Winter solstice is coming, 8 kinds of traditional food don't forget to eat, nutritious and healthy, meaning peace and good luck!

It's almost time for the winter solstice, the winter solstice is one of the most important of the twenty-four seasons, but also a traditional folk festival, since ancient times, there is a "winter solstice is as big as the year," said. Entering the winter solstice means that the coldest days of the year will soon arrive. Winter solstice, folk have many different customs, the northern families have to wrap dumplings, the South relative to the North is more important, generally want to organize ancestor worship, banquets and other activities, due to the different dietary habits of different regions, winter solstice this day, people have to eat 8 kinds of traditional food, the following to learn more about it.

Dumplings in the minds of people in the north of the status is unshakeable, must eat dumplings on New Year's Day. On the day of the winter solstice, every family has to make dumplings to eat. Dumplings have the meaning of "cross", in ancient times, the winter solstice festival is equivalent to the Spring Festival, the day before the winter solstice is the end of the year, so the winter solstice means the change of the old and the new, and eat dumplings have the meaning of the old and welcome the new.

The winter solstice weather in the north is extremely cold, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing resigned from his post to return to his hometown, coinciding with the winter solstice period, he saw a lot of people with yellow skin, hunger and cold, ear frostbite, and then chopped up mutton, wrapped in dough into the shape of a "delicate ear", and then cook a bowl of cold soup for everyone to eat, and soon the people's frostbite! Soon people's frostbite was cured. Since then, the saying of eating dumplings on the winter solstice has been passed down to this day.

Nowadays, there are still many kinds of dumplings, such as pork and mushroom stuffing, peppers and pork stuffing, cabbage and pork stuffing, celery and pork stuffing, beef and onion stuffing, tripe stuffing, leek and egg stuffing, etc. Dumplings are rich in nutrients and delicious, and eating them at the winter solstice can help you strengthen your body to withstand the cold.

The status of dumplings in the minds of southerners, just like the dumplings in the north, many important festivals in the south are to eat dumplings. Soup dumplings symbolize reunion and family harmony, and people eat them on important holidays for good luck. Glutinous rice has the effect of strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, and the texture is delicate and soft, many people like to eat, with glutinous rice ground into powder, wrapped with different fillings, made into soup dumplings, nutritious and good meaning.

The traditional dumplings have black sesame filling, peanut filling, bean paste filling, white sugar filling, fruit filling and other sweet flavors, but there are also places that like to eat savory dumplings, such as mushrooms filled with meat, meat filled with preserved vegetables and so on.

Rice cakes, like soup dumplings, are one of the must-have foods for Chinese New Year celebrations in many places. Rice cakes have the symbolism of "rising year after year", and since the Winter Solstice is traditionally equal to the Chinese New Year, rice cakes are eaten just like the Chinese New Year. There are many kinds of rice cakes, and the traditional way is to steam the glutinous rice, then pound it repeatedly to form a cake, and then cut it into small pieces, which can be eaten directly, dipped in brown sugar, peanut powder, soybean powder, deep-fried, sautéed, stir-fried, or shabu-shabu in hot pot. The rice cakes are soft and delicate, and you can't get enough of them.

Roasted pork is a traditional Cantonese dish popular in the Guangdong region. In the earliest days, it was differentiated between "roast" and "pork", but nowadays it is called "roast pork". Roasted meat in the "roast" is generally a variety of meat marinated in a secret sauce for a period of time, and then put into the oven to bake, such as roasted goose, roasted duck, roasted pigeon, roasted suckling pig, the taste is slightly with the sweet taste of the Guangdong people love, is the old broad memory of the deep food. The "preserved meat" in "roasted meat" refers to preserved meat, preserved sausage, preserved duck, preserved meat, preserved chicken, and so on. In Guangdong, all kinds of festivals are inseparable from the barbecue, full of a large table, it is called a fragrance.

Ring rounds, also known as the "winter solstice round", is a traditional cuisine in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, it is similar to the dumplings and rice cakes, are made of glutinous rice. Glutinous rice flour and water and made into a dough, steamed on the pot, rolled into a small round, and then wrapped in a layer of brown sugar soybean powder, or dipped in sesame, peanuts, cinnamon and so on. In Taizhou where every family winter solstice festival to do ring round, ring round taste delicate and soft, sweet and soft, round appearance, symbolizing the family reunion.

Wine is a kind of sweet rice wine fermented from glutinous rice mixed with wine leaven, also known as mash, wine lees, glutinous rice wine, etc. Wine is made from glutinous rice fermented with wine leaven. The wine is fermented from glutinous rice, slightly sweet, rice flavor is relatively strong, the wine is more nutritious, winter eating can make up for the blood, especially women. Many areas in the south of the winter solstice festival have the habit of eating wine, usually with wine as a soup base, made into desserts, such as wine dumplings, wine eggs, wine milk, etc., wine can promote blood circulation, have the effect of driving cold, winter solstice weather is cold, eat some of the benefits are still very much.

The custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice was passed down in the Han Dynasty, according to legend, Liu Bang, the founder of Han Gaozu, liked to eat mutton on the winter solstice, so it has been passed down to the people. Shandong Tengzhou area, there is a winter solstice to drink mutton soup habit, mutton has a warm, cold effect, the old saying that "the winter solstice to make up for the end of the year, the next year without disease.

Tengzhou's mutton soup is mainly with sheep scorpion to cook the soup base, the mutton and mutton into the mutton bone soup together, cooked and then fished up drained and chopped, mutton soup into a bowl, plus chopped mutton and mutton, sprinkled with chopped green onions and parsley, a big bowl of steaming hot, with chili oil, pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., a bowl of fresh and nutritious mutton soup on the ready, winter eating nutritional cold, the whole body are! Warm.

Winter solstice noodles is the custom of many places in the north, the old saying "ate the winter solstice noodles, a year long a line", means that, after the winter solstice, every day after the day is getting longer and longer, the night is getting shorter and shorter. The practice of winter solstice noodles does not have many requirements, according to the local food habits, such as Beijing's fried noodles, Henan chow mein, fish noodles, Lanzhou's beef noodles, Shanxi's knife-shaved noodles, Sichuan dan dan noodles, Wuhan hot dry noodles and so on. The noodle practice is ever-changing, a bowl of hot soup noodles, can be served with beef, eggs, prawns, ham, green vegetables, etc., a variety of ingredients can be, the noodles are nutritious and good digestion, winter eat warm body and stomach.