What are the traditional customs of solar terms in beginning of winter?

How do people from different regions cross beginning of winter? The beauty of time lies in its inevitable passage. Flowers in spring, moon in autumn, snow in summer and winter. Beginning of winter, here we come again. "Stand, make also; In winter, everything will be collected in the end. 」

People always have too much expectation and imagination for winter. Next, let's take a look at the folk food in early winter with Xiao Zhi!

North to eat dumplings

In the north of China, especially in Beijing and Tianjin, beginning of winter likes jiaozi. The old Beijingers said, "beginning of winter fills the winter, not the mouth." Because jiaozi looks like ears, people think that if you eat jiaozi, your ears will not freeze in winter. As the saying goes, "beginning of winter acts like a jiaozi bowl, who cares whether his ears are frozen or not".

Fujian eats sugarcane.

In many places in Fujian, beginning of winter wants to eat sugar cane. Sugarcane can become one of the foods for "supplementing winter" because there has always been a folk saying that "beginning of winter eats sugarcane without pain", which means that the sugarcane of "beginning of winter" is ripe and will not get angry after eating it. At this time, "eating sugar cane" can not only protect teeth, but also play a nourishing role.

Nanjing eats raw onions.

There is a proverb in Nanjing: "An onion and a half a day brings wind to your legs in winter." In beginning of winter, the old Nanjing people paid special attention to eating raw onions to resist the wet and cold winter in Nanjing and reduce the incidence of diseases. Onions are warm and pungent, which can make people sweat, so that the stagnant yang in the body is discharged with sweat, and the yang runs smoothly, and the pathogens are discharged with sweat.

Chao shan chi Xiang fan

The custom of eating "fragrant rice" in early winter in Chaoshan area actually existed in ancient times. As the saying goes, "Eat fragrant rice on October 10th", one of its origins is that autumn is the harvest season, and Chaoshan people use all kinds of harvested food to make fried rice and worship ancestors and gods. Second, it means "peace" and "harvest"!

Shaoxing fermented yellow rice wine

It is a traditional Shaoxing wine-making custom to start brewing yellow wine in beginning of winter that day. The low water cooling temperature in winter can effectively inhibit the growth of miscellaneous bacteria and make the wine form a good flavor in the process of low temperature and long-term fermentation. This is the most suitable season for wine fermentation.

Cold and warm wine, talking and laughing around the stove.

Frozen pen is lazy in writing new poems,

Cold stove, good wine and warm.

Drunk to see the ink flower and the moon white,

Snow is everywhere in this village.