The beginning and significance of solar food in winter.

Beginning of winter, a northerner, wants to eat jiaozi, because there is a saying in jiaozi called "the time of copulation", and beginning of winter is the time when autumn and winter alternate. Besides, because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot and has a beautiful meaning, beginning of winter wants to eat jiaozi.

2. Tangyuan

Beginning of winter wants to eat glutinous rice balls in some areas in the south. Tangyuan is round, symbolizing reunion. After beginning of winter, the weather is cold, and the human body needs more energy to cope with the cold. Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice or rhubarb rice, which has a good effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and is more suitable for eating in winter.

3. Mutton

Eating mutton in early winter is not only meaningful, but also delicious and warm. Beginning of winter, also known as "winter season", has the folk custom of "winter supplements winter". The ancients thought that when it was cold, it was necessary to supplement the body nutrition.

4. Ginger Duck

During the beginning of winter solar term, people in southern Fujian, China and Taiwan Province Province have the traditional custom of eating ginger duck. Ginger duck is a traditional dish, which originated in Quanzhou, Fujian Province in modern times, and then spread to Taiwan Province Province of China and all over the country. Duck meat means keeping your family healthy in cold winter.

5. Bacon paella

Old Suzhou people will choose to eat a bowl of bacon and paella on this day. Fat and lean fresh meat with scrubbed vegetables and rice. Rice is cooked in a brick stove with straw as fuel, which means good health.