Folklore solar terms are favored, winter solstice dumplings are hot
Many dumpling restaurants shut down take-out order software to ensure the supply of meals to the store
Sanxiang Metropolis Daily News, December 21 Today, Changsha has entered the “winter solstice” in the 24 solar terms. The folks have always said that “the winter solstice is as big as the year”, and dumplings have become one of the “must-eat items” for consumers. .
“I waited for half an hour before eating this bowl of hot dumplings.” At 11 noon, Changsha citizen Ms. Yang invited three or five friends to the Chaochao dumpling shop in Dao Cang Lane, Kaifu District. The queue outside the store waiting for the dumplings to be out of the pot lined up for nearly 10 meters. “When you walked to the nearby dumpling shops, you have to line up. It seems that there are really many Changsha people who like to join in the fun.”
Inside the store, three shop assistants were busy making dumplings. The meat fillings such as chives, cabbage, corn and so on that customers could choose from were all sold out; after hundreds of dumplings were poured into the pot and cooked, they were instantly Diners sold out. “Today I have to sell at least five or six thousand dumplings, which is totally unwinnable.” The female shopkeeper introduced that although the flour and pork fillings have been prepared in advance, the supply of dumplings is still in short supply.
In addition, because the number of people visiting the store far exceeded expectations, shops such as Shenyang Dumpling House and Yuan Jiyun Dumplings had to shut down the take-out order software to ensure the delivery. “The store provides 4 kinds of dumplings, including sauerkraut pork, cabbage pork, celery fresh meat, and corn fresh meat. It has sold more than 200 copies.” Hema Xiansheng Huachuang store manager introduced that dumplings are now packed and frozen in bags. Sales of dumplings have doubled.
■Text/Video All-Media Reporter Huang Yaping
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Changsha winter solstice has four treasures of meat, wine, fermented bean curd and mulberry leaves
Changsha local food columnist Ren Dameng once mentioned in the article “Old Changsha Winter Solstice: Cat Milk with Winter Solstice Meat and Glutinous Rice” mentioned that around the winter solstice, the north wind blew in the distance in the evening, which is convenient for Changsha people. It is used to make violent cured meat or wind-blown meat, so it is called “winter solstice meat”. On this day, there is also a custom of making fermented bean curd in Changsha. It is said that fermented bean curd made on this day has the best flavor. However, because of the belief in “tiger” in Changsha, fermented bean curd is called cat milk.
In addition, the Qing Dynasty “Changsha County Chronicles”, “Shanhua County Chronicles” and other chronicles have recorded: Changsha people sacrificed to the ancestors on the winter solstice, there were ancestral temples, and ancestral worship; various Hunan people’s notes and diaries also recorded: On the winter solstice, after the parents of each house entered the clan to worship their ancestors, they gathered together to drink winter solstice wine, which was the most solemn. Ren Dameng mentioned in the article, but now that most of the ancestral halls in Changsha have disappeared, the old custom of drinking winter solstice wine in a group has also disappeared invisibly; winter solstice wine has now become a historical term.
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