Today is the winter solstice in the 24 solar terms, the winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night in the year, it is also a very important festival, the following is what food to eat during the winter solstice solar term (2023) for your reference!
What food to eat during the winter solstice
1.Dumplings: Dumplings, also known as "Jiaozi", is an ancient traditional noodle dish, northerners eat dumplings in Chinese New Year's Eve, and there is a folk proverb "October 1, winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings".
2.Wonton: Wonton is also a staple food that Suzhou people must eat during the winter solstice, and there is a local saying of "winter solstice wonton summer solstice noodles".
3.Mutton: Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the "four seasons and five supplements", among which "nourishment" in winter has become the most popular tonic method at present, as the saying goes"Thirty-nine make up for the end, and there will be no pain in the coming year".
4.Red bean sticky rice: In Jiangnan Water Town, there is a Xi for the whole family to gather together to eat red bean sticky rice on the night of the winter solstice.
5.Tangyuan: The tangyuan eaten on the winter solstice, also known as the winter solstice group, means a happy reunion, and the traditional family banquet will also be accompanied by osmanthus wine, rice cakes, etc.
What are the Xi customs of the winter solstice
1.Ancestor worship: In some areas, the traditional Xi of ancestor worship continues, and every household places ancestral statues and tablets in the upper hall of the home, places offering tables, and sets up incense burners and offerings.
2.Eat the winter solstice group: In some areas in the south, it is more popular to eat the winter solstice group, take its meaning of reunion, every winter solstice morning, each family grinds glutinous rice flour and wraps it into the winter solstice group, not only eats from the family but also gives relatives and friends to express blessings.
3.Eat rice cakes: Make three meals of different flavors of rice cakes on the winter solstice, eat rice cakes on the winter solstice, and grow taller every year.
4.Worship ancestors with nine-layer cakes: use glutinous rice flour to knead into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize auspiciousness, and then steam them in layers with a steamer to worship ancestors and show that they will not forget their ancestors.
The meaning of the winter solstice
The winter solstice, commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival" or "Ya Sui", etc., is not only an important solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation.
In ancient times, there was a "winter solstice as big as the year", in ancient times, people who drifted in other places had to go home for the winter festival at this time, the so-called "year-end home", in ancient times, there was "winter solstice and a yang sheng", that is to say, from the day of the winter solstice, yang energy slowly began to rise.
The meaning of the winter solstice
The ancients believed that when it came to the winter solstice, although it was still in the cold season, spring was not far away. At this time, everyone who goes out has to go home for the winter festival, indicating that there is a home at the end of the year. Fujian and Taiwanese folk believe that the winter solstice is a festival for the whole family to reunite every year, because on this day to worship ancestors, if you go out and do not go home, you are a person who does not recognize your ancestors.
Is the winter solstice the first day of the ninth month?
After the winter solstice, the climate in all parts of our country will enter the coldest stage, which is often referred to as "entering nine" and "counting nine cold days". The so-called "number nine" refers to the counting from the day of the winter solstice, nine days as a unit, called "nine", after nine "nine", just eighty-one days, that is, "out of nine" or "over nine". Counting from "one nine" to "ninety-nine", the cold winter will become the warm spring.
The ancients believed that the winter solstice was the key solar term for the transformation of yin and yang. Nine, the largest yang number in the number, is counted continuously.
One. Nine, twenty-nine, etc., means that the yin energy in winter gradually decreases, and the yang energy gradually rises, and it is the end of the nine times.
From a meteorological point of view, there is a cold wave roughly every nine days, and it often occurs in the last day or two of the previous nineFrom the psychological aspect, "nine" is homophonic with "long", which means that the winter is long, and I hope that spring will come soon.
A short and unique greeting for the winter solstice
1. Winter solstice, winter solstice, happiness will come.
2. In winter, my blessings may come late, but the warmth will not be postponed.
3. The most beautiful thing is winter, because you are with you.
4. Dumplings must be eaten, and blessings are advanced in advance.
5. The soup balls are rolling white jade soup, and the family is reunited and happy.
6. I wish the winter solstice a happy and perfect winter.
7. In the cold winter, pay more attention to keeping warm.
8. Eat more dumplings and have a happy winter solstice.
9. Happy and good luck accompany you all the way.
10. May you be happier on the winter solstice.