Will the food eaten in different parts of the north and south be different from winter to sun?

This is also the solstice of winter. Although it is a solar term, it is also one of the traditional festivals, so people pay more attention to it. There is a folk proverb that "the solstice in winter is as big as a year", which shows that people attach importance to this solar term. On such an important day, of course, eating traditional food is indispensable. The food eaten in winter in the north and south of the solstice is also different. Let's share with you the delicious food of winter solstice in the north and south.

1. Winter solstice cuisine in northern China: 1. Mutton During the solar term from the winter solstice, there is a custom of eating mutton in the northern region. Because the temperature enters the coldest stage after the solar term from winter to solar term, eating a pot of stewed mutton at this time has two-way effects of keeping warm, nourishing and keeping healthy. Mutton is warm, can resist cold syndrome, tonify the body, and has therapeutic effects on cold syndrome, wheezing, renal overdraft, erectile dysfunction, deficiency of qi and blood, backache and leg weakness, cold limbs and abdominal pain, and dark complexion. In winter, the human body is full of qi and blood, and the spleen and kidney are deficient, so it is very easy to have cold hands and feet, plain appearance and weak body, while mutton is sweet but not greasy, warm but not dry, and has been regarded as the top grade of nourishing yin and strengthening yang for many years.

2. Wonton In Beijing, there is a two-part allegorical saying called "Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice Wonton Noodles". In the past, there was a view in Beijing that wonton was eaten during the winter solstice and the solar term. Wonton, which represents family reunion, can be said to be the first choice on the table of winter solstice and solar terms. Wonton has various names, such as Wonton in most areas such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Wonton Noodles in Guangdong, Bao Mian in Hubei, Baitang in Jiangxi, Wonton in Ma Lao in Sichuan and Ququ in Xinjiang.

During the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the northern region often harassed the border, and the people were restless. At that time, the Xiongnu tribe had two leaders, Xiongnu and Tun, which were very cruel. People hate it so much that they wrap it into a corner with dumpling stuffing, which is called "wonton" and has the sound of "muddy" and "swallowing" I hate eating, and I want to quell the war and live a peaceful life. Because wonton was originally made on the solstice of winter, every household eats wonton on the solstice of winter in Beijing.

3. Dog Meat Some people with weak constitution and rheumatism are good at eating more dog meat in cold winter. But it is not suitable for blindly following the trend to eat dog meat to prevent rabies virus from taking rabies meat. Dog meat is a hot food and is not suitable for eating too much at one time. Anyone suffering from dry cough, fever, cold, fever, diarrhea, internal heat due to yin deficiency and other non-yin-deficiency sexually transmitted diseases should not take it.

4. In jiaozi, there is a custom of eating jiaozi in the north of China. There are many folk stories about eating jiaozi in winter solstice, and the core point comes from Zhang Zhongjing.

2. China southern winter solstice cuisine: 1. Tangtuan probably began gradually in the Song Dynasty, and people in China ate it at the Lantern Festival. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan people will also pack jiaozi to worship their ancestors during the winter solstice solar terms and give them to the Kitchen God. Lu Gu wrote in Volume XI of Jia Qinglu (1830): "Bihu Lake is ground into powder, stuffed with sugar, meat, beans, sand and shredded reed, as a sacrifice to Kitchen God and as a gift, which is called' Winter Solstice Air Mass'".

Among them, jiaozi is also divided into different sizes. The big one with stuffing is called Zongzi, which is a sacrifice to ancestors at night, and the small one without stuffing is a sacrifice to the gods in the morning.

2. Cantonese Roast Meat On the day of the winter solstice solar term, most Cantonese people have the custom of "putting meat" and eating meat during the winter solstice solar term. Among them, Cantonese roast meat is an indispensable traditional food on the table of Guangdong people in winter solstice and solar terms. In addition to ancestor worship, the family prepared some sausages and bacon sausages in advance to pray for good luck in the coming year.

Bacon has long been on the table, and it is not just sausages, preserved fish, sausage bacon, preserved duck, preserved chicken and so on. And a pot of oily and hot bacon clay pot rice has inadvertently captured everyone's pursuit of perfection and delicacy.

3. Sweet pills were circulated in the solar terms of the solstice in the Han Dynasty, and there was a custom of "drinking and cooking, and paying tribute to the elderly". Sweet pills have been popular since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Sweet pill is a kind of sweet soup, which is made by grinding fermented rice into powder and rubbing it into pills with water. It is a symbolic food on the day of saving energy from winter to Sunday. Before the solar term from the winter solstice, housewives of farmhouses made sticky rice noodles one after another (now it is more common to see mechanical equipment rolling), and some of them were given to relatives and friends for mutual gifts.

On the morning of the winter solstice solar term, adults and children at home usually sit around a bamboo gourd or a big plate, get powder balls made of sticky rice flour and water in advance, and knead them into marbles with their hands, which are called "winter solstice solar term pills". "Winter solstice holiday pills" represent a complete family at the end of the year. Some "winter solstice holiday pills" are also filled with orange cakes, melon candy and bean paste, and are nicknamed "Mother Duck". "Winter Solstice Festival Pills" can be rubbed at will, with different sizes, so taking "Gongsun Pills" will bring good luck. In Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, there is a folk proverb, "Sun pills are eaten from the winter solstice, and the Spring Festival will be celebrated as soon as they are eaten", which is also called "adding new year", which means that although the new year has not passed, everyone has added a year.

4. Nine-layer cakes Taiwan Province Province also preserves the traditional style of offering nine-layer cakes to ancestors during the winter solstice and solar terms. Knead sticky rice noodles into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other small animals representing good luck and happiness, and then steam them in layers in a steamer for ancestor worship to show that they will not forget their ancestors.