Does Hainan eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter?

In winter solstice, Hainanese generally don't eat jiaozi.

Mainly jiaozi, this kind of food is not common for Hainanese. On the contrary, Hainan people prefer to eat glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter. Tangyuan, a round and soft food, symbolizes reunion and beauty, and has the same meaning as jiaozi in the north. The Han residents in Hainan Island mainly migrated from different parts of the mainland and different historical periods, and inherited their ancestors' traditional customs, so some areas in Hainan have the custom of sweeping graves from winter to Sunday.

In Hainan, the winter solstice is also called "Little Tomb-Sweeping Day". When winter solstice is used to sweep graves, chickens and ducks are killed. All the family members come back to have a reunion dinner to worship their ancestors. It's very magnificent. Like China New Year, individual towns and villages in Wanning, the hometown of overseas Chinese, call the winter solstice festival "Cattle Feeding Festival", on which cows are given a rest.

Introduce Hainan traditional cuisine from winter to Sunday.

1, boiled chicken

Hainan white-cut chicken is the name of a meat dish, with delicious meat and high nutritional value, which makes people drool. In fact, Hainan people will eat chicken no matter what festivals. For them, if they don't eat jiaozi or glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter, they will eat boiled chicken.

2. Shan Lan glutinous rice

Every year on the "Winter Solstice Day" festival, every Miao family in Hainan uses Shan Lan glutinous rice as a cake rake to celebrate the joy of a bumper harvest. This kind of cake is eaten with homemade sucrose syrup and can be kept for several days without eating it at a time. It's cold in winter, and food is easy to harden. Roasting this kind of loquat on charcoal fire, and then expanding and softening, it is more sweet and delicious.