December 22, the farthest time from the Tropic of Cancer, is also the coldest day in the Northern Hemisphere, and Ginkgo Village is no exception!

The winter solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, but most people don't know that the origin of the winter solstice actually came from a national-level capital city plan. As early as more than 3,000 years ago, Zhou Gong began to use the Tugui method to measure the shadow, in Luoyi to measure the position of the world, and set this as the soil, which had political significance at that time, but became one of the festivals that influenced later generations for thousands of years.

When Zhou Gong arrived in Luoyang, he used the Tugui method to measure the place where Luoyang was located as "in the middle of the world", and then began to divinate the auspicious place of the national community. "Shangshu Luohe" records: Zhou Gong "as for Luoshi", made an investigation of several places around Luoyang, and finally determined that Jianshui East, Qianshui West, and Qianshui East are all "Weiluo food" (all good places to build Zongmiao Sheji).

The historical fact that Zhou Gongtong Guò selected the base site of Luoyi in the "Tugui Survey" was recorded in the ancient classics, and was also regarded by later generations as the law of feudal statehood.

The winter solstice is a great time to maintain health, mainly because "qi begins on the winter solstice". Because from the beginning of winter, life activities begin to change from prosperity to decline, from movement to stillness. At this time, scientific health preservation helps to ensure vigorous energy and prevent premature aging, so as to achieve the purpose of prolonging life. During the winter solstice, the diet should be varied, with a reasonable mix of grains, fruits, meat and vegetables, and high-calcium foods should be appropriately selected.

Various places have different customs during the winter solstice, and after thousands of years of development, a unique seasonal food culture has been formed, and eating dumplings has become the custom of most Chinese on the winter solstice. Of course, there are exceptions, such as the custom of drinking mutton soup on the day of the winter solstice in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, which means to drive away the cold.

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The Winter Solstice Festival is also known as the Winter Festival and the Winter Festival. It is one of the 24 solar terms, a traditional festival in China, there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year", the court and the people have always attached great importance to it, and there have been sacrificial activities since the Zhou Dynasty.

The Xiao family moved from the Central Plains, although it has gone through hundreds of years of wind and rain, but many traditional customs have not dissipated, but because of the years and glowing with unique charm.

Although the Xiao family will not worship the ancestral hall or ancestors on the day of the winter solstice, it is always essential to prepare all kinds of delicious food.

The day of the winter solstice. The Xiao family who was close to home had to rush home for a reunion dinner. And the old lady and other elders also regard this day as an important festival.

Compared with previous years, there is another Xiao Feng family, so this year's winter solstice is more lively!

As soon as Xiao Feng ate at noon, he saw that the eldest sister had already begun to knead dough in the kitchen. This time. He naturally took over the task of kneading the dough. Acts as a coolie.

You must know that there are dozens of people in the whole family, and the dumpling skin alone will cost more than ten catties. The Xiao family is not used to kneading noodles with a machine, once they want to make dumplings, it all depends on their hands!

While Xiao Feng was kneading the dough, Xiao Jinhao and Xiao Qiang, father and son, carried a slaughtered lamb with skin into the kitchen and began to deal with it.

In fact, not only the land of Qilu has the habit of mutton soup on the day of the winter solstice, but also in the cold region of southwest China, it is also a very important custom to use warm mutton soup to drive away cold and nourish in winter during the winter solstice.

The Xiao family has settled in northwest Yunnan for hundreds of years, and naturally they are also following the customs, not only to make dumplings and eat dumplings on this day, but also to make a steaming pot of mutton soup is naturally indispensable.

The lambs used by the Xiao family come from the local black goats in the 'Jinghu Ranch', which are raised in the pasture because they have not been fed feed and various hormones, and the meat is tender and has no fishy smell.

Nowadays, this kind of black goat, which is priced as high as 988RMB, has become another signature food product of Jinghu Ranch, and the average price of live sheep is as high as 25RMB/catty, which is much more expensive than ordinary goats. Even so, the lambs slaughtered by these Jinghu black goats every day will be snatched up by people, and eventually become a delicacy in the mouths of tourists!

Early this morning, Xiao Jinhao and Xiao Qiang personally went to the sheepfold of the ranch to select this juvenile ram with a total weight of more than 40 catties, and sent it to the slaughterhouse for processing before feeding.

If it was replaced before, most of the processes such as slaughtering and dehairing would have to be done by Xiao Jinhao himself on the dam, but after having a slaughterhouse, it would be much more convenient.

No, carrying the cleaned sheep back to the kitchen, Xiao Jinhao began to do it.

I saw his snow-white blade flying up and down, cramping and dismantling the goat's bones like a cow, and in a short time the flesh and bones were separated.

Bones and offal are tossed into a cauldron and simmered over slow heat, and in the afternoon it is a steaming, fragrant pot of mutton soup.

The whole process seems simple, but if it is replaced by another person, he may not be able to lift weights like Xiao Jinhao, after all, his decades of skills are not covered!

Like most delicacies, the Xiao family's mutton soup pot is not only extremely particular about the raw materials, but also the processing of various ingredients and secret recipes makes people from the outside world think about it.

The mutton soup pot boiled by the Xiao family has a cool color and restrained aroma, and the warm breath after the stomach is probably incomparable to other mutton soup pots! In the soup pot, Xiao Jinhao added all kinds of nourishing herbs, and paid attention to the process of making zuò, and the taste was naturally excellent.

In fact, after entering the end of November, the 'Xiao Family Private Restaurant' has begun to launch the mutton soup pot and other nourishing soup pots for winter health, although each one is worth a lot of money, but it is still very popular with diners, and the supply exceeds demand.

The price of a mutton soup pot in the 'Xiao family's private restaurant' is 168RMB, and a 40-kilogram head can make at least 20 copies of the 'Xiao family's secret mutton soup pot', and the profit can be imagined!

Today, Xiao Jinhao naturally attaches more importance to making zuò mutton soup pot for his home, from the selection of ingredients to cooking, it is all done by himself, and after a while, a strong aroma emerges in the kitchen.

Xiao Jinhao's actions were swift, and Xiao Feng's side was not far behind, and after a while, more than a dozen catties of flour were kneaded, put in a large basin and began to wake up.

"Sure enough, Brother Jiu is the most suitable for kneading dough!" Watching Xiao Feng flick his hands and command the dough with more than 20 catties of dough with water, Xiao Qiang couldn't help but sigh!

In the past, when making dumplings at home on the winter solstice and Chinese New Year's Eve, most of the work of kneading noodles, which perfectly combines body lì and technology, was divided by everyone and finally took shape.

But since Xiao Feng came back, all the kneading work has been handed over to him, and everyone is amazed at Xiao Feng's strength in his hands, and they also expressed great recognition of his excellent kneading results!

There is no way, now that Xiao Feng has cultivated the Qi Induction Technique, his body has evolved a little towards the non-human Cheng Dù, but it is not convenient for him to come out in many cases. Kneading dough is nothing less than a trivial matter for Xiao Feng!

"Just you kid talk a lot!" Xiao Feng patted Xiao Qiang's shoulder, a large cloud of white mist flew out, and said, "Hurry up and pack all kinds of side dishes with the eldest sister and send them over quickly!"

In the winter solstice in the past two years, Xiao Feng has undertaken work that requires a long labor force such as kneading dough and chopping stuffing, who told him to have a pair of arms that don't know how to be tired?

After a while, Xiao Qiang brought over a huge basket, and Xiao Feng was a little dazed!

In order to take care of the different tastes of the family, there are many types of dumpling fillings, including pork cabbage, mutton sauerkraut, leek eggs and other varieties, which is a lot of work!

However, after participating in the banquet of hundreds of people, Xiao Feng is completely immune to the vegetables in front of him, and he will not feel too embarrassed about himself.

I saw Xiao Feng holding a knife in both hands, flying up and down on the board quickly, 'Dong Dong Dong', full of rhythm and rhyme, and soon infected the surrounding family members, and even a few little radish heads rushed in to ask when they could eat dumplings?

With the full cooperation of Xiao Feng and Xiao Jinhao, today's various ingredients have been processed into several common delicacies of the Xiao family regardless of cost, arousing everyone's gluttony.

The mutton soup pot with cool color and rich varieties of dumplings make the Xiao family extremely happy, after all, in such a cold winter, it is naturally a pleasant thing to eat dumplings and mutton soup pot!

Everyone seems to have figured out how to celebrate the arrival of real winter!

As the saying goes, 'Winter is coming, will spring be far away?'

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The winter solstice is the day of the year with the shortest daylight hours. After the winter solstice, the direct sun point gradually moves northward, and the days in the northern hemisphere gradually become longer, and the nights gradually become shorter. In addition, the winter solstice began to "count nine", and the winter solstice became the first day of "number nine".

Regarding the "number nine", the folk folk ballad says, "19 and 29 do not shoot, 39 and 49 walk on the ice, 59 and 69 look at the willows along the river, 79 rivers open, 89 swallows come, 99 plus 19 ploughing cattle go everywhere." ”

From the winter solstice, the temperature in the northern hemisphere begins to rise, but the village of Ginkgo biloba in the northwestern Yunnan Plateau has not yet reached the warming season, because the minimum temperature around New Year's Day is estimated to hover around zero degrees Celsius.

However, such temperature conditions are very conducive to the maintenance of 'Jinghu Ski Resort' and the development of many ice and snow tourism projects in 'Jinghu Scenic Area'.

Because of last year's success, this year, Yang Yuanhang has planned many ice and snow projects according to the specific situation of the Jinghu Scenic Area, waiting for tourists to flock to it!

No, just after the winter solstice festival has passed, the second day of the Ginkgo Village begins to be wrapped in silver, tourists from southern Yunnan and even other nearby identities can arrive at Ginkgo Village one after another, and their arrival makes the whole village fall into a lively carnival!

Winter does not mean loneliness, but also a different kind of noise! (To be continued......