First of all, northerners generally like to eat pasta, so on the solstice of winter, you must eat jiaozi. The most common one is jiaozi stuffed with radish, which tastes particularly delicious. In the north, there is a saying that jiaozi must be eaten on the solstice in winter. If you don't eat it, your ears will rot easily in winter, and the shape of jiaozi looks particularly like ears.
Followed by the south, southerners generally prefer to eat rice, so they eat jiaozi in winter, which is a custom there. The most common one is jiaozi stuffed with black sesame seeds. They not only offered sacrifices to their ancestors, jiaozi, but in their eyes, they could live to be one year old after eating jiaozi.
And Beijing, the capital of our country. But on the solstice of winter, Beijingers really eat in disorder. Chaos is actually similar to jiaozi, except that it is cold in winter. Don't make people feel that eating some soup and water is warmer. For them, wonton is much more delicious than jiaozi. It is a comfort to drink some soup after eating steaming wonton.
Then Suzhou. Suzhou rice wine is very famous, so on the solstice of winter, they all drink rice wine brewed in winter, and usually add some osmanthus into these rice wine, which is called osmanthus rice wine. It is used to drive away the cold and musty smell, and together with various snacks, it is their most delicious thing from winter to day.
Finally, Hangzhou, the food in Hangzhou is very unique. People in Hangzhou eat rice cakes on the solstice in winter, and the rice cakes they eat three times a day are different. The sugar they eat in the morning is mixed with rice cakes. At noon, they eat fried rice cakes and at night, which means they are getting old.
Jiujiu, also known as Winter Jiujiu, is a folk solar term in China. The number nine begins at the end of winter in 65438+February of Gregorian calendar and ends on Everyone's Day. There is no exact information about when the custom of counting nine originated. However, it was popular at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. "The number of winter solstice days is 998 1 day, which is the end of cold."
Count nine cold days, that is, from the winter solstice, count nine every nine days, and keep counting until eighty-one days, and the weather will be warm. In fact, it is "99-99, plowing cattle everywhere"-90 days, which is 9 days.