Shantou has its own unique way to celebrate festivals and its own food culture. The market with the most fireworks is the most popular when it is held. It has been a sea of people since two days before the festival, and the dazzling array of ingredients is dizzying. The ingredients snapped up in each holiday are different, and the price of ingredients skyrocketed before falling back after the holiday.
3. In addition to offering sacrifices, Shantou Winter Festival also needs to eat winter festival pills and tonics. Winter solstice (winter festival) is the beginning of winter on September 9. There are Shantou people who are good at diet therapy. On this day, mutton, pigeons and chicken have long been snapped up, and the stewed medicated diet is also prepared by the chef himself. Such as black-bone chicken and ginseng soup, pilose antler and ginseng, astragalus and red jujube chicken soup, angelica and mutton hot pot and so on.