Introduction to the traditional customs of solar terms in beginning of winter

1, Beijing beginning of winter eats jiaozi.

The old Beijingers said, "beginning of winter fills the winter, not the mouth." Beginning of winter's rule is to eat jiaozi. There is a saying that "the north eats jiaozi and the south eats ducks". Because jiaozi looks like an ear, people think that if you eat it, your ear won't be frozen in winter. The so-called "beginning of winter runs amok for jiaozi Bowl, and nobody cares about frozen ears" is actually a joke, which is only popular among the people. According to the rules, beginning of winter will eat jiaozi stuffed with pumpkin on this day.

2. beginning of winter eats raw onions.

There is a proverb in Nanjing, "An onion and a half a day brings wind to the legs in winter". When they arrived in beginning of winter, the old Nanjing people paid special attention to eating raw onions to resist the cold and wet winter in Nanjing and reduce the incidence of diseases. According to the old man, 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 evil spirits are discharged with sweat. Nanjing people often say that "beginning of winter brushes the diseased dish, and the scallion is hot in his mouth". In order to be healthy after winter, Nanjing people also learn from northerners to eat raw onions at this time.

3. Eating mutton in beginning of winter, Taiwan Province Province.

In Bao Dao, Taiwan Province Province, there are winter nourishing restaurants such as "Mutton Stove" and "Ginger Duck" on the street during weddings and funerals. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken and siwu chicken to supplement energy. Mutton is warm, and it is easy to get angry if you eat it often. Chinese medicine pays attention to the dietotherapy method of "heat is cold". Therefore, when eating mutton, it must be accompanied by cool and sweet vegetables, which can play a role in cooling, detoxifying and removing fire. Cold vegetables generally include white gourd, towel gourd, rape, spinach, Chinese cabbage, Flammulina velutipes, mushrooms, lotus roots, water bamboo, Chinese cabbage and so on; Sweet potato, potato, mushroom, etc. It is a sweet vegetable.

4. beginning of winter, Chaoshan, Fujian, eats fried fragrant rice with sugarcane.

In Fujian and Chaoshan, beginning of winter wants to eat sugar cane and fried fragrant rice. 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.