the coming of the winter solstice means the arrival of the coldest winter. There are many traditional customs in our country. The day of the winter solstice is to eat dumplings, so what is the emphasis on eating in the winter solstice?
Tangyuan has the meaning of "Reunion". Eating Tangyuan in winter solstice is very popular all over the country. The commonly used materials for Tangyuan, such as glutinous rice, sesame and red bean, are also warm and have a good spleen strengthening effect. The spleen and stomach are healthy, and the diet nutrition will be absorbed and utilized by the body, so as to improve the cold resistance and disease prevention ability of the body, which is most suitable for eating in winter.
Dumplings
It is an ancient saying that "eating dumplings without freezing ears" in the winter solstice. In modern times, eating dumplings in the winter solstice is to treat frozen ears. However, the reasonable combination of noodles, vegetables and meat makes dumplings a kind of nutritious and digestible food. In winter solstice, dumplings can be filled with mutton, cabbage, onion, leek, radish, etc., which are all warm, and can play a certain role in warming the Yang.
Wonton
Wonton used to be a popular food in the north, but now people in the South also like to eat wonton in the winter solstice. There is a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". In Yanjing's chronicle of the age of Yanjing, it is said: 'the shape of Fu wonton is like a chicken egg, like the chaos of heaven and earth, so it is eaten on the winter solstice. In addition to being similar in shape, wonton is also homophonic to chaos. Eating wonton in winter is good for saving heat energy in cold season.
Glutinous rice
In all parts of China, there is a custom that families gather to eat red bean and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. Glutinous rice includes steamed glutinous rice with red dates in steamer, colored glutinous rice with flowers, dumplings, Babao rice, Ciba, new year's cake, pillow shaped and triangle shaped zongzi in Dragon Boat Festival, Qingming green rice and Qingming rice. Glutinous rice is popular all over the country, and there are endless sweet, salty, sour and spicy practices.
Mutton soup
It is said that it came from fan Kuai, the general of the Han Dynasty. In winter, eating more mutton is beneficial to the exuberance of internal fire, cold resistance and effectiveness, which is the first choice of winter diet. In some places of Shandong Province, it is a local custom to drink mutton soup at the winter solstice.
Winter festival pill
There is a folk saying in Chaoshan that "winter festival pill means new year's Eve after eating". It means that although the year has not passed, everyone has already added one year. Children are most eager to eat this bowl of sweet pills. They often wake up at night and ask if it's dawn. However, it seems that the sky is always not bright, as if it's joking with children. Therefore, there is a popular nursery rhyme of "winter festival night, long and long, before the sweet pills are boiled, the sky is not bright".