2. Generally, the sticky rice flour is ground in the afternoon, put into a cloth bag and crushed with stones. After a few hours, the foundation was squeezed dry; The next morning, the whole family got together, spread the wet sticky rice noodles into pieces, put them in a bamboo dustpan, and dried them in sunny days before the winter solstice. After drying in the sun, it is collected in a dry container, and some of it is taken out and processed into meatballs (Fuzhou dialect) and Yuanxiao when you like to eat next year.
In the early morning of the solar term from winter to Sunday, every household should "stir-fry rice", which is also called "rice time". After a cooked lump (large) is taken out of the pot, it is poured back and forth in the dipping materials such as fried soybean powder, fried black sesame powder and white sugar. Because the dough has a taste, it becomes a dessert after being dipped in soybean powder, black sesame powder and sugar.
4. In Fuzhou, the solar term from the winter solstice to the sun, like Aojiu Festival, is also a "filial piety festival". According to folklore, a young man went into the mountains to chop wood. After the injury, she was rescued by the female orangutan, forced to get married, and later gave birth to an eldest son. One day, the boy took advantage of the mother orangutan's absence and fled to the foot of the mountain with his eldest son. The eldest son cried and clamored for his mother. Because his mother likes to eat "polished rice", he sticks the cooked rice (pronounced "refined" in his hometown dialect) on the door frame during the winter solstice and solar terms. Mother found the fragrance and mother and daughter reunited.
5. This little story of "filial sons looking for mother beasts" was widely circulated in that year. Up to now, many Fuzhou people will serve a small bowl of "dragon-stirring and thin" and a small pot of cooked dough (salty) on the morning of the winter solstice festival, put on tableware, light incense and candles, and pay homage in front of the ancestral memorial tablet.
6. Some relatives also make small glutinous rice balls (the size of longan) on the eve of the winter solstice solar term, adding various seasonings; In the cold winter, a family gets together and eats just cooked dumplings, which means a family reunion.
7. With the worship of ancestors in the solar term, there are many nursery rhymes about the winter solstice in Fuzhou, such as "When rubbing rice, rub it together, mother hurts her brother, brother has a wife, and brother is single".
8. Because there are many sunny and dry days in the solar terms from winter to Sunday, it is also the prime time to brew your own red wine in a year. Putting it in a bottle before the solar term from winter to solar term can greatly reduce the bad taste of red wine or the possibility of Aspergillus flavus.
9. Folklore also has a custom about the solar term from the winter solstice, that is, if a person dies after the solar term from the winter solstice, he can add one year to his age when writing the obituary, without waiting for the next year, especially when the deceased is at the connection point of "Shangshou".