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Use glutinous rice flour and flour, and wrap it with sugar, meat, apples, bean paste, shredded radish and sesame seeds. Eating jiaozi from winter solstice is also called "Winter solstice group", and there is another folk saying that "eating jiaozi is one year older".
2. Sweet white wine
On the solstice of winter, there will be a cup of sweet white wine on the table of Nantong people. Sweet liquor is a kind of distiller's grains. Soak the rice, cook it, steam it thoroughly, sprinkle a little cold water and sweet wine koji, and brew it in a warm and dry place!
3, eight-treasure porridge
Nantong people also have the habit of eating eight-treasure porridge from winter to Sunday. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a son named Gong, who was ignorant and evil, and later died in the winter. Become a plague ghost after death. This ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice on the solstice in winter to drive away ghosts and evil souls and prevent disasters and diseases.
4. Flower cake
Flower cake is made of rice flour, bean flour, etc. It is fermented with jujube, chestnut, almond and other fruit capsules and steamed with sugar. In the past, in winter solstice family banquets, in addition to newly brewed sweet white wine and glutinous rice balls, newly steamed flower cakes were also essential seasonal foods.
5. Mutton
Nantong people want to eat mutton for health on the solstice in winter, or take mutton to a hot pot.