Glorystar Winter Solstice Greetings
The winter solstice is not only a very important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival in my country. The winter solstice is commonly known as “Winter Festival”, “Long Solstice Festival”, “Yasui”, etc. Therefore, the winter solstice can be said to be the most colorful of many solar terms. From ancient times to the present, there is a folk saying that “the winter solstice is as big as the new year” , regard it as important as “the beginning of the year”.
On the winter solstice, ancestors are worshiped. After the sacrifice, the Yan family gathers for dinner and shares the sacrifices.
Use rice flour to make glutinous rice balls or wrap wontons.
Cellared flowers are sold in the market.
Women offer shoes and socks to the elder, and the younger generation pays homage to the elder.
If a daughter goes home to visit relatives after getting married, she must return to her husband’s house that night.
Pickle meat, fish, chicken, duck and various vegetables to prepare for the New Year.
Nine people meet for a banquet and get together. From nineteen to ninety-nine, each person will be the host once, which is called a cold-relieving party.
Paint a plain plum branch with eighty-one petals in total. One petal is dyed every day, and when all the petals are dyed and ninety-nine come out, the spring color is deep, which is called the ninety-nine to relieve the cold.
Abstain from sexual intercourse, control sexual desires, rest more, be quiet and do not abuse, and pay attention to health preservation.
Winter Solstice customs in various regions
Guangzhou
“Winter is great for the new year” and “winter is fat for the new year” and “winter is fat for the new year” are proverbs that Guangzhou people have heard since childhood. The Winter Solstice seems to be more important than the Spring Festival, and the battle is bigger than the Spring Festival.
Nowadays, people in Guangzhou celebrate the winter solstice. Many families also make glutinous rice balls, poach chickens and kill ducks, and sit around with their families to have a sumptuous meal. Many Guangzhou people also choose to celebrate the festival in restaurants and reunite with their families, making every restaurant in large and small restaurants “vibrant”.
Tianjin
Tianjin people eat “bianshi with soup” during the Winter Solstice, which is to wrap dumplings in the shape of ears, cook them in a pot and eat them with soup and dumplings together.
“If you don’t bring dumpling bowls during the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care.”
Take the meaning of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice to keep your ears from freezing.
Yangjiang
When Yangjiang people celebrate the winter solstice, they will make salty glutinous rice balls, a local specialty and traditional delicacy, which means “family reunion, happiness and happiness”. Yangjiang people call glutinous rice balls “yuanzi”. They are different from ordinary glutinous rice balls. The filling is not wrapped in glutinous rice balls, but the glutinous rice balls are cut into powder. The glutinous rice balls filling is boiled in the soup. After smelling the aroma, the glutinous rice balls are added and cooked together.
Hangzhou
Eating rice cakes From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou like to eat rice cakes during the winter solstice. During the winter solstice, we make three meals of rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes with sesame powder mixed with white sugar. At noon, we eat fried rice cakes with braised vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, and shredded pork. For dinner, we eat rice cakes in soup with mustard mustard, shredded pork, and shredded bamboo shoots. Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will make you grow taller every year, which is auspicious.
Guangzhou Glorystar sends a wisp of love and blessings to you. When the yang energy is born, when winter passes and spring returns, I hope you will always be filled with spring-like warmth in the cold winter weather. I wish you a happy winter solstice and a happy family.
