What custom foods do Anhui people eat on the solstice in winter?
First, eat noodles from the winter solstice.
In Hefei, the custom of eating noodles during the solar term from winter to solstice is related to the season, climate and farm work. After the winter solstice solar term, there are nine cold days, and every nine days, there are nine. In the cold winter, dripping water becomes ice, and eating a bowl of hot egg noodles is considered as the solar term from winter to the sun.
Second, eat jiaozi.
Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice won't freeze your ears. This name comes from Zhang Zhongjing. Seeing that the ears of ordinary people were cracked by freezing, he used toast as a Chinese herbal medicine to dispel the cold and boiled it into Joule soup to cure the ears of ordinary people. Nowadays, eating jiaozi on the solstice of winter is not to cure frozen ears better, but to combine flour, vegetables and meat effectively, making jiaozi a characteristic food with comprehensive nutrition and easy digestion.
Third, eat fried products.
Eating fried food is the favorite of Anhui people, especially in winter solstice. Gardens, potatoes, pumpkin pie, qianzi, sweet potatoes and so on will all face the fate of being "fried" on this day. On this day every year, Anhui people will fry a lot of delicious food and don't have to buy breakfast for a long time. In Feixi County, people have the custom of eating dried noodles, fried pumpkin handles and fried eggs on the solstice in winter.
Fourth, old hen soup.
In Anhui, drinking old hen soup is a habit handed down for many years. In China, there is a custom of winter solstice tonic. Old hen soup has always been considered as a nutritional supplement to properly supplement nutrition in winter. Although most people are in good condition now, the habit of drinking old hen soup continues.
Five, eat jiaozi.
Tangyuan is also essential. Anhui glutinous rice balls are too big to hold the second one in the bowl. Before the arrival of the winter solstice, every household has prepared a large number of sesame noodles for the winter solstice.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anhui Province