What's the saying about eating longan and boiled eggs on the solstice in winter?

Eating longan and boiled eggs on the solstice in winter means that eating it can warm a winter. So every winter solstice night, the family will cook a pot of longan and boiled eggs. In winter solstice night, eating a bowl of longan boiled eggs can not only satisfy hunger, but also play a nourishing role. The custom of eating longan and burning eggs on winter nights has continued to this day.

On the day of winter solstice, it is common to eat a bowl of boiled eggs with two spoonfuls of brown sugar. Crush the egg in sugar water, dip it in and take a bite, then eat a soft glutinous longan and a sweet soup. It's really sweet and warm to my heart, sweet and warm for a whole year.

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Festival custom

south

Many places in southern China will celebrate the winter solstice. Winter solstice is a traditional festival to worship the heavens and ancestors, and it is one of the eight major festivals in a year. On this day, people should worship their ancestors to God. There is a saying that "the winter festival is as big as a year, and it will never come back." People who go out must go home to worship their ancestors on the solstice of winter. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different.

After the ancestor worship ceremony, there is usually a big banquet to entertain the people who come to worship their ancestors. Everyone drinks heartily and contacts each other with long-lost feelings. Many places regard the winter solstice as a festival of reunion.

north

In many parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." North China will eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi means "dispelling cold". Up to now, there is a folk proverb that "on the solstice of winter, jiaozi bowls are improper and nobody cares about frozen ears".