The winter solstice customs

Winter solstice through thousands of years development, has formed a unique festive culture.Such as wonton, dumplings, dumplings, red bean porridge, millet rice cakes and so on all can be used as festival food.Once more into fashion "winter solstice and the old feast" many items, such as eat meat, offer a winter solstice, the winter solstice group, wonton thanks to winter, etc.

Traditional winter solstice customs

Eat dumplings

Winter solstice this day lunar calendar, rich or poor, rice dumplings is indispensable festival.

Zhang zhongjing's nanyang Lang edomite, his "theory of typhoid miscellaneous disease", set a subject, by past dynasties doctors as a classic.Zhang zhongjing has quotes: "back into salvation, and people;Not as good phase, as well as for the good."The eastern han dynasty when he served as changsha satrap, pesticide applying to disease, the lobby to practice medicine.Resolutely resigned after home, for the citizen. Its home, it is winter.Cold and hungry, he saw the white river on both sides of the folks sallow and emaciated, some people's ears were frozen rotten.Let its disciple in nanyang dongguan set up medical tents, pitched cauldron, on the day of the winter solstice shed "remove cold jiao ear soup" treating chilblain.He put the lamb and some cold medicine on pot boiling, then put the lamb chop, drug out, with a kind of bread into the ear "jiao ear", which has been boiled, give to those who ask medicine each two "jiao ear", a large bowl of soup.People ate "jiao ear" and a "remove cold soup", and warm, fever, two ears frostbite ears were cured.After learning the "jiao ear" appearance, package into food, also called "dumplings" or "dumpling".

Winter Solstice FestivalEat dumplings, is not forget "the medical sage" zhang zhongjing "remove cold jiao ear soup".Nanyang still have "the winter solstice misconduct dumplings bowl, frozen off ears nobody tube" folk song.

Yang away cold

Into nine later, some literati and scholar-bureaucrat flow, make the so-called cold activity, choose the "nine", meet nine people drinking (" wine "and" nine "homophonic), bench with nine plate nine bowl, into a table with" nine "seat, to take jiujiu away cold.

Folk is popular fill jiujiu cold figure for recreation.Yang cold figure is usually a double elimination MiaoHong calligraphy, there are numerous "weeping willow treasure before court for spring breeze" nine words, every word 9, eighty-one, starting from the winter solstice day according to the stroke order fill a stroke, every pieces of filling in a word, nor after until jiujiu, a cold jiujiu disappear figure in order to be home and dry.Add color according to the stroke used every day in the day's weather decision, sunny is red;Yin is blue;The rain is green;The wind is yellow;Then fill in the white.

In addition, there is the picture version of jiujiu cold figure, also known as "elegant", cold plum is drawing pictures on the nine branches, each branch of nine flower, a corresponding matters, a corresponding to a day, according to the actual weather every day with a specific color fill a plum blossom.Yuan dynasty Yang Yunfu recorded in the luanhe river Beijing miscellaneous poems: "try a few window between jiujiu figure, Yu Han as warm back early.Plum blossom point 徧 frank white, see today is apricot trees."

The most elegant jiujiu cold figure for nine body couplet.Nine strokes every nine words, every word, every day in different fill a ShangXiaLian, such as written with "spring waters hanging spring LiuChun dye spring beauty";Bottom allied with "autumn qiu yuan hang fall persimmon chou-heung", called jiujiu away cold Spring Festival couplets.However, no matter what kind of jiujiu cold figure, at the same time of killing time, entertainment body and mind, simple also recorded the climate change.Is said to have experienced the old man, can also according to Yang cold figure, infer how much rain this year and key.

Yang away cold song: province, ErJiu out;Keep on, 49 walk on the ice;Had to LiuJiu, see willows along the river;Seven JiuHe ice, to swallow;Yang added subsequently, cattle and go everywhere.

Modern midwinter folk

In many regions have the custom of worshiping the winter solstice this day, now there are still some places such as jiangsu and zhejiang, minnan area in winter solstice this day is a holiday to celebrate.

Also have with the weather of the winter solstice and folk to successively, to predict the weather in the future.Proverb says: "the winter solstice in the first, to the end of the cold;In colder winter solstice in each month, in the first month;The winter solstice in months, no snow didn't cream "(which is based on the arrival of the winter solstice, sooner or later speculated that the arrival of cold morning and evening).Proverb says: "the winter solstice black, New Year's day thin;Winter solstice hydrophobic, celebrate the black "(means: the winter solstice this day without the sun, so New Year's day must be a sunny day, on the contrary, if the winter solstice sun, New Year's day will beIt rains)。

Traditional diet

Winter solstice is the opportunity of preserve one's health, mainly because of "gas began in winter".Because from the beginning of the winter, start by turning tide life activity, by regulated static.Now science health help ensure exuberant energy and prevent premature aging, prolong life.Winter solstice diet should be diverse, valley, fruit, meat, vegetable &fruit reasonable collocation, appropriate chooses high calcium food.

Around the winter solstice has different customs, in the north, people will eat dumplings, the tradition of eating wonton, southern region in the day to eat rice dumpling and long noodle, and at the time of the winter solstice subei people eat leeks Fried tofu.

Beijing wonton

There used to be "the summer solstice winter solstice wonton noodles in the old Beijing".From the han dynasty, the northern xiongnu often harassed the frontier, and the people.At the time the huns tribes have muddy and the chariot's two princes, ferocious.It is anathema to the people, then wrapped meat into corners, "muddy" and "chariot" voice, calling for "wonton".Hate to eat and to quell the war, can live a peaceful life.For initially made wonton is the winter solstice this day, every family on the winter solstice day to eat wonton.

dumplings

Winter solstice this day lunar calendar, rich or poor, rice dumplings is indispensable festival.Proverbs cloud: "October, the winter solstice that every household to eat dumplings."This custom, it is because of the memory of "the medical sage" zhang zhongjing winter solstice medicine left.

Dog meat

The winter solstice the custom of eating dog meat is starts from the han dynasty.According to legend, the emperor gaozu liu bang had hurried to cook in the winter solstice this day of dog meat, feel special taste delicious, full of praise.From now on in the folk form the custom of the winter solstice to eat dog meat.People are in the winter solstice this day, to eat dog meat, mutton, and all kinds of nourishing food, in order to have a good one million next year.

Red beans and rice

In the south of the lower reaches of the yangze river, there is the winter solstice eve the whole family together, a total of the tradition of eating red bean sticky rice.According to legend, gong gong's have no wit, evil, died in the winter solstice this day, become ghosts, after the death of continue killing people.However, the most afraid of the ghosts of red bean, as a result, the people is cooked on the day of winter solstice eat red bean meal, to ward off evil spirits, disaster prevention illnesses.

Taiwan's delicious cake

Taiwan in China also keep the tradition of the winter solstice with nine layer cake ancestor worship, glutinous rice powder molded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cattle, sheep and other symbol propitious like ferro longevity of animals, and then use bamboo steamer layered steamed into, used to worship ancestors, to show does not forget ancestors.Namesake consanguinity agreed on or before and after the winter solstice at an early date, set to the ancestral shrine in sequence according to his birthright, ancestor worship, commonly known as the "ancestor worship".After the festival, will also big banquets, entertain to ancestor worship of the clan.You drink, very unfamiliar feeling, contact each other after referred to as "food."Winter festival ancestors, has been passed from generation to generation in Taiwan, in time for their "roots".Carrots, vegetables, tofu, black fungus, and so on.

Taizhou rolling round

Taizhou people good food, the winter solstice is important solar term, a year on this day to do some dishes and food, first of all, worshiping ancestors, praying ancestors bless family peace all year.Then the whole family together with joydrinkingEat food.Which eat "winter solstice circle" (rolling circle, also called hard rolling circle, turn over the rough circle) is taizhou old tradition, rolling round pick up since, meaning reunion.

On the circle is the star of the winter solstice, "round" mean "reunion" "complete", compared with the daily to eat dumplings, linhai people different winter solstice circle not only rich in content, form, and meaning.Rolling circle is made of glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice powder and warm water first knead into dough, knead again into vinegar dish size mariko circle, which has been boiled in bean yellow powder rolling mix, because the process of linhai dialect called "rolling", so the winter solstice circle named "rolling circle", and bean yellow powder made with beans grind into powder and then stir until cooked. Stir in brown sugar, sweet flavour is full-bodied, with glutinous rice round delicate delicious soft, increase appetite.A rolling round with flour, strike on a bite, delicious, pleasantly sweet, warm, soft, the taste of a happiness arises spontaneously.In addition to the classic sweet circle, there are a lot of home like salty circle on the winter solstice, salty circle is filling is put in glutinous rice group, like pork, bean curd cake, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, carrots, white radish and other fine, can be steamed cook, delicious juicy, otherwise a taste.

Suzhou winter wine

Gusu region of winter solstice attach great importance to the throttle gusu areas they cloud: "the winter solstice, such as annual".Traditional gusu somebody else, you will be in the winter night to drink wine, winter winter wine is a kind of rice wine, add osmanthus brewing, pleasant aroma.Gusu people in winter solstice winter night drinking wine at the same time, still can match with spiced beef, stewed mutton, etc all kinds of keeping.In the cold winter, winter wine to drive not only cold, but also for gusu people to the life of a good wish.

Hemp Ci

A specialty of hemp Ci, zhejiang, jiangxi, and fujian, the traditional snacks, fujian, sacrificial offerings.Ma Yin dry sand steamed, Fried, grilled, Fried after all appropriate.

Hemp Ci is also a famous snack, which produce with Southampton UK is the most famous, the raw material for superior glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut, sugar, etc.Resistance to hungry after hemp Ci sweet and delicious, the food, have the taste of the sweet, smooth, soft and tough, micro ice.Product color bright white, smooth toughening transparent.