What traditional food to eat during the winter solstice, eat rice dumplings in the north, and various special foods in the south.

        What to eat during the winter solstice has always been a very big problem in the North and the South. I firmly believe that many people close their eyes and understand that people in the Northeast eat rice dumplings, while in the north, many people want to talk about dumplings, but there are more foods to eat in the winter solstice. What kind of traditional food is actually more similar in many regions. Let's actually discuss what ingredients are eaten in the winter solstice in different regions.

        1. Eat rice dumplings in the north

        There is a folk song in the northern area that says "Winter solstice is not holding dumpling bowls, and the ears are frozen and no one cares!" Therefore, most of the winter solstice day, every household will eat dumplings. In fact, this custom is also related to the "medical sage" Zhang Zhongjing. He once invented dumplings (real name "Jiao'er"), and used "Shanhan Jiao'er Tang" to rescue the poor people who had their ears cracked by hunger and cold at that time. So everyone ate dumplings during the Spring Festival and Winter Solstice to better remember him, and this sentence was also left.

        2. Eat glutinous rice balls in the south

        There are many differences in customs and habits in the north and south. In these aspects, we all understand that we eat rice dumplings on all festivals in the north, and many regions in the south have the habit of eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice. There is also a saying that "you will be one year older after eating gnocchi". Tangyuan is also called the "winter solstice solar term", especially in the Jiangnan region. Therefore, when it comes to traditional food for the winter solstice, the key is northern dumplings and southern glutinous rice balls. However, different regions in the south also have their own characteristics.

        3. Mochi

        Mochi is a native product of Zhejiang Province and Jiangxi Province. It is also a traditional delicacy of Hunanese, and it is also a tribute for worship. Mochi is made from glutinous rice, with animal oil, white sesame seeds, peanut kernels, old rock sugar, etc., to make a special delicacy that is delicious and soft to eat.

        4. Gansu brain

Gansu winter solstice generally eats the brain, which sounds terrible, but in fact it is to drink noodle soup and mutton noodle soup dumplings, but mutton noodle soup is different from general mutton soup. It is made of fungus and beef. Add noodles, sweet potato noodles, leeks, garlic yellow, Xianglai, etc., to make a pot of colorful lamb noodle soup, which tastes spicy and refreshing, and has long become a specialty of Gansu.

        5. Eat duck in Xiamen

Speaking of what ingredients to eat during the winter solstice, people in Xiamen will talk about eating ducks. Xiamen people are very fond of eating ducks. They eat ducks all year round, just like eating chicken games on all festivals in Hainan Province, while the winter solstice in Xiamen is the key to eating ducks. The ginger duck is made from red noodles Muscovy duck as raw material. It is fried with sesame oil and then added with ginger (ginger tea) and fermented wine. It has the functions of relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, dispelling cold, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

        6. Taiwanese nine-layer cake

        What traditional food do you eat during the winter solstice? In Taiwan Province of my country, the traditional style of worshiping the ancestors with nine layers of cakes is still preserved. Rice flour is used to knead into chicken, duck, turtle, pig, cow, sheep and other auspicious objects, which are then steamed in bamboo baskets in layers and used for worship. Ancestor. After the festival, the banquet will continue to be set up, which is called "Shi Zu", indicating that Taiwan, China, may not forget its "root".

        7. Eat rice cakes in Hangzhou

Hangzhou City loves to eat rice cakes, so you have to ask what ingredients you eat during the winter solstice. Generally Hangzhou people will respond to you eating rice cakes, but they have many ways to eat rice cakes, such as mung bean cake mixed with sesame powder and white sugar, pork fried rice cake, and wire-drawn rice cake Fried nian gao, Hangzhou people eat nian gao during the winter solstice season as a kind of good intention, which symbolizes old age.