What custom foods do you eat in Guangdong on the solstice of winter?

1. Tangyuan is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China. Since the Song Dynasty, people in China have eaten glutinous rice balls at the Lantern Festival. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan people still worship their ancestors and stoves with glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter. Lu Gu recorded in Volume XI of Jia Qinglu (1830): "Bihu grinds flour into balls, because it contains sugar, meat, cowpea paste and shredded reed, so it is called' Winter Solstice Ball'.

2. Roasted meat is a traditional dish of Han nationality, which is full of color, flavor and taste. On the day of winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of eating meat and "adding vegetables" in winter solstice. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. The whole family prepared some bacon and sausages to eat after paying homage to their ancestors, hoping to come to lucky strike next year.

3. Nine-layer cake is one of the special pastry snacks in China, and Taiwan Province Province still retains the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors from winter to daily use. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals symbolizing good luck, and steamed in layers in a steamer to show respect for ancestors.

Ciba is very popular in some areas in the south. According to the tradition of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Ciba will be held on the solstice in winter, and many people participate in it, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba from the winter solstice. And whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, we should make Ciba. So in our hometown, Ciba is called "Big Ciba", and now jiaozi is called "Little Ciba" with a little disdain.