What food does Wuxi eat on the solstice in winter?

Eat jiaozi on the winter solstice in Wuxi.

Jiaozi usually refers to a kind of food steamed with glutinous rice stuffing, which tastes waxy, slippery, soft and delicious, including white jiaozi and green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is essential for Qingming every year, and jiaozi is also a Japanese snack.

The size of jiaozi depends on personal preference. If you pinch them too fine, they will break and the stuffing will be ugly. It's too thick, undercooked, and can't bite, and there is no such pleasure as eating with stuffing together. Jiaozi, which has just come out of the steamer, smells fresh rice, especially jiaozi, which is stuffed with bacon and qianzi bean curd. After biting, the smell is fragrant and floating around, making people drool.

There is also a kind of green jiaozi, which needs to be kneaded with wormwood, ramie or other plants blanched with lime water (to remove astringency), so that the dough becomes bright turquoise and the taste will be more tough. Different from white dumplings, the fillings of green dumplings are basically sweet, including bean paste and sesame seeds.

The custom of winter solstice:

1, eat jiaozi on the winter solstice.

As the saying goes: "Winter solstice jiaozi, summer solstice noodles." There is a legend in it. In ancient times, Dr. Zhang Zhongjing saw that people's ears would freeze in winter, so he put the medicine bag for treatment in flour and cooked it for these patients. After eating, my ears get hot, so I don't feel cold in winter, so there is a saying that I eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter.

2, eat indiscriminately from winter to day.

Eating wonton on the solstice in winter is very popular in Beijing, mainly because Huns and Tuns in the north have been invading the northern border. At that time, the soldiers and civilians were very angry, so they wrapped the meat in dough and cooked it, which was called chaos.

Worship ancestors and gods on the solstice in winter.

It's very cold from winter to Sunday. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year. When the winter solstice comes, some gods will actively offer sacrifices to their ancestors, so it was also called Ghost Festival in ancient times. Mainly to mourn the ancestors and pray for good weather and family happiness.