar and so on. Mochi is sweet and savory, hunger-resistant after eating, has a sweet, slippery taste, and soft, tough, slightly icy. The finished product is bright white in color, smooth and transparent.

7, winter wine

Traditionally, people in Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, which is a kind of rice wine brewed with osmanthus flowers and has a pleasant aroma. Winter wine is piled up like a mountain in supermarkets along the streets of the ancient city of Suzhou, where it is brewed only once a year and is fragrant with osmanthus flowers and sweet and refreshing.

8, red beans and glutinous rice

In the water towns of Jiangnan, there is the winter solstice night the whole family gathered *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. According to legend, there is a man called **** Gong's, his son is not talented, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, after death into the epidemic ghost, continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost was most afraid of red beans.

9, nine-layer cake

Nine-layer cake is a kind of sweet rice cake, the workmanship is exquisite. Folk with white rice soaked, with a stone mill into a water powder, stirred into a pulp, add sugar water, with a copper plate to put a thin layer of water powder, heating and steaming, and then layer by layer to add powder to nine layers. The steamed nine-layer cake is distinctly layered, soft, smooth and delicious.

10, sweet potato soup fruit

In the traditional custom of Ningbo, sweet potato soup fruit is one of the winter solstice must eat food. The word "pang" and "turn" have the same sound, and in the understanding of Ningbo people, eating sweet potatoes at the winter solstice is to "turn" all the bad luck of the past year.