Hygienic customs of slight cold in various places

The arrival of slight cold marks the arrival of the coldest season of the year. Although the slight cold is not as profound as the winter solstice in solar terms, it is also an important festival in Guangning customs. Let's take a look at how they keep in good health during the slight cold season.

Guangdong: Eat glutinous rice.

Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped onions and mix in rice.

Nanjing: Eat vegetable rice.

In ancient times, Nanjing people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and now people can only find some traces in their lives.

During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge.

The slight cold season is also the busiest time for old Chinese medicine practitioners and Chinese pharmacy. Generally, I have eaten almost all the paste cooked in winter. At this time, some people will cook more and eat it before and after the Spring Festival.

Residents' daily diet is also dominated by warm foods, such as mutton and dog meat, among which mutton soup is the most common, and some restaurants also provide angelica and ginger mutton soup. In recent years, some traditional winter mutton dishes have reappeared on the dining table, reappearing the cold winter eating customs in Nanjing.

As the saying goes, "a slight cold is cold, and it turns into a hockey." Nanjing people have a set of regional physical exercise methods in the slight cold season, such as skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, rolling iron rings, squeezing oil residue (squeezing walls), fighting cocks (propping up on one foot and fighting independently) and so on. If it snows, you will cheer, have a snowball fight and make a snowman. You will soon be warm and your blood vessels will be unobstructed.