Traditional solar food in severe cold.

1, rice cakes: The custom of eating "cold cakes" has a long history in Beijing. "Cold-dispelling cake" is a kind of rice cake, not only because its glutinous rice has a higher sugar content than rice, which makes the whole body feel warm after eating, and it has the effects of warming up the cold, moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen and stomach, but also because people choose to eat rice cake on the day of "severe cold", which also means "high year", which means good luck and good luck, peace every year and promotion step by step. Therefore, in the custom of old Beijing, on the cold day, the whole family eats rice cakes separately, which not only has auspicious taste, but also can dispel the chill on the body, so it is called "eliminating cold cakes".

2, glutinous rice: There is an old saying: "A slight cold has no wind and cold." It is a traditional custom to eat glutinous rice in the morning to drive away the cold in slight cold and severe cold. Folk believe that the sugar content of glutinous rice is higher than that of rice, and it feels warm after eating, which is conducive to driving out the cold. Traditional Chinese medicine theory holds that glutinous rice has the effect of tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi, and it is most suitable to eat glutinous rice in cold season. In addition, glutinous rice means warmth, and from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, "warm hat" is even more auspicious.

3, Babao rice: There is a folk saying that glutinous rice is eaten in the cold solar terms, because glutinous rice can nourish the human body's righteousness, and after eating it, it will cause fever all over the body, which will play a role in keeping out the cold and nourishing the stomach. The food made of glutinous rice is the most typical one. Steamed glutinous rice, mixed with sugar, lard and osmanthus fragrans, poured into a container filled with fruit materials such as red dates, coix seed, lotus seeds and longan pulp, steamed and poured with sugar marinade. It tastes sweet and is a good holiday and hospitality.

4. Chicken soup; In the cold winter, Nanjing people's daily diet is more stew and soup. The severe cold has reached the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the traditional eating custom of "one chicken" is still respected by many citizens' families. Nanjing people choose old hens, or stew them alone, or add ginseng, medlar, black fungus and so on. Drinking chicken soup in cold winter is really a pleasure.