What do you eat during the Winter Solstice?

1. Chaoshan people eat Winter Festival Pills during the winter solstice: There is a folk proverb in Chaoshan that "Winter Festival Pills will celebrate the New Year as soon as you eat them." It is commonly known as "Tian Sui", which means that although the New Year has not yet passed, everyone has added it. One year old. Children are most looking forward to eating this bowl of sweet pills. They often wake up at night and ask if it's dawn yet. However, the sky seems to be playing a joke on the children, and it's always dark. Therefore, there is a popular saying: "Winter Festival Eve, __ is long, The nursery rhyme "The sweet pills are not boiled until the sun shines".

2. Hakka people eat and make wine during the winter solstice: Hakka people believe that the water at the winter solstice has the most mellow taste, and the wine made with it can be stored for a long time, is soft and refreshing, has a sweet aftertaste and promotes body fluids, and has sufficient stamina. Therefore, it has become a custom for Hakka people to make wine during the winter solstice.

3. Eating mutton soup during the Winter Solstice in Sichuan: Eating mutton soup during the Winter Solstice in Sichuan. Mutton is the most nutritious in winter. Experts point out that eating mutton can not only protect against wind and cold, but also nourish the body. It has good curative effect on bronchitis, asthma due to deficiency and cold, impotence due to kidney deficiency, cold and painful abdomen, cold sensitivity due to physical deficiency, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, sallow complexion and thin muscles, and deficiency of both qi and blood.

4. Hangzhou people eat rice cakes during the winter solstice: From the late Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China until now, Hangzhou people like to eat rice cakes during the winter solstice. During the winter solstice, we cook rice cakes with different flavors for three meals. In the morning, we eat rice cakes with sesame powder mixed with sugar. At noon, we eat rice cakes with fried vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, and shredded pork. For dinner, we eat rice cakes in soup with mustard mustard, shredded pork, and bamboo shoots. Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will make you grow taller every year, which is auspicious.

In addition, there is a general division of eating dumplings in the north and glutinous rice balls in the south.