Cantonese people have a traditional saying - the winter solstice marks the New Year. The winter solstice is a very important solar term among the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. In the past, Cantonese people living abroad would go home to reunite with their families every winter solstice. To this day, the Winter Solstice is still an important day in the hearts of millions of citizens.
On this day, no matter how busy they are, the whole family will sit around the table and have a lively meal. On this traditional festival, having a bite of traditional dishes will make you feel better.
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After thousands of years of development, the Winter Solstice has formed a unique seasonal food culture. Foods such as wontons, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, red bean porridge, millet rice cakes, etc. can be used as New Year foods. The once popular "Winter Solstice Sub-year Banquet" also had many items, such as eating Winter Solstice meat, offering Winter Solstice plates, offering Winter Solstice dumplings, and making wontons to celebrate the winter, etc.
A more common custom is the custom of eating wontons during the Winter Solstice. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an people ate wontons on the Winter Solstice. At first, it was to worship their ancestors, and then it gradually became popular. There is a saying among the Han people that "Winter Solstice Wontons and Summer Solstice Noodles". Since the development of wonton, it has become a famous snack with many names, different preparations, delicious flavor, spread all over the country, and deeply loved by people.
Eating glutinous rice balls is also a traditional custom during the Winter Solstice, especially popular in Jiangnan. "Tangyuan" is a must-have food during the Winter Solstice. It is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Yuan" means "reunion" and "completeness". Eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "Winter Solstice Tuan". There is a saying among the Han people that "eating glutinous rice balls will make you one year older". The Winter Solstice group can be used to worship ancestors, and can also be used to exchange gifts with relatives and friends. In the old days, Shanghainese were most particular about eating glutinous rice balls. There is a poem from the ancients: "Every family pounding rice to make glutinous rice balls knows that it is the winter solstice in the Ming Dynasty."
There are many places in the north where it is customary to eat dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice, because after the winter solstice The weather has entered the coldest period. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of aphrodisiac and tonic. The Han people still have the custom of taking supplements during the winter solstice.
People's Daily Online-Winter Solstice New Year! Cantonese people eat traditionally during the Winter Solstice
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