Tianyao pill for the tidal winter solstice

CalendarThe Winter Festival is a traditional festival in China since the Jin Dynasty.

The ancients thought that "the winter solstice is born, And everything wakes up ." Although it is still in the cold season, people have heard the breath of spring. It is said that the winter solstice in the Han Dynasty has the customs of "entering wine and drinking wine, and greeting the elders. Since Song and Yuan Dynasties, the tide and customs have been prevalent in taking sweet pills.

Sweet pills are not only made from glutinous rice flour and water rubbing pills, but also the most representative food on the winter solstice. Before the winter festival, housewives had glutinous rice flour (mostly mechanical rolling), and some sent to friends and friends. Early in the morning of the winter festival, adults and children often sat around bamboo or big plates, respectively extracted from glutinous rice flour and water in advance to stir into a powder group, with two hands into a ball like a bullet ball, it is called "dongjiewan ". "Winter Festival pills" indicates that the whole family is full at the twilight. Some "dongjie pills" are also filled with orange cake, melon sugar, bean sand, and other ingredients, commonly known as "duck Mother". "dongjie pills" can be freely rubbed in varying sizes, take "Gongsun pills" as a good sign.

Dongjie sweet pills are generally cooked before dawn. After the family members get up, they all need to eat a bowl of "dongjie pills". Chaoshan has a saying that "dongjie pills, a food, and a Chinese New Year, it is also known as "Tian Nian", indicating that although the year has not passed, everyone is one year old. The children are most eager to eat this bowl of sweet pills. Do they often wake up at night to ask if the sky is bright? However, tianxiao seems to be joking with the children, and it is always not bright. Therefore, there is a nursery saying that "Winter Festival night, hello long, sweet pills have not been boiled. In fact, on the day of the winter solstice, the night time is the longest. After the winter solstice, it gradually becomes shorter.

In the past, the urban and rural areas in the city of Chaoshan also worship the "Commander-in-law" with sweet glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice to prepare three sacrifices for ancestor worship and grave scanning customs. The winter solstice grave scanning is called "Winter paper ". After the death of a person for less than three years, the descendant's grave scanning should be "Spring paper" during the Tomb Sweeping Day, and then "Winter paper ". The winter solstice grave sweeping, because the winter rain, the sun is enough, it is more convenient to hold ancestor worship in the mountains, also take this outing, play an entertaining role.

 

Tianyao pill for the tidal winter solstice