What food do you usually eat in winter from the solstice to the south?
1, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, red beans and glutinous rice. Most southerners eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. Among the people, it is said that jiaozi is one year older than Tangyuan, so a large number of southerners eat Tangyuan on the solstice in winter. Tangyuan can be used to worship ancestors or given to friends. Even in some places in the south, there is a custom of eating red beans and glutinous rice from winter solstice.
2.dog meat. Hangzhou people in Jiangnan area. In the first few years, I used to eat dog meat in the winter of solstice, because after the winter of solstice, I entered a cold period. Eating dog meat in this solar term can strengthen yang and tonify deficiency. Nowadays, people still have the custom of tonic in winter solstice.
In addition, there are habits of eating pumpkin pie, red bean glutinous rice, radish, etc. These ingredients can be found everywhere in winter, such as radish. Eating radish in winter can dispel cold and warm the body, and red beans and glutinous rice can warm the stomach.
4. wonton. Wonton is also one of the foods that southerners often eat during the winter solstice. It's called wonton in the south. It is a kind of food with stuffing wrapped in dough, which is very similar to jiaozi, but there are also differences. Usually, eating cooked wonton on the solstice in winter can warm your body.
5, mutton soup. It is especially good to drink mutton soup on the winter solstice in the south, because the winter solstice is the coldest time of the year, and the cold in the human body is increasing at this time. Then drinking mutton soup on the solstice in winter can play a role in driving away the cold and enhancing the body's resistance. In addition, mutton soup can also nourish the body, improve human immunity, thus alleviating physical weakness in winter solstice.
What traditional foods do southerners eat on the solstice in winter?
tangyuan
"Every family eats rice bags in jiaozi, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." For southerners, it is a deep-rooted custom to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means reunion and perfection. For southerners, eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter symbolizes family harmony and auspiciousness. Jiaozi eaten by southerners is generally divided into salty and sweet. In recent years, "Internet celebrity jiaozi" similar to Fruit jiaozi is active in the winter solstice festival, but personally, they are not delicious.
Cooked glutinous rice is mashed into paste.
The solstice in winter is a lively traditional festival custom of people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In fact, eating Ciba from winter to day is very popular in many areas of China, such as northern Fujian and Yunnan, but the taste and shape of Ciba are different. Ciba is mainly glutinous rice, which is steamed and mashed repeatedly in a stone mortar. During the period, you need to knead and turn over until it is sticky and elastic, and knead it into small balls by hand. You can eat it with sugar and sesame seeds, or you can wrap it in various ingredients and fry it into stuffing. Both salty and sweet are delicious.
Sweet pill
In Chaoshan area, there has been a traditional custom of eating sweet pills in winter solstice for many years. What is a sweet pill? Sweet meatballs are sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water-kneaded meatballs. In fact, it looks like sweet dumplings now. In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "When you eat solstice pills in winter, you celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding years", that is to say, one year old is the solstice after winter. On the solstice of winter, family members sit around their seats. glutinous rice balls is cooked and served to their families. Some people make sweet balls and wrap red bean paste in them. In fact, they taste a bit like glutinous rice balls.
roast
As we all know, Cantonese people are no less fond of bacon than Sichuanese. During the winter solstice festival, many Cantonese people have the habit of "adding dishes". Roasted meat is a traditional food that Cantonese people will never forget to eat on the solstice in winter. Roasted meat is not limited to bacon and sausage, but also has a variety of bacon flavors such as preserved chicken, preserved duck and preserved fish. If you don't know how delicious roasted meat is, you can easily make up for it in your mind after eating Guangdong clay pot rice. In fact, the traditional winter solstice customs and food are nothing more than longing for a better life.
New Year cake; rice cake
Tangyuan and jiaozi can be said to be symbolic foods in winter in the north and south of Japan. On the solstice of winter, people in Hangzhou eat rice cakes instead of jiaozi. There are many kinds of rice cakes and rich ways to eat them. People in Hangzhou cook different foods around rice cakes for three meals a day. Sweet rice cakes in the morning, fried rice cakes at noon and cooked rice cakes at night. The reason why we eat rice cakes all day is mainly the inheritance of traditional holiday customs and a kind of auspiciousness!