What are the eating customs in cold season?

The Gregorian calendar will end in 2020, but the lunar calendar is not over yet. Only after the arrival of the last severe cold in the 24 solar terms will the Lunar New Year end. For most parts of the south, the great cold is the coldest solar term in a year. Then, in the cold "Great Cold" solar terms, what are the eating customs in various regions? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao!

What traditional food do you eat in the cold season?

The traditional foods eaten in the Great Cold Festival mainly include eight-treasure rice, rice cakes, glutinous rice, eight-treasure porridge and rice cakes. There is a folk saying that people eat "glutinous rice" in the cold season, and the most typical glutinous rice food is eight-treasure rice and glutinous rice.

In Guangdong, before the severe cold comes, every household will cook a pot of fragrant glutinous rice mixed with bacon, dried shrimps, dried squid and mushrooms to welcome the coldest day in the traditional solar terms. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, and has the effect of keeping out the cold and nourishing. Due to the transition from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, cultured families have also adapted to the seasonal changes in diet.

Ningbo Shuimo Rice Cake should be famous. After soaking in the spring water of japonica rice for 24 hours, control the water and polish the nectar, so it is called "water mill". Finally, squeeze into powder, knead dough and steam. Naked rice cakes, which taste like teeth, are usually fried and boiled in soup.

Ciba is a kind of rice cake food made of steamed and mashed glutinous rice, which is popular in southern areas such as Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan and Hubei. It tastes softer and more sticky than rice rice cakes, and it is mostly eaten with sugar, which is sweet.