As the “winter solstice is going to be the New Year,†many people attach great importance to the customs of the winter solstice. What do they eat on the winter solstice? In addition to the dumplings and dumplings we know, there are many traditional dishes on the winter solstice day. What to eat on the winter solstice?
1, 馄饨
Old Beijing has the saying "winter solstice, summer solstice and summer solstice." "Yanjing": "The shape of husband and wife is like a chicken egg. It resembles the image of chaos in heaven and earth. Therefore, it was eaten during the winter solstice." In addition to the similarity in form, "馄饨" is also a homonym with "chaos." Winter food is good for the savings of thermal energy in the cold season.
Add boiling water to the pot, make the water well, and gently stir with a spoon for a few times. Bring to the fire and add 1 additional water. A small bowl is the best and it will prevent rotting. Sprinkle parsley when panning. People with heavy tastes can add a little soy sauce and salt to the soup before cooking. Remember, in order to maintain the savory taste of quail stuffing, it is important to keep a lid on the cooking time and not be too long.
2, dumplings
Every year during the lunar winter solstice, regardless of the rich or poor, dumplings are an indispensable festival meal. The dumplings sold by supermarkets and shopping malls are very "very beautiful." Jin Yun: "October, the winter solstice, every household eat dumplings.". Why do you want to eat dumplings on the winter solstice? It is said that this custom was attributed to Zhang Zhongjing’s winter solstice to commemorate the “medical sanctuaryâ€.
Most dumplings with more vegetables and less meat have high moisture content and are prone to “scatteringâ€. Cooking consumes large amounts of nutrients and tastes are poor. You can consider methods such as decoction and steaming, and meat with more stuffed foods Suitable for cooking. Try to use less fried, fried and other cooking methods to avoid extra fat intake.
3, winemaking
Hakka people think that when the winter solstice is the most watery, the wine that is brewed with it can be kept for a long time. It is soft and refreshing, and it is sweet and healthy. Therefore, Hakka brewing wine has become a custom. For this day, Hakka housewives often choose auspicious days and specialize in adding wine-making apparatus to the bazaar, moving the aged jars to the streams, washing the dirt with yellow sand, and allowing the cool springs to repeat Rinse and finally dry in a cool place.
4, ginger mother duck
People in Xiamen can be said to have a special liking for ducks. They eat ducks all the year round, salted ducks, sauce ducks, roast ducks, stewed ducks for four things, and ginger ducks for the winter solstice. As long as there is a shop selling ginger ducks on the street, it will be fragrant on the street.
The ginger duck uses red-faced mussel duck as its raw material, sauteed with sesame oil, and then it is cooked by adding ginger (Jiang Mu) and rice wine. It also has Shugan Runfei, Yangwei Jianpi, Shujin. It can nourish blood circulation, eliminate phlegm, and relieve phlegm. The ginger ducks do less of their own homework. Therefore, when the winter solstice arrives, many people start lining up to buy ginger ducks.
5, rice cake
From the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou enjoyed eating rice cakes in the winter solstice. During the winter solstice, three rice cakes with different flavors are prepared. In the morning, rice cakes with sesame flour and white sugar are eaten. At noon, there are fried dumplings, winter bamboo shoots, and pork fried rice cakes. At night, they are scallops, pork, and bamboo shoots. The winter solstice eats rice cakes.
6, "mind"
Yinchuan has a custom to drink powder soup and eat mutton soup dumplings on the winter solstice. The people of Yinchuan called the mutton powder soup a weird name called “mind†on the winter solstice.
In the winter solstice, the people called the ghost festival. After the dumplings were made, the soup dumplings were served first, and they were given a bowl to their neighbors. If you can’t eat dumplings in the morning, you can buy three-pointed crumbs in a hanging oven and an fennel cake with a powdered soup. Lamb meal soup dumplings with yellow radish is a common meal for Yinchuan people. It is rare to see such spicy and delicious dumplings in the field. This is also a specialty snack of Yinchuan.
7, roast meat
On the day of the winter solstice, most people in Lingnan have the custom of eating vegetables and eating winter solstice. The whole family spared ancestors and prepared a table with big fish, bacon, sausage, and so on. They ate and laughed to eat a meal. They prayed that they would be able to win the favor in the coming year. Among them, roast meat is an indispensable traditional food on Cantonese winter solstice table.
Cantonese roast can be subdivided into roast suckling pig, pork roast, roast goose, roast duck, and roast chicken. Although each type of production process is not consistent with the taste, it is slightly sweet. Looking up historical books, it has been a long time since it was used as a “roasting†of food. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jia Suiyi described the “moxibustion and porpoise method†in “Qi Min Yao Shuâ€.
8, ç³ç²‘
In Yunnan, the winter solstice has the habit of eating quails. Every time ancestors or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, have to do blasphemy, therefore, in the old home to yell “big brotherâ€, nowadays the common glutinous rice dumplings are disdainfully called “little pipaâ€. On this day, the family was round and joyfully surrounded by the brazier. They talked and laughed and baked and met with relatives and friends. The best meeting ceremony was also roasted.
There are many ways to eat oysters, and the other is to bake them with charcoal. The process of baking oysters is the most testable person's temperament, and people with impatientness are unable to eat. It's awkward, it's not easy to soften it. The first thing to do is to slowly bake on a charcoal fire that is slightly depleted. The anger cannot be too great. Otherwise, the skin will be scorched and the inside will be blunt. It will also be necessary to turn it over and make it evenly heated on both sides. The embarrassment was gradually bulging under the anger, and the epidermis was slightly raised, like a big bun, and it was done.
9, buckwheat noodles
Every winter solstice in Zhejiang and other places, the entire family must gather together, the married daughter must also return to her husband’s family. Every household needs to eat buckwheat noodles. Customs believe that eating buckwheat in the winter solstice can remove pig hair and chicken feathers in the stomach.
Buckwheat noodles have good palatability. There are many ways to make soba noodles, such as noodles, hot noodle soup, fried noodles, noodles, sharp-pointed fish, and fish, as well as stuffing, steamed buns, and pancakes. Use it to make glutinous rice cakes or noodles, served with sesame sauce or mutton soup.
10, dumplings
The ancients had a poem saying: “Every family’s glutinous rice is a glutinous rice dumpling, which is known as the winter solstice of the Ming dynasty.†The winter solstice to eat glutinous rice dumplings is a traditional custom of our country. It is particularly popular in the south of the Yangtze River and folks say that “you have eaten danyuan for a yearâ€. Tangyuan is also known as glutinous rice dumplings. The winter solstice is also known as "the winter solstice." Tangyuan can be used to worship ancestors and can also be used to exchange gifts with relatives and friends.
Another explanation is that the winter solstice is the longest night of the year. On the day of the winter solstice, when the sky is not yet bright, the women get up and simmer in broth to cook broth, first to worship the ancestors, and then to sit around and eat dumplings. Therefore, for the winter solstice to eat glutinous rice balls, in addition to the idea that the sun (sunshine) is gradually returning and the delegation is also a round, modern people prefer to regard it as a symbol of perfection.
11, nine cake
In our country, Taiwan also preserves the tradition of cultivating ancestors with nine layers of winter solstice. It uses glutinous rice flour to make chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize the auspicious Chinese luo and prosperity, and then steamed in steamers. To ancestors to show their ancestors.
12, red bean sticky rice
In Jiangnan Water Village, there is a custom for the whole family to eat together red bean glutinous rice during the winter solstice night. According to legend, Gong Gongshi has indecency, wicked, died in the winter solstice, died after becoming an epidemic, continue to mutilate the people. However, the epidemic is most afraid of red bean, so people cook red bean rice on the winter solstice day to repel and kill disease.
Glutinous rice is sweet and warm. It can nourish the body and it will warm up the body after eating. It will protect the body from cold and nourishing. It is most suitable for eating in the winter. If it is possible to use black sticky rice, it would be better. Black glutinous rice helps the mothers to nourish the physical weakness caused by the postpartum, which is conducive to increasing milk and breastfeeding the baby. The glutinous rice is fragrant, the bacon oil is not too greasy, the red beans and the peanuts are very tasty, especially delicious. If you want to eat more healthy, you can reduce the proportion of bacon, add a little more beans and grains.
13, dog meat
The custom of eating dog meat in the winter solstice is said to have started from the Han Dynasty. Legend has it that Han Gaozu Liu Bang had eaten Fan Li’s dog meat on the winter solstice, and felt that the taste was particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat in the winter solstice has formed. Nowadays people eat dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice in order to have a good sign for the coming year.
As the saying goes: "Cold winter, dog fat." "The dog rolled three times, and the fairy stood unsteady." The winter is a good time to eat dog meat. Dog meat is rich in taste and aromatic, so some places are called savory meat. It is a winter tonic with mutton. Dog meat is of high nutritional value. It contains 14.5 grams of protein per 100 grams of dog meat, 23.5 grams of fat, comparable to beef, pork, and contains potassium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium and a variety of vitamins and amino acids, is an ideal nutritional food.
14, sweet pill
The custom of eating sweetballs is almost universal throughout the tidal area. However, this custom also contains an interesting detail: After people have worshipped their ancestors with sweet pills on this day, they put out some stickers on their own door tops, roof beams, and rice cylinders.
Why do you want to do this? Sweetballs are sweet and round, which means good meaning. It indicates that the harvest will be harvested again next year and family members will be able to reunite. If the family accidentally hits it on this day, it will augur well. This is like the "water-sprinkling festival" of ethnic minorities. If, on this day, it happens that outsiders come to visit and let outsiders run into it, these outsiders will also make good fortune. Therefore, people do not want outsiders to visit on this day.
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