What are the customs and traditions in different places during the Winter Solstice?
The Winter Solstice is also a traditional festival in my country, commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "Longest Day Festival", "Second Year's Day", etc. Until now, many places still have the custom of celebrating the Winter Solstice Festival. What are the customs and habits during the Winter Solstice in different places? The eleventh month of the lunar calendar is approaching, and life is gradually entering a new mode. If you want to know more exciting content about the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please visit Mr. Shui Mo’s website!Winter Solstice customs and practices:North: Dumplings and wontons <br /> In Beijing, there is a saying: "Wontons at the winter solstice, noodles at the summer solstice." For northerners who believe that "nothing tastes better than dumplings", it is also a common custom to eat dumplings and wontons during the winter solstice. Eating "Niedong'erduo" is the common name for eating dumplings during the winter solstice in Henan Province. It is said that eating dumplings can prevent people's ears from freezing off in the cold winter.However, people in different places call wontons differently. People in Guangdong call wontons "wontons", people in Hubei call them "baomian", people in Jiangxi call them "clear soup", and people in Sichuan call them "chaoshou". Jiangnan: Tangyuan <br /> There is a saying among the people that "eating tangyuan makes you one year older." Eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice is a traditional custom in my country, and is particularly popular in the south of the Yangtze River. Tangyuan is also called "tangtuan", and eating tangyuan during the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice tangyuan". "Winter Solstice Rice Balls" can be used to worship ancestors or given as gifts to friends and relatives. In the old days, Shanghai people were most particular about eating tangyuan. At the family dinner, they taste freshly brewed sweet white wine, flower cakes and glutinous rice balls, and then pile pieces of meat on a plate to offer sacrifice to their ancestors. Ningxia: “Brain” There is a custom in Yinchuan that people drink noodle soup and eat mutton noodle soup dumplings on the day of the winter solstice. However, on the day of the winter solstice, mutton noodle soup is not called mutton noodle soup, but has another strange name - "brain". The head of the household started working early in the morning. He washed the purple mushrooms from Songshan Mountain, boiled the soup, and took out the mushrooms after it was done. He put the diced mutton into the pan and stir-fried it. After it was well-seasoned, he added the chopped mushrooms to the diced mutton and stir-fried it again, then marinated it with vinegar. This pot of soup contains red peppers, yellow day lilies, green garlic sprouts and coriander, white vermicelli and noodles, and black mushrooms and fungus. It has all five colors of red, yellow, green, white and black, and the aroma is so fragrant that it makes people salivate. Zhejiang: Buckwheat noodles <br /> In Zhejiang and other places, every winter solstice, the whole family, young and old, men and women, gather together, and married daughters also rush back to their husband's home. Every household makes buckwheat noodles. It is believed that eating buckwheat during the winter solstice can remove pig hair and chicken feathers from the stomach and intestines. Guizhou: Dog meat <br /> The custom of eating dog meat during the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the day of winter solstice and found it tasted particularly delicious and praised it highly. From then on, the custom of eating dog meat during the winter solstice was formed among the people. There is also a saying among the people that "eat dog meat on the Winter Solstice and fight tigers next spring." Now in the north, people in Guizhou and other regions eat dog meat, mutton and various nourishing foods on the day of the winter solstice, because the weather enters the coldest period after the winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of strengthening yang and replenishing the body. Therefore, there is still a custom of taking tonic foods on the winter solstice among the people. Fujian: rolling pills "Frost on the winter solstice, the moon is bright; cypress leaves are red, and dumplings are in the arms." This is a nursery rhyme about the winter solstice. The "Eight Fujian Chronicles" records: "In advance, glutinous rice is made into balls, which are ripe early on this day and offered to the ancestors." This is the custom of making balls at night on the Winter Solstice and offering the ripened "sweet balls" to ancestors. The ball-rolling technique is delicate. The women in the fishing villages of Shenhu in Jinjiang, Xiangzhi in Shishi, and Chongwu in Hui'an are very good at making balls with fast speed and good quality. Each ball is as small as a fish eye bead, which is amazing. While rolling the winter festival balls, people also use the rice ball material to make some small and exquisite fruits, animals, gold ingots and silver treasures to symbolize prosperity, auspiciousness and wealth, commonly known as "making chickens, sows and dogs". Taiwan: Nine-layer cake <br /> In Taiwan, the tradition of using nine-layer cake to worship ancestors during the winter solstice is still preserved. Glutinous rice flour is used to shape chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize good luck, fortune, longevity and happiness. They are then steamed in layers in a steamer and used to offer sacrifices to ancestors to show that they have not forgotten their ancestors. People of the same surname and clan gather at the ancestral temple on the winter solstice or on a date agreed upon before or after it, and worship their ancestors one by one in order of seniority, commonly known as "ancestor worship." After the ceremony, a grand banquet will be held to entertain the relatives who come to worship their ancestors. |
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