What are the living habits of beginning of winter in the 24 solar terms?

1. In Tengzhou and early winter, there is a custom of drinking mutton soup. In cold weather, drinking a bowl of steaming mutton soup is definitely a pleasure. Moreover, mutton also contains a lot of fat, protein and abundant calories, which has an excellent function of keeping out the cold.

2. Nowadays, some places celebrate beginning of winter in innovative ways. In Harbin, Heilongjiang, Shangqiu, Henan, Yichun, Jiangxi, Wuhan, Hubei and other places, winter swimmers welcome the arrival of winter in this way.

In the south of China, people like to eat some chicken, duck and fish in early winter. On this day in early winter in Taiwan Province Province, the "mutton stove" and "ginger duck" on the street complement the restaurant wedding in winter. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken and siwu chicken to supplement energy.

People in the north of China, especially those in Beijing and Tianjin, like to eat jiaozi. Sex comes from the saying "at the time of sexual intercourse". Lunar New Year's Eve is the alternation of the old year and the new year, and beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter, so jiaozi can't help eating when he is having sex. Speaking of beginning of winter eating jiaozi, it is said that when Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, retired and returned to his hometown in his later years, many people's ears were frozen when he saw the cold weather. He set up a big pot by the Yellow River, put mutton, pepper and medicinal materials in it to boil, then took it out and chopped it up, wrapped it in a dough like an ear, and cooked it in the pot. The shape is the same as the ear, and jiaozi is wrapped in these fillings. Therefore, the old man who eats jiaozi in beginning of winter is also called "An Er", and there is even a saying that "beginning of winter messed up the jiaozi bowl, and no one cares whether his ears are frozen".

Manchu people have the custom of burning incense. Beginning of winter, as soon as autumn grain is put into storage, this season is the active season for Manchu Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners to burn incense and worship their ancestors. The sacrifice of the Eight Banners in the Han Dynasty is called "the incense of burning flags to jump the tiger god", and the Eight Banners of human beings are called "the incense of burning meat". During the 5-7 days of "burning meat", during the first three days of ancestor worship, the whole family was vegetarian for ten consecutive days and did not eat meat.