In the past, the winter solstice was one of the most important holidays of the year. On this day, people had to return home for the Winter Festival to show that they had a home in the year. Nowadays, the memory of the winter solstice is gradually faded away. We already could not think of such a festival and how this festival should be passed. Today, it is also a winter solstice. Xiaobian Special will pack up some customs about winter days. Let us ponder the warm winter solstice customs together on this cold winter day.
Common dates
The winter solstice is generally on the 21st of the Gregorian calendar or the 22nd of December 22. Because the winter solstice is not fixed on a specific day, it is called "living festival" like Qingming.
Ancient Memorial
The Winter Solstice is also known as Winter Festival and winter. It is one of the 24 festivals. It is a traditional festival in China. It used to be said that "the winter solstice is as big as the year." The court and the people have always attached great importance to it. Since the Zhou Dynasty, there have been sacrificial activities.
"Zhou Lichun Guan Shenshen": "In winter, the ghost is born to God." The purpose is to pray for and eliminate the disease in the country, and reduce the hunger and death of the year and the people. "Historical Records Xiao Wu Ben Ji": "Then two years old, November Jiadan once the winter solstice, push the calendar to the reunion. The emperor kissed the Taishan, to the November dynasty, the first winter solstice to the Goddess Church, every repair Zen ."
"Han Han etiquette": "Before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman rests in a static body, and the officers and men must have a job." They must also select the "can of the people," sing and boast, and play the "law of the yellow bell" to show celebration.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, both the winter solstice and the oldest were equal. The Southern Song Dynasty Meng Yuanlao "Tokyo dream Hualu": ​​"The November winter solstice. The capital is the most important section of this year, although to the poor, a year, accumulate under the guise of borrowing, to this day more easy to new clothes, prepared to eat, enjoy the ancestors. Take a plunge and celebrate the exchange, just like the New Year."
Traditional diet
The winter solstice is a good time for health, mainly because "qi began in the winter solstice." Because from the beginning of the winter, life activities began to decline from high to low, from static to static. At this time, scientific health helps to ensure strong energy and prevent premature aging, and achieve longevity. During the winter solstice season, the diet should be varied, and the valley, fruit, meat and vegetables should be properly matched, and high-calcium foods should be properly selected.
There are different customs around the winter solstice, but most places have the custom of eating dumplings during the winter solstice. The winter solstice has developed over thousands of years and has formed a unique festival-style food culture. Eating dumplings has become the custom of most Chinese winter solstice. Of course, there are exceptions such as the practice of drinking mutton soup on the day of the winter solstice in Tengzhou, Shandong Province.
The winter solstice to eat dumplings
Every year during the lunar winter solstice, regardless of wealth, dumplings are an indispensable festival meal. saying
Yun: "October, the winter solstice, every household to eat dumplings." This custom is to commemorate the "medical sanctuary" Zhang Zhongjing winter shun medicine left.
Tengzhou mutton soup
The custom of eating mutton during the winter solstice is said to have started from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Han Gaozu Liu Bang ate the Fan Yao boiled mutton on the winter solstice day and felt that the taste was particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating mutton during the winter solstice has been formed in the people. People ate lamb and various nourishing foods on the winter solstice in order to have a good sign for the coming year. Now in Tengzhou, Shandong, everyone must drink mutton soup in the winter solstice.
Jiangnan 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.
Taiwanese loquat cake
In our country, Taiwan still preserves the tradition of using nine layers of cakes to worship ancestors during the winter solstice.
Using glutinous rice flour, chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize auspiciousness and prosperity are used as animals and then steamed in layers in a steamer for ancestors to show their ancestors. The same name surnamed the same ancestors as early as before and after the winter solstice, set in the order of the young and old in the ancestral temple, one by one to worship the ancestors, commonly known as "ancestor worship." After the ceremony, there will be a feast for the ancestors of the ancestors. Everyone happily drunk and communicated with each other for a long time. They called it “food ancestors.†The ancestors of the winter solstice have been handed down from generation to generation in order to show their own "root."
Radish, green vegetables, tofu, fungus and so on.
Taizhou Yuyuan
Zhejiang Taizhou has a good food. The winter solstice is an important year in the world. To make some special dishes and food on this day, we must first commemorate the ancestors and pray that the ancestors will bless the whole family in the coming year. Then the whole family gathered together to have a drink and eat. Among them, eating the “winter solstice†(rounded out, also known as “hard round, round and roundâ€) is the old tradition of Taizhou, which means that it is a round, round, moist and reunion.
The round is the highlight of the winter solstice. "Circle" means "reunion" and "consummation," compared with the glutinous rice balls eaten on weekdays.
The Linhai people’s winter solstice is rich in content, different in form, and meaningful. The glutinous rice dumpling is made from glutinous rice flour. The glutinous rice flour and warm water are used to knead the dough first. Then the vinegar dish is crushed into a round shape. After cooking, it is rolled in the bean yellow powder. Because the dialect of the process is called "" So the winter solstice is called the "Yuanyuan", and the bean yellow powder is cooked with soybeans and then ground into a powder and then brown sugar. The taste is sweet and rich, and it is accompanied by delicate glutinous rice balls. It is appetizing. A folder filled with soybean meal, a round, hot and bite, savory, sweet, warm, soft, soft, a happy sense of well-being. In addition to the classic sweet circle, there are many homes that like the salty winter solstice. The salty circle is to put stuffing in the glutinous rice group. The package is similar to pork, tofu, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, carrots, white radish, etc. It is delicious and juicy, and it has a good taste.
Suzhou Wine
The Gusu region attaches great importance to the solar terms of the winter solstice. There are sayings in the Gusu region: "The winter solstice is like a big year." The traditional Gusu family will drink winter wine on the winter solstice night. Winter wine is a type of rice wine. It is brewed with sweet-scented osmanthus and is pleasantly scented. During the winter solstice night, the Gusu people drink cold winter brewed wine, along with a variety of stewed dish such as braised beef, braised lamb and so on. In the cold winter, winter wine can not only help the cold, but also pinpoints the Gusu people's good wishes for life.
Jiangxi Paralysis
Ma Ke is a special product of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. It is also a traditional snack for Fujian people and a sacrifice for Fujian people when they worship.
After the yam is dried, it is steamed, fried, grilled, and fried.
The paralysis is also a famous snack in southern Fujian. Among them, Nan An Ying produces the most famous snacks. Its raw materials are good glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut, and rock sugar. It is sweet and delicious, and it is resistant to hunger after eating. It has a sweet, smooth taste and is soft and slightly iced. Finished product is bright white, smooth and transparent.
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