What traditional food does Guangzhou eat on the solstice in winter?

Guangzhou eats traditional barbecue on the solstice in winter.

It is reported that on the winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat from the winter solstice. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. After offering sacrifices to ancestors, the whole family prepared a table of big fish, big meat and bacon sausages, and ate a meal with laughter, praying for good luck in the coming year.

Some Cantonese also have the custom of sending bacon to relatives and friends on the solstice in winter. To this end, supermarkets have carefully set up a thriving sausage shop, which is filled with all kinds of bacon, sausages, cured ducks, ham, bacon and so on. Not only in bulk, but also in bags, so that the public can get what they need.

Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is a traditional custom in China, especially in Guangdong. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". There is also a custom in Guangzhou, that is, at noon from the winter solstice, the whole family will make dumplings to show their reunion.

In winter, we eat Ciba on the solstice.

There are many records about winter solstice cakes in Lingnan literature. For example, Qu Dajun's "Yue Xin Yu" said: "The solstice in winter is the winter pill of rice." Gan Long's Guangdong Tongzhi said: "The solstice in winter is a winter feast." Chen Li's "Xiangshan County Records" said: "When you cook cage cakes on the winter solstice, the biggest one must be several meters. Those who cook with sugar are called sweet cakes, otherwise they are called white cakes; Boiling bean shell ash and powder is called alkali cake; Yellow leaf juice and powder cookers are called yellow leaf cakes; Cooking glutinous rice for rice, making cakes is white. " One kind of pastry mentioned in these documents is called "Zi", and in some places it is also called Zi.

The specific method is: first cook the glutinous rice into rice, and then put the glutinous rice into a wok to boil. You know, glutinous rice is sticky, it takes a long time to cook, and it is very fine and porcelain, and no particles can be seen. In this way, you have to be a strong man and take turns to change shifts.

Therefore, it is not winter leisure, there are two main festivals, the winter solstice and China New Year. Ordinary people will never do it easily, and then use a wooden mold to press out a cake with a diameter of 20 cm. This is Ciba.