What traditional food does beginning of winter eat?

Beginning of winter, which represents the beginning of winter, is one of the seasonal nodes that China people attach great importance to. Spring ploughing, summer harvest and winter storage, winter is the season to enjoy bumper harvest and rest. Beginning of winter is also one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient society, and it is a very important festival. In some parts of China, there are customs such as ancestor worship and drinking.

Beginning of winter "nourishes winter". In the past, every household had to cook the root soup, chopping the roots of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhus verniciflua, Litsea cubeba and Paeonia suffruticosa into pieces, cooking the thick root soup in a pot, removing the roots, and then adding chicken, duck, rabbit meat or pig's trotters and pig's bellies to cook. There are many kinds of grass roots and various formulas, but all of them can not be separated from the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening stomach and strengthening waist and knees.

In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi in beginning of winter. In order to improve your life in early winter, jiaozi is delicious, but it is not in jiaozi. In the north, it is the custom to eat jiaozi in winter, because jiaozi looks like ears. People think that if you eat them, your ears won't catch a cold in winter. In addition, jiaozi's homonym "jiaozi" means that winter begins at the turn of autumn and winter.

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. Therefore, Shaoxing people regard beginning of winter to beginning of spring in the second year as the most suitable time to brew yellow rice wine, which is called "winter brewing" to pray for happiness.

On this day in early winter, every village in Zhangzhou will celebrate the harvest with "winter harvest". After the glutinous rice is steamed, pour it into a stone mortar to make it tough and sticky, pull it to the size of a table tennis ball, and carefully knead it into a ball; Stir-fried peanuts, finely ground and mixed with sugar. The prepared rice cake is rolled with white sugar peanut powder and placed in a sea bowl. When eating, string a few pieces with chopsticks in one breath, just like a rattle, so it is also called "playing waves". To prepare a "winter meal", we must respect the land god and thank him for his generosity.