What do Guangzhou people eat on the solstice in winter?

1. Tangyuan: There is a saying among the Han people in Chaoshan area that "the winter festival is as big as the year" and "the winter festival is not returned to the ancestors", which means that people who go out must go home to worship their ancestors on the winter solstice, otherwise they have no idea about their ancestral home. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait attach great importance to the winter solstice and regard it as a festival of reunion.

2. Chicken, duck and fish: "Big New Year in winter" and "Fat winter and thin year" are big proverbs that Guangzhou people hear from time to time. The solstice in winter seems to be more important than the Spring Festival, and the battle is even bigger than the Spring Festival. Now people in Guangzhou celebrate the solstice of winter, and many families still keep jiaozi. The chicken kills the duck, and the family sits around and eats a big meal; There are also many people in Guangzhou who choose to spend the holidays in restaurants and get together with their families, which makes restaurants large and small shocked.

3. Niangjiu: Hakkas call the solstice of winter "wintering". According to the custom, every household should "have a good meal". "Winter solstice mutton, summer solstice dog meat", around the winter solstice, Hakka people in Meizhou like to eat mutton and make wine. People usually say that it is good for health to heat and eat mutton during the winter solstice. Therefore, boiled mutton with wine has become a seasonal food for Hakkas in winter.

4. Cantonese Roasted Meat: Cantonese Roasted Meat is a famous dish of Han nationality in Guangdong Province, including roasted goose, pigeon, suckling pig, barbecued pork and some braised dishes. In fact, roasted meat can be divided into "roasting" and "curing", generally referring to barbecue and braised pork. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Arabs and Indians introduced enema food, and chefs further integrated the enema production method with the local method of curing meat, creating a "combination of Chinese and foreign" Cantonese bacon, which is famous at home and abroad.

5. Winter Solstice Pills: In Chaoshan area, every household should make winter Solstice Pills with glutinous rice flour every winter festival. Before the dawn of winter solstice, hardworking housewives cooked "winter solstice pills" with brown sugar and put them in bowls to worship their ancestors and emperors. After getting up, adults and children should eat a bowl of winter solstice pills, which will add one year. If a family member goes out and doesn't come home, be sure to leave him some glutinous rice flour and make a bowl of glutinous rice balls for him to eat when he gets home.