What to eat during the Winter Solstice? A complete guide to Winter Solstice festival foods!
The Winter Solstice is both a solar term and a festival. There is a custom of eating dumplings in the north on this day. The weather is cold during the winter solstice, so you should pay attention to your eating habits. What to eat during the Winter Solstice? A complete guide to Winter Solstice festival foods! Mr. Shui Mo website provides you with more relevant articles about November 11, 2019 of the lunar calendar. Mr. Shui Mo website presents you with wonderful content about November 11, 2019 of the lunar calendar.Winter Solstice Food Guide——The Winter Solstice is both a solar term and a festival:=The Winter Solstice has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival for ancestor worship. =The Winter Solstice is one of the eight festivals of the year. The Chinese nation has a tradition of worshiping ancestors on the Winter Solstice since ancient times to show filial piety and not forgetting one's roots. Due to different customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. ——Diet in different dream regions during the winter solstice: =Guangdong people: roast meat, ginger rice <br /> Guangdong people eat roast meat and ginger rice on the winter solstice. On the winter solstice, most Guangdong people have the custom of "adding dishes" to eat winter solstice meat. There is a folk saying in Chaoshan area that "Eating winter festival balls means Chinese New Year has arrived", commonly known as "adding years". =Hakka people: brewing wine <br /> Hakka people believe that the water tastes the best during the winter solstice, so brewing wine during the winter solstice has become a custom. = Hangzhou people: Rice cake <br /> Hangzhou people eat rice cake during the winter solstice. They have been eating rice cake since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties until now. During the winter solstice, people make rice cakes with different flavors for three meals. Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will help people grow taller every year and bring good luck. =Sichuan people: mutton soup <br /> In Sichuan, people eat mutton soup during the winter solstice. Mutton is the most nutritious food in winter. =Hunan and Hubei: Glutinous Rice <br /> In the Hunan and Hubei regions, people must eat red bean glutinous rice on the winter solstice. =Southerners: Winter Solstice Balls <br /> In some areas of the south, it is more popular to eat Winter Solstice Balls (Winter Solstice Balls), which symbolizes reunion. Every winter solstice morning, every household grinds glutinous rice flour, and uses sugar, meat, vegetables, fruit, shredded radish, etc. as fillings to make winter solstice balls. Not only are they eaten by family members, they are also given to relatives and friends as gifts to express blessings. In fact, eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice is a traditional custom in my country, and it is even more common in the south of the Yangtze River. There is also a saying among the people that "eating glutinous rice balls will make you one year older." =Northerners: Dumplings <br /> In many areas of northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year. According to legend, when the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing retired and returned to his hometown, he saw people suffering from the cold. He used mutton, some cold-relieving herbs and dough to wrap them into the shape of ears, made a medicine called "Quhan Jiao'er Soup" and gave it to the people. What to eat during the winter solstice?《1》Four types of glutinous rice balls:First, boil or steam mung beans, red beans, sugar-coated wax gourd and taro separately, peel them, add sugar, sesame seeds, cooked lard and other seasonings to make four kinds of sweet fillings, wrap the glutinous rice ball skins with the four different fillings and mark them. Put the four kinds of glutinous rice balls into the water with sugar and cook. Each bowl contains one glutinous rice ball with different fillings. 《2》Braised eggs with longans in Jiaxing, Zhejiang The Winter Solstice was a major festival in ancient times. Jiaxing attaches great importance to the Winter Solstice. There is a saying that "The Winter Solstice is as important as New Year", which preserves the ancient customs. According to the Records of Jiaxing Prefecture (Volume 34, Customs), “On the winter solstice, people worship their ancestors and congratulate each other with their hats and caps, just like the New Year’s Day ceremony.” People advocate taking tonic food during the winter solstice, which include red bean glutinous rice, ginseng soup, white fungus, walnut kernels stewed in wine, longan and boiled eggs, etc. To this day, Jiaxing still inherits the custom of eating "longan fried eggs" during the winter solstice. The old people say that because the winter solstice has the longest night in the year, if you don't eat it, you will be cold all night and still feel hungry in the middle of the night. ——How to make red dates and longan fried eggs: Ingredients: dried longan, red dates (optional), eggs, water, brown sugar/rock sugar (optional). Steps: =1: Rinse the peeled dried longan (and red dates) quickly, put them in a cooking pot, and add appropriate amount of water. =2: Bring the longan (red dates) water to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 15 minutes. =3: After 15 minutes, you can see that the longan (red dates) has expanded as shown in the picture. =4: Beat the eggs directly into the longan and red dates soup, boil the eggs on medium heat for one minute, then turn to low heat and simmer the eggs for about 1 to 3 minutes. =5: Pour the soup out. |
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