What are the customs of Gansu winter solstice festival (what are the customs of southern winter solstice festival)

1. What are the customs of the southern winter solstice festival?

2. What are the customs of the winter solstice festival?

3. What is the traditional custom of the winter solstice festival?

4. What are the customs of the winter solstice festival?

1. Ancestor worship: In some areas, the traditional custom of ancestor worship has continued. Every family provides ancestral statues, memorial tablets, tables, incense burners and offerings at home.

2. Eat the winter solstice ball: Eating the winter solstice ball is very popular in some areas in the south, which means reunion. Every winter solstice morning, every household should grind glutinous rice flour and wrap it into winter solstice balls, which are not only eaten by their own families, but also given to relatives and friends to express their feelings.

3. Eat rice cakes: make rice cakes with different flavors from winter to Sunday every year, eat rice cakes from winter to Sunday, and grow old slowly.

4. Nine-layer cake for ancestor worship: Knead glutinous rice flour into auspicious animals such as chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows and sheep, and steam them in layers in a steamer to show that they don't forget their ancestors.

5. Drink mutton soup: It is said that the custom of eating mutton from Sunday to winter began in the Han Dynasty. Before the festival, the elders will be given mutton and other gifts, and every household in Fujiu will drink mutton soup, which is a good sign for individuals, elders and families.