What traditional food does beginning of winter eat? What traditional food does southern beginning of winter eat?

1, red bean and glutinous rice. In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice at the beginning of winter night. According to legend, there was a man named Gong. His son was incompetent and evil. He died on the Winter Solstice. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

2. Sugarcane. There is a saying in Chaoshan area that "it doesn't hurt to eat sugar cane in beginning of winter". The ancestors of Chaoshan believed that eating sugar cane in early winter could not only protect teeth, but also nourish them. In winter, fragrant rice made of peanuts, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots is deeply loved by Chaoshan people.

3. Fried rice with chestnuts. In Shantou, every solar term pays attention to eating different seasonal foods. As the saying goes, "make up for a winter in September, and there will be no disease in the coming year", "make up for it in beginning of winter" and eat fried rice with chestnuts are unique customs in Shantou. It is said that when beginning of winter took the tonic that day, all the nutrients would be absorbed by the human body. Chinese herbal medicines used for nourishing medicated diet include ginseng, angelica, medlar, American ginseng, fish glue, pilose antler, Cordyceps, Poria, Astragalus, etc. The commonly used foods in medicated diet are black-bone chicken, partridge, pigeon, quail and duck.