Zhejiang Yueqing winter solstice folk activities

Winter Solstice in our country has a history of more than 2,500 years, folk around the long years, but also gradually formed a number of local characteristics of the winter solstice folklore, then let for you to introduce the Zhejiang Yueqing winter solstice folklore activities are what?

Eating dumplings

On the winter solstice, people in Yueqing have the habit of eating dumplings or mochi. Elders will take advantage of the children to eat soup dumplings for tutoring, such as eating soup dumplings will be a year older, to advise the child to be more obedient, and all things should be done better than last year.

Selling mochi

Whenever there is a winter festival around the time, there will be some people selling mochi on the streets of Yueqing. These people are generally from the suburbs of the countryside, they are home beforehand will be boiled and pinched into a ball of powder, and then with a little sugar, bean paste powder, all the way to sell, sell and do, skillful, a mochi by hands a turn, into the inside of the hollow, the outside of the smooth, like ping-pong balls like mochi ball, and then stick on the sugar and bean paste, the flavor is sweet.

Returning Heavenly Wishes

Some people in the Yueqing area also hold a ceremony to return Heavenly Wishes on the winter solstice. At the beginning of the year, if some of the wishes made are realized, they must be returned on this day. So Yueqing people evaluation of a person lazy, do things with no color, will use the word wish to irony, such as how you people do things wishing Nim, a little bit of energy is not.

This is also called a hundred wishes, which means that when you wish to end up with a hundred rice to return. A hundred rice refers to the use of a hundred families of rice to make up, so as to prove the return of a hundred wishes. But this hundred meters from where to put together?

It is said that the winter solstice this day, beggars most eat open, because only their hands can be used as a hundred meters of rice, so some people will spend a high price to buy the beggar's rice as a worship to return the use of the wish.