Winter Solstice and Chinese New Year "is a well-known proverb that Guangdong people have heard since childhood. For Guangdong people, winter solstice is a very important festival. During the winter solstice, Guangdong region will eat some traditional foods. Let's take a look at what they are. For details, please refer to the following text
1. Chicken and Duck Pot
"Winter is a big New Year" and "Fat Winter, Thin Year" are proverbs that Guangzhou people have heard since childhood. When people in Guangzhou celebrate the winter solstice, they usually cook rice dumpling, kill chickens and ducks, and sit around with their families to have a big meal
2. Surrounding Stove
The edge stove is actually a gourd stove, which is a famous Han dish with a perfect combination of color, aroma, and taste. In Shunde, a family sits around the stove to celebrate the Winter Solstice, hoping for unity, warmth, and a good winter. We look forward to the safety and health of our family and welcome the Spring Festival together
3. Shuilan
Zhongshan's "rice dumpling" is not round, like an olive, so it is called "Shuilan". The filling is usually lotus seed paste or mung bean paste, with some chrysanthemum meat added
4. Salty rice dumpling
Yangjiang people will make the local characteristic traditional food - salty rice dumpling, which means "a family reunion, happiness". Yangjiang people call rice dumpling "yuanzi", which is different from ordinary rice dumpling. The stuffing is not wrapped in rice dumpling, but cut rice dumpling into powder particles. The rice dumpling stuffing is boiled in the soup. After smelling the fragrance, rice dumpling is boiled together
5. Wine boiled lamb
Hakka people call the winter solstice "wintering", and according to customs, every household should "eat a good meal". Before and after the Winter Solstice, Hakka people in Meizhou like to eat lamb and boil wine, believing that consuming it during the Winter Solstice season is beneficial to the body. Therefore, boiled lamb with wine has become a seasonal delicacy for Hakka people during the Winter Solstice. In addition, brewing Niang liquor on this day is also one of the most important customs in Meizhou region. This custom has been passed down for thousands of years and is still prevalent today. Early in the morning on the winter solstice, many villagers were busy brewing Hakka Niang liquor at home. Hakka people believe that the water taste is most mellow during the winter solstice
6. Winter dumplings
Winter dumplings are a traditional food that Daojiao people must eat during the winter solstice season (commonly known as "making winter"), consisting of glutinous rice skin and filling. The filling of winter dumplings is usually made from eyebrow beans as the main ingredient, and peanuts and other ingredients are also added, with two flavors: sweet and salty. A well made winter ball needs to be brushed with oil, then padded with banana leaves and steamed in a steamer
7. Ai Jiao
is a traditional snack of the Han ethnic group in Guangdong, belonging to the Cantonese cuisine. The main raw materials for making wormwood are wormwood and glutinous rice flour. The most important step in making "mugwort" is to first take local wild mugwort, boil it in boiling water, and then rub it into a fluffy shape on the back of a bamboo basket to make edible mugwort. Then mix Rice noodles to make flour crust, and make fillings with salty and sweet ingredients to form corners. The mugwort used for winter consumption in Huizhou is mostly made with salty ingredients. Traditional ingredients include shredded radish, lard residue, shrimp head, and five spice powder, which can be steamed and consumed