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Winter Solstice, also known as "Winter Festival", "Longest Day Festival" and "Sub-Year Festival", is an important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Winter Solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, originating in the Spring and Autumn Period. Ancient China used a gnomon to observe the sun and determine the Winter Solstice, which falls between December 21 and 23 of the Gregorian calendar. On the Winter Solstice, the sun's direct position on the ground reaches the southernmost point of the year, almost directly above the Tropic of Capricorn (23°26' south latitude); the Northern Hemisphere receives the least sunlight, 50% less than the Southern Hemisphere; the daylight in the Northern Hemisphere reaches its shortest point, and the further north you go, the shorter the daylight. The ancients said about the Winter Solstice: when the negative pole reaches its extreme point, the yang begins to grow, the sun reaches its southernmost point, the day is the shortest, and the shadow is the longest, so it is called "Winter Solstice". Every festival is inseparable from festive food. Here are some snacks for the winter solstice in various places that Guanguan has learned about. I wonder what you will eat on this day? 1. Eating dumplings on the winter solstice Dumplings are an indispensable festival meal on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar every year, regardless of whether you are rich or poor. There is a saying: "On October 1, the winter solstice arrives, and every household eats dumplings." This custom is left to commemorate the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing who gave away medicine on the winter solstice. Different places have different customs during the winter solstice, but most places have the custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. After thousands of years of development, the winter solstice has formed a unique festival food culture, and eating dumplings has become a custom for most Chinese people on the winter solstice.
2. Tengzhou mutton soup The custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty, ate mutton cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice and found it particularly delicious. He praised it highly. Since then, the custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice has been formed among the people. People eat mutton and various nourishing foods on the winter solstice in order to have a good omen for the coming year. In modern times, the custom of drinking mutton soup on the winter solstice is popular in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, which means to drive away the cold.
3. Jiangnan Rice In the water towns of Jiangnan, there is a custom of the whole family gathering together to eat red bean glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. According to legend, Gonggong had an untalented son who committed many evil deeds and died on the winter solstice. After his death, he became a plague ghost and continued to harm the people. But the plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to drive away the plague ghost and prevent disasters and diseases.
4. Taiwanese glutinous rice cakes Taiwan has preserved the tradition of using nine-layer cakes to worship ancestors during the winter solstice. Glutinous rice flour is used to knead chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize good luck, fortune, longevity and happiness. Then they are steamed in layers in a steamer and used to worship 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 an agreed date before or after the winter solstice to worship their ancestors one by one according to the order of seniority. This is commonly known as "ancestor worship." After the ceremony, a banquet will be held to entertain the clan members who came to worship their ancestors. Everyone drinks happily and reconnects with each other after a long separation. This is called "eating ancestors." The winter solstice festival to commemorate ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation in Taiwan to show that they have not forgotten their "roots."
5. Taizhou Lei Yuan People in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province love delicious food. Winter Solstice is an important solar term in the year. On this day, they have to make some special dishes and food. First, they have to pay homage to their ancestors and pray that their ancestors will bless the whole family with peace and happiness in the coming year. Then the whole family will happily gather together to drink and eat. Among them, eating "Winter Solstice Yuan" (Lei Yuan, also called Hard Lei Yuan and Fan Cao Yuan) is an old tradition in Taizhou. Lei Yuan means round and smooth, and reunion.
6. Suzhou Winemaking Suzhou Winemaking The Suzhou area attaches great importance to the winter solstice. There is a saying in the Suzhou area: "Winter Solstice is like New Year". Traditional Suzhou families will drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice. Winter wine is a kind of rice wine brewed with osmanthus, which has a pleasant aroma. While drinking winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, Suzhou people will also pair it with various stewed dishes such as braised beef and stewed mutton. In the cold winter, brewing wine in winter can not only drive away the cold, but also express the beautiful wishes of Suzhou people for life.
7. Jiangxi Mazi Mazi is a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. It is also a traditional snack of Fujian people and an offering for Fujian people to worship. Mazi is suitable for steaming, frying, roasting and sand frying after drying in the shade. Mazi is also a famous snack in southern Fujian. Among them, the most famous one is produced in Yingdu, Nan'an. Its raw materials are high-quality glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut kernels, rock sugar, etc. Mazi is sweet and delicious. It can resist hunger after eating. It has a sweet and smooth taste, and is soft, tough and slightly icy. The finished product is bright white, smooth, tough and transparent.
8. Tangyuan in Chaoshan, Guangdong There is a folk proverb of the Han nationality in Chaoshan area: "Winter Festival is as important as New Year" and "No return to the ancestors during the Winter Festival". It means that people who are away from home must rush back home to worship their ancestors on the winter solstice, otherwise they have no sense of ancestral home. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait attach great importance to the winter solstice and regard it as a reunion festival. After eating the four-style glutinous rice balls, the people of Chaoshan also stick two winter solstice balls on the doors, windows, tables, cabinets, ladders, beds and other conspicuous places of the house, even the bow of the fisherman's boat, the horns of the farmer's oxen, and the fruit trees planted by the fruit farmers are no exception. Lin Zaifu, a famous modern Taiwanese scholar, described the day of the Taiwanese winter festival (the winter solstice is called the winter festival in the Minnan dialect) in his book "Minnan People" as "every household will offer winter solstice balls to their ancestors in the early morning... From the main door, small door, window door, warehouse door, bed, cabinet, table, well, toilet, cowshed, pigsty, one or two winter solstice balls are placed on them, and a sacrifice is made to bless the safety of the whole family." Four types of glutinous rice balls: First, boil or steam green beans, red beans, sugar-coated winter melon, and taro separately, peel them, add sugar, sesame, cooked lard and other condiments to make four kinds of sweet fillings, wrap the glutinous rice balls with four different fillings, and mark them; put the four kinds of glutinous rice balls in sugared water and cook them, and put one glutinous rice ball with different fillings in each bowl.
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