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What cereal does beginning of winter eat?

After beginning of winter, it means that this year's winter has officially arrived. From the perspective of TCM health care, the daily recuperation should focus on "nourishing Tibet". It is recommended to go to bed early and get up late, eat more yin-nourishing food in the diet, and start proper makeup. Vegetation withers, stingers sleep, and all activities tend to stop. Although there is no such thing as hibernation, there is a folk custom of making up for winter in beginning of winter.

1, South Hot Repair

In southern 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.

2. Northern jiaozi

In terms of dietary customs, beginning of winter has the custom of eating pumpkin and jiaozi. Why does beginning of winter eat jiaozi? Because our country is based on agriculture and attaches great importance to the 24 solar terms, "Festival" is a new growth point of vegetation. Autumn harvest and winter storage, this day, in order to improve our life, we chose "delicious but jiaozi". At the same time, in ancient times, melons were considered strong, so there was a saying in the Book of Rites that "eating melons was also a sacrifice first".