What to eat in the 24 seasons Be a cultured eater

The characteristic dietary traditions of the 24 solar terms:

Richun

Biting the spring refers to the custom of eating spring plates, spring cakes, spring rolls, and chewing radish on the day of spring, and the word "biting" explains the many food customs of the season.

Rain

One otter sacrificed fish, or else eat fish good la ...... custom inside also have to return to the mother's home to bring the canned meat ......

China's ancient will be divided into three rain: "a wait for the otter sacrifices fish; the second wait for the Hongyan goose; the third wait for the grass and trees to sprout persuasion." This festival, the otter began to fish, the fish will be placed on the shore as the first sacrifice after the food; five days later, the geese began to fly back to the north from the south; another five days, in the "silent" spring rain, the grass and trees with the upward movement of yang qi in the ground and began to pull out the shoots.

Another major custom of the Rainy Day is for the son-in-law to send a gift to his father-in-law and mother-in-law. The gift for the festival is usually two rattan chairs wrapped with a two-foot-long red belt, which is called "receiving life," meaning wishing the father-in-law and mother-in-law a long life. Another typical gift to send the festival is the "pot of meat": stewed pig's feet and snowy mountain soybeans in a casserole, kelp, and then red paper, red rope sealed the mouth of the pot, to the in-laws to send. This is the hard work of the daughter will raise adults in-laws to express gratitude and respect. If the newlywed son-in-law to send the festival, the father-in-law and mother-in-law will also give back the umbrella, so that the son-in-law to go out and run around, can protect the wind and rain, but also wish the son-in-law life journey smooth and safe meaning.

This festival should eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, light diet to supplement the body's moisture, spinach, leeks, etc. are good vegetables, less greasy food. Dietary therapy is mostly congee is good, can be made into lotus seed congee, yam congee, jujube congee and so on. This season, should eat less mutton, dog meat and other warm products.

Hibernation

Folk have been eating pears in hibernation customs

In ethnic minority areas, Guangxi Jinxiu County, Yao in the hibernation of the day of the family to eat "fried worm", "worm" fried, placed in the hall, the family After the worms are fried, they are placed in the hall, and the whole family sits around and eats them, shouting, "Eat fried worms, eat fried worms! The fun place but also competition, who ate faster, chewing more loudly, we will come to congratulate him for the elimination of pests to make a merit. In fact, "worm" is corn, is to take its symbolism.

Some areas of Shandong, farmers in the hibernation day in the courtyard to build a fireplace pancakes, meant to smoke and fire whole dead pests. In Shaanxi, some areas over the hibernation to eat fried beans. People will soak soybeans in salt water and then put in a pot of fried, crackling sound, symbolizing the bugs in the pot of hot frying when the sound of jumping. In the Yanbei region of Shanxi province, farmers eat pears on the day of hibernation, meaning to part with pests.

--It seems that food customs are really tightly integrated with the meaning of the festival

Spring Equinox

Since you have to put up an egg, you can have one too!

The Xie family of Kaiping Cangcheng Town, which used to be a town in the Four Hups (plus Heshan as the Five Hups), had a custom that was not part of the festival, which was called "eating spring vegetables on the vernal equinox". "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, everyone in the village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the field, most of them are young and green, thin, about as long as the palm of your hand. The picked spring vegetables are usually "rolled in soup" with sliced fish at home, called "spring soup". There is a jingle: "spring soup to fill the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy." Since the spring of the year, people are still praying for peace and quiet at home, strong and healthy.

The day of the equinox farmers are in accordance with customary vacation, each family to eat soup yuan, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the soup yuan more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, the name of the sticky finch beak, lest the finch to destroy the crops.

Ching Ming

(As a big festival of ancestor worship, there are a lot of things designated for consumption!)

The custom of eating green dumplings is practiced in the southern part of the Yangtze River. The green dumplings are made from the juice of a wild plant called "Maitake", which is pounded and squeezed out, and then the dumplings are made by mixing the juice with dried, water-ground glutinous rice flour. The filling of the dumplings is made of fine sweetened bean paste, and a small piece of sweetened lard is added to the filling. After the dumplings are made, they are steamed in a cage and when they are taken out of the cage, the cooked vegetable oil is brushed evenly over the surface of the dumplings, which is the end of the process. The green dumplings are as green as jade, glutinous and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy to eat, fat but not fat.

Artemisia cake is similar to Jiangnan's green dumplings, the system is: "take the young shoots of new artemisia and glutinous rice with pounding, so that artemisia juice and rice flour melted into one, meat, vegetables, bean paste, date paste, etc., as a filling, in a variety of styles of wooden molds, with a new reed leaves into the bottom of the cage to be steamed." Artemisia cake is green in color and fragrant with plants, it is one of the foods for ancestor worship at Qingming, and is also used as a gift or hospitality for friends and relatives. In addition, there is also the custom of eating tea eggs in Huaiyang during Qingming.

(Qingming to eat green food, Jiangnan's is sweet, Lingnan side is also eaten savory. But the sweet ones are really delicious too!

China's northern and southern parts of the Qingming Festival have eaten deep-fried noodle cake food custom. "Deep-fried noodle cake is a deep-fried food, which is crispy and exquisite, and was called "cold utensils" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food on the cold food festival is no longer popular in most parts of China, but deep-fried noodle cakes related to this festival are y loved by the world. Nowadays, the deep-fried noodle cakes popular in Han areas have differences between the north and the south: the northern deep-fried cakes are generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; the southern deep-fried cakes are delicate and detailed, with rice flour as the main material. In the minority areas, there are many varieties of deep-fried noodle cakes with different flavors, especially the deep-fried cakes of Uygur, Dongxiang and Naxi, and the deep-fried cakes of Ningxia Hui are the most famous.

The best time to eat snail is during the Qingming season, because the snail has not yet reproduced at this time, and it is the most plump and fat, so there is a saying that "the snail in the Qingming season can be eaten by a goose". Snail eating method is quite a lot, can be fried with onion, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar; can also be boiled and picked out of the snail meat, can be mixed, can be drunk, can be bad, can be choked, all appropriate. If the food method is appropriate, it can be called "a flavor of snail a thousand interesting, delicious wine are not as good as".

In addition, China's north and south of the festival in the Qingming Festival, there are food eggs, cakes, cakes, sandwich cakes, Qingming dumplings, buns, mochi, Qingming Po, dry porridge and other nutritious food custom.

Guyu

Southern Guyu tea picking custom, legend has it that Guyu tea will clear the fire, evil spirits, eyesight and so on. So no matter what the weather is, people will go to the tea mountain to pick some new tea to drink.

Northern rain food toon custom, before and after the rain is the toon listed season, when the toon mellow and refreshing high nutritional value, there is a "rain before the toon tender as silk," said. Toon has to improve immunity, stomach, gas, diarrhea, emollient, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, insecticidal effect.

Annually on April 20, it is a fishermen's festival in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. The festival originated from the Grain Rain Festival. In China's northern coastal areas of fishermen, over the Guyu Festival has been more than two thousand years of history, to the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years (1821) renamed Fishermen's Festival. Because the day of the rain, the fishermen along the coast of Shandong to pray for the blessing of the god of the sea, safe at sea, a good harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today's affluent Rongcheng fishermen, on the day of the rain, held a grand "sea sacrifice" activities to the Goddess of the sea toast, and then set sail to the sea fishing

Well, spring, eat here~

Summer has begun

The first festival on the first a lot to eat ~ remember that egg~<

Summer

Shengzhou people eat eggs on the day of summer on the heart, eat bamboo shoots on the legs, eat peas on the eyes, weighing people on the body, (crutch for the support of the meaning), the purpose is to pray for the body, the heart, the legs and other important parts of the body, heart, and other important parts of the health of the body, to prevent disease, and successfully pass the hot summer wishes.

Old times, the countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white polished round-grained rice cooked into the "five-color rice", after the evolution of the Japanese soybean meat boiled glutinous rice, vegetables with amaranth yellow fish soup, said to eat "summer rice. Eggs were boiled in black tea or walnut shells, called "Tachibana eggs," and given to each other. With colorful thread woven egg set, hanging in front of the child's chest, or hanging on the tent. Children to crutches summer egg play, to the egg shell firm but not broken for the win.

Ningbo custom to eat "foot bone bamboo shoots", cooked with bamboo shoots, each three or four inches long, not cut open, eat to pick two of the same thickness of the bamboo shoots to eat a mouthful, said to eat can "foot bone health" (physical health). And then eat soft vegetables (Junta vegetables), said after eating summer will not have prickly heat, skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables.

Hunan Changsha people eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup balls, the name of the "summer soup", folk proverb "ate the summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer eat a group (sound for)" Tuo ". "Tuo"), a foot across the river," a metaphor for great strength, light as a swallow; farmers in suburban counties of Shanghai on the day of summer with wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strips of food, known as "wheatworms," people ate, said that can be avoided! "Resistance and Resistance"; Tongshan County, Hubei Province, folk summer as an important festival, Tongshan people eat bubble (strawberries), shrimp, bamboo shoots, called "eat bubble bright eyes, eat shrimp strength, eat bamboo shoots strong foot bones"; southern Fujian region, eat shrimp noodles in the summer, that is, to buy prawns mixed with the Noodles in the cooking, shrimp cooked red, for the color of good luck, and shrimp and summer resonance, as a wish for the summer.

Fujian Min Dong area in the summer to eat "light cake" (flour baked with a little salt) based. Eastern Fujian Zhouning, Fu'an and other places will be light cake into the water soaked dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places will be light cake cut in half, will be fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, bad vegetables and other folder and eat it. Zhouning County, pure pool town some villages to eat "summer paste", there are two main categories, one is rice paste, one is groundnut flour paste. Big pot boiling soup, soup content is extremely rich, there are meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu, and so on, neighbors invited each other to drink paste soup. This is a little similar to the East Zhejiang rural summer to eat "seven porridge" custom. "Seven family porridge" and "seven family tea" is also considered another form of summer tasting, seven family porridge is a collection of the left and right neighboring houses of each family's rice, coupled with a variety of beans and brown sugar, boiled into a large pot of porridge, by everyone to share food. Seven family tea is each family brought their own freshly roasted tea leaves, mixed and cooked or brewed into a large pot of tea, and then gathered by everyone **** drink. These porridge or tea is not necessarily how delicious food, but these ceremonies, but can be said to be the past important rural social fellowship activities. East Zhejiang rural summer has eaten "seven family porridge" custom, that is, farming families left collar right house each other beans, rice, and yellow sugar, cooked into a pot of porridge, called "seven family porridge", said to eat this porridge, neighborly harmony, a heart to go to the summer ploughing and summer planting.

Shanghai summer customs, because this is the peak season of egg food, so the summer always eat eggs, children's neck always hang a red net set of eggs. Shanghai also has a "festival cross the summer to remember the points, eat the stall vegetables to try the treasure called." The custom (see above), the day of summer to eat taro and cauliflower synthesized pancakes, at noon, both men and women, young and old to weigh.

Small full

As the official phases into the summer season, this time the old Chinese medicine recommended to eat bitter bitter vegetable diet ...... probably ......

Cherry red mulberry black, this time of the year is also the seasonal fruits began to be marketed It

Wikipedia also inexplicably appeared: Xiao Man Festival Taiwan Changhua near the sea can be caught black pomfret, northeastern Su'ao and southern waters can be caught flying fish. Bananas in Qishan and Meinong in Kaohsiung County are already in full bloom. Taiwan is famous as a banana producer, and many bananas are exported to all over the world every year.

It means you can eat bananas and fish

Mangzao (芒种)

, a busy season for farming, has a proverb that says apricots are yellow, so you can probably eat them too

Boiling Plums

In the south, plums are ripe in May and June every year, and the Three Kingdoms have an allusion to the saying, "Boiling Plums to Wine and Discussing Heroes". Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, with blood purification, intestinal, lowering blood lipids, eliminating fatigue, beauty, regulating the acid-base balance, enhance the body's immunity and other unique nutritional and health functions. However, most of the fresh plums taste sour, difficult to enter directly, need to be processed before eating, this process is the cooking plums.

An Miao

Manchu playing mud battle custom An Miao Department of the South Anhui agricultural custom activities, began in the early Ming Dynasty. At the time of mango planting, after planting rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in the fall, all over the Anmiao ritual activities. Families with new wheat flour evaporation package, knead the surface into the shape of grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed with vegetable juice, as a sacrificial offering, praying for a bumper crop, the villagers peace.

Sending the God of Flowers

The God of Flowers is welcomed at the Flower Pilgrimage Festival on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. Mango is nearly May, the flowers began to wither and fall, the folk more in the Mango day held a ceremony to worship the God of Flowers, preserved to send the God of Flowers return to the position, while expressing gratitude to the God of Flowers, looking forward to the next year to meet again. This custom no longer exists today, but the famous novelist Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions mentions it.

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice is the day when cold noodles are commonly eaten throughout Shandong, commonly known as water noodles, and there is a proverb that says, "Winter Solstice Dumplings and Summer Solstice Noodles". Yantai Laiyang area on the summer solstice recommend new wheat, Huang County (now Yantai Longkou City) around the new wheat grains to eat, children with wheat straw braided a delicate little strainer, in the soup one at a time to the mouth to fish, both ate wheat grains, but also a game, very much the interest of farm life.

Summer solstice wontons and winter solstice doughnuts, four seasons of well-being and reunion

Summer solstice to eat a Li, a year without harm

Small summer

There's a proverb that says: "Eat a mango on the summer day". What kind of proverb is this? The so-called "eat mango in the summer" means that this is the time of year when mangoes are ripe and in full bloom. The lotus fields in Baihe Township, Tainan County, are rich in lotus pods and seeds, and Baihe Township, which is known as the home of the lotus flower, organizes the Lotus Festival every year.

The summer heat and the summer heat, there is rice lazy cooking. This is a typical Guangzhou dialect accent, think of this festival is also to drink green bean soup ~

Three volts of the algorithm is related to the summer solstice, but the small summer is exactly before and after the beginning of the volts, "the first volts of dumplings two volts of noodles, three volts of pancakes and eggs," this way of eating, the north is more common, right?

The other eating lotus said that the honey lotus folk summer eating lotus custom, lotus contains a lot of carbohydrates and rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of vitamins, and dietary fiber, with the effect of clearing heat and blood in addition to the annoyance, suitable for summer consumption. Fresh lotus root simmered in a small fire rotten, sliced and add the right amount of honey, can be eaten at will.

The summer

There is a traditional way of supplementing folklore, which is to eat a child chicken in the summer. The child chicken, refers to the growth of just mature but not breeding a small cock; or feeding period in three months weighing one catty to one and a half kilograms, has not been breeding a small cock, and later there are special varieties called child chicken. Children's chicken body contains a certain amount of growth hormone, in the growth and development of children as well as hormone levels decline in middle-aged and elderly people have a very good complementary effect.

There is also a folk saying that the old duck is better than the tonic in the summer. Duck stew can be added to the lotus root, winter melon and other vegetables in soup to eat, can make up for the deficiency, summer nourishing Yang. Add with Gorgon fruit, Job's tears with soup, nourishing the effect of yang is better, can strengthen the spleen and dampness, enhance appetite.

Taizhou Jiaojiang people also ate the summer festival ginger egg custom, ginger can remove moisture in the body, ginger egg "filler", there are also older people like to eat chicken porridge, said to make up for the sun.

On the day of the summer festival, Putian people have eaten lychee, mutton and rice bad customs, called "over the summer".

Litchi Litchi is a Putian specialty, such as Song Jiaxiang, Scholar's Red, and "Eighteen Maidens Red" are excellent varieties, which have been famous in ancient and modern times. In the summer before and after the festival, lychee is full of trees flow Dan, fragrant ten miles of ripe time. Lychee contains a lot of glucose and a variety of vitamins, has a certain nutritional value, so eat fresh lychee can nourish the body. Yi people Song Biyu's "litchi recipes" in: "picking lychee to contain dew picking, and immersed in cold springs, when eating the best in white porcelain pots, red and white, better set off the lychee color of the delicate; evening, the bath strike, the crescent moon, is the best time to eat lychee." Because of this, the old tradition: the day of the summer festival, the first fresh lychee immersed in cold well water, the summer festival time to take it out, carefully savored. This time to eat lychee, the most pleasant, the most nourishing. Thus, some people say that eating lychee in the summer, its nutritional value is as high as eating ginseng.

Mutton Warm soup mutton is Putian unique flavor snacks and one of the senior dishes. After slaughtering the sheep, remove the wool and dirt, put the whole sheep into a pot of boiling soup, put it into a big pottery jar, and then inject the boiling soup into the pot, and take it out of the market after soaking for a certain period of time. Eat, cut the mutton into slices, meat fat and crispy, fresh and tasty. Mutton is warm and tonic in nature, and is suitable for food and medicinal use (with medicines). On the morning of the summer festival, mutton is put on the market and demand exceeds supply.

Mi Cao Mix rice and white rice qu to let it ferment, through the ripe into the lees; to the day of the summer, it into a piece, add some brown sugar to cook. It is said that it can "replenish the vital energy".

(According to medical doctors: the summer festival is in the rainy season soon after the month, this time the weather is hot, but the main summer yin, the human body is easy to heat, dampness, evil invasion, and even disease. Eat these foods, can enhance the body's ability to fight disease, in order to drive away the summer, wet. ← this ...... slightly thunder, will count the people think the plum rain over a long time it ...... the end of July the soul fade! In my experience this point of lychee is also almost out of season, almost on the longan

Da summer festival in Taiwan around the sea is mostly covered with warm-water fish schools, the northeastern waters of the squid, the sea off Keelung has a small volume, Chizong, and the waters of the Changhua yellowfin snapper, and so on. A Taiwanese proverb says: "Eat pineapple in the summer", which means that pineapples are the most delicious at this time of the year. In addition, June 15 is the "Half-Year Festival". Since June 15 of the lunar calendar is the halfway point of the year, the whole family eats "Half-Year Round" after worshipping the gods on this day. Half-Year Round is made of glutinous rice ground into powder and then rolled with red flour, and is mostly boiled as a sweet to be tasted. The symbolism is reunion and sweetness.

Summer is over as we eat and eat

Autumn is here.

But that doesn't mean it's going to be cooler~

Because there's more! Autumn! Old! Tiger!

Autumn

The Autumn Festival, also known as the July Festival. There is a custom of cutting petals out of red heather leaves and pinning them to the temples, as well as a custom of swallowing seven grains of small adzuki beans with autumn water (see Lin'an Youshi ji (Records of the Years and Times of Lin'an)).

In the countryside, during the day or night of the first day of autumn, it was customary to foretell how hot or cold the weather would be. There is also the custom of tasting the new year with watermelons and beans and laying the foundation for the ancestors. On the day before the first day of Autumn, it is customary to cook watermelon, steam eggplant and drink Elsholtzia.

It is popular to weigh people on hanging scales on the day of Autumn, comparing their weight with that of summer. Because people to the summer, there is no appetite, meals are light and simple, two or three months down, most of the weight to lose a little. Autumn wind together, appetite, want to eat some good, increase a little nutrition, to compensate for the loss of summer, make up for the way is "stick autumn fat": in the autumn this day a variety of meat, stewed meat roasted meat braised meat, etc., "to meat fat".

"Gnawing on autumn" is also known as "biting the autumn" in some places. Tianjin, the day to eat watermelon or melon, said "bite autumn", implying that the summer heat is difficult to endure, when the autumn, will be bitten. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelon on the day of autumn to "bite the autumn", it is said that can not be born in the fall prickly heat. In zhejiang and other places, autumn day to take watermelon and shochu with food, folk think can prevent malaria. [2] city people buy a watermelon home on the day of autumn, the whole family around the nibble, is to nibble autumn. And farmers nibble autumn is much more bold. They are in the shed, in the shade, groups of three to five, sitting on the ground, holding the red flesh watermelon nibble, holding the green flesh melon nibble, holding the white yam nibble, holding the golden corn on the cob nibble. The autumn nibbles, in fact, is a kind of harvest joy.

Summer

It's another busy season, with new rice on the table, pears and chestnuts ripe, and all kinds of fruits and vegetables ripening in abundance.

For the coastal fishermen, the summer after the fishery harvest season, every year during the summer; in Zhejiang Province, the coast will hold an annual grand opening of the fishing festival, decided in the East China Sea fishing moratorium on the end of the day, held a grand opening ceremony to send the fishermen to open the boat to the sea. 2006, the Ninth China Open Fishing Festival, held on September 6, Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province. Because; at this time the water temperature of the sea is still high, the fish still stay around the sea and the fish and shrimp and shellfish develop and mature. Therefore, people can often enjoy a great variety of seafood from this time.

The old duck has a sweet taste and cool nature, so there is a folk tradition of eating duck at the end of the summer, and there are various ways to do it, such as white cut duck, lemon duck, duck with zi ginger, roast duck, duck with lotus leaf, and duck with walnuts. Beijing still retains this tradition, usually on the day of the summer, Beijing people will go to the store to buy the summer lily duck and so on.

White Dew

When it comes to the White Dew festival, the feeling of autumn is getting stronger. In the old days, Nanjing people attached great importance to the "coming" and "going" of the festival, and gradually formed a custom of the festival with local characteristics in Nanjing.

When it comes to white dew, love tea old Nanjing are very favored "white dew tea", this time the tea tree after the summer heat, before and after the white dew is the perfect time for it to grow. White Dew tea is not as fresh as spring tea, not soaked, not like summer tea as dry astringent taste bitter, but has a unique sweet fragrance, especially by the old tea drinkers love. Furthermore, the home storage of spring tea has been basic "consumption" almost, at this time the white dew tea is connected to, so to the white dew around, some tea drinkers will be entrusted to buy some white dew tea.

Zixing Xingning, Sandu, Tate River area has always had the custom of brewing. Every year, when the White Dew Festival comes, the family brewing, hospitality must drink "soil wine". The wine is warm and slightly sweet, and is called "Bai Lu Rice Wine".

Autumn Equinox

Fish bait can't be reduced, and lotus roots are harvested and pushed to market.

Although we have lotus root here all year round, it is really better to have it at this time of the year until winter, right?

The crabs are almost ready. But it should still be a tiny bit short.

There's nothing festive about it! (Because it's a busy farming season, I guess.) So there's no designated festival food ......

Cold Dew

With the second half of fall slipping by, saving up for the big Mid-Autumn and Chung Yeung festivals, the festivities don't particularly matter.

The days are getting colder and colder at the time of the cold dew, and the farmers are idle every day.

Wheat sowing is still in full swing, and the late rice harvest is still in full swing.

Leaving the groundnuts in the ground for fear of freezing, and harvesting the soybeans in the open air.

Yellow tobacco and peanuts should also be harvested, sunny weather busy picking cotton.

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The greenhouse cucumber grafting, insulation and moisturizing is the key.

Purple red hawthorn is picked, fresh red pomegranate is sour and sweet.

After unloading the fruits, I will control the trees and turn over the land with fertilizer and spraying.

It's a good time to collect tree seeds, and the native seed source is the key.

Livestock and poultry feeding techniques, pregnant females carefully managed.

Wintering fish species must be fertilized, catching adult fish to pick lotus root gravy.

But look at the above slightly stupid song, soybean peanuts, hawthorn pomegranate can be the seasonal good ~

Frost

Fall

Autumn last season. There's a proverb that says, "It's better to make up for a year's worth of frost than to make up for a year's worth of frost," which sounds like you could eat a lot of food.

Ancient people generally eat both lamb and rabbit in the fall. Some places to eat red persimmons, that can protect against the cold, can make up the muscles and bones. And Quanzhou old people's saying is: frost eating ding tomatoes, will not runny nose. In some places, it is said that you have to eat persimmons on this day of frost, otherwise your lips will be cracked all winter long. In other places, you must eat some beef on this day. Shandong farmers proverb: summer sorghum, white dew valley, frost to the carrot pulling.

Additionally, there are a lot of proverbs about persimmons:

Pick persimmons at the end of the frost, and play soft jujubes at the beginning of winter.

If you don't pick persimmons at the end of the day, you'll be left with hard persimmons and soft persimmons.

After the busy harvest season, it was the last and coldest winter of the year.

What's the entertainment outside the cold, of course, is to eat eat eat eat!

Lidong

In the past, we were a farming society, and after a year of labor, we took advantage ofidong to take a break and reward the family for their hard work. The best analogy for this is the proverb, "The winter is the time to make up for the winter, and to make up for the empty mouth".

In terms of food customs, there is a custom of eating Japanese dumplings on the first day of winter. In winter, it is rare to buy bonobos in the market. This kind of bonobo is bought in the summer and kept in the hut or on the windowsill, and after a long time of saccharification, it is made into dumpling stuffing, which tastes different from cabbage and the bonobo stuffing in the summer, and is also dipped in vinegar and eaten with rotten garlic, so as to make the dumplings have a unique flavor.

(There it is, the first wave of heartless dumpling eating!

In the south of China, people love to eat some chicken, duck, fish and meat in winter. In Taiwan, on the day of winter, the streets of the 'mutton stove', 'ginger duck' and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families also stew sesame oil chicken and four-item chicken to replenish energy.

Little Snow

In some parts of the south, there is also the custom of eating mochi in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, mochi was a traditional festival offering in the south, first used by farmers to sacrifice to the bull god. A common saying, "October morning, mochi LuLu burns," refers to the sacrificial event.

Bacon, not now eat ah, is the beginning of the do-it-yourself la, folk have: "winter wax wind pickle, storage to winter" custom. After the snow, the temperature dropped sharply, the weather became dry, is a good time to process bacon. After the snowy season, some farmers began to do sausage, bacon, wait until the Spring Festival just to enjoy the food.

Additionally, in the absence of greenhouse vegetables, cabbage should start to store up, as the saying goes, "Shoveling cabbage in light snow, shoveling spinach in heavy snow".

Da snow

Winter solstice

This is a festival to eat to the belly round.

Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, dumplings are an essential festive meal for rich and poor alike. Proverb: "October 1, the winter solstice to, families eat dumplings."

Old Beijing used to have the saying "winter solstice wontons and summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the north often harassed the border, and the people had no peace. At that time, there were two leaders of the Hun tribe, the Huns and the Tuns, who were very cruel. The people hated them so much that they wrapped them into horns with meat and took the sound of "Hun" and "Tun" and called them "Hundun". Hate to eat, and seek to quell the war, can live in peace. Because the first made wontons is in the winter solstice this day, in the winter solstice this day every family to eat wontons.

In the water towns of Jiangnan, there is a winter solstice night the whole family gathered together *** to eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. According to legend, *** Gong's have not talented son, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, after death into an epidemic ghost, continue to brutalize the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red beans and rice on the day of the winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghosts, disaster prevention and elimination of disease.

In our country Taiwan also preserved the winter solstice with nine layers of cake ancestor tradition, with glutinous rice flour pinched into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other symbols of good luck in the meaning of good fortune and fortune

life of the animals, and then steamed with a steamer into the layers to sacrifice to the ancestors to show that we do not forget the old ancestors. The same family name with the clan on the winter solstice or around the agreed early, set to the ancestral ancestral shrine in accordance with the order of the eldest and youngest ancestor worship, commonly known as "ancestor worship". After the ceremony, a banquet is held to entertain the ancestors. Everyone enjoys a drink and contacts each other, which is called "Ancestor Eating." Ancestors have been passed down from generation to generation in Taiwan as a sign of not forgetting one's "roots". Radish, bok choy, tofu, fungus, and so on.

The Gusu region attaches great importance to the winter solstice festival, and there is a saying in the Gusu region that says, "The winter solstice is like a big year". Traditionally, people in Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, which is a kind of rice wine brewed with the addition of osmanthus flowers and has a pleasant aroma. The people of Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice with various kinds of marinated vegetables such as marinated beef and marinated mutton. In the cold winter, winter wine not only drives away the cold, but also sends out a kind of good prayer to the people of Gusu for a better life.

Macchi, a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, is also a traditional snack of the Fujian people and an offering during their rituals. Mochi is suitable for steaming, pan-frying, fire-roasting and stir-frying after drying in the shade. Mochi is also a famous snack in southern Fujian, which is most famous in Yingdu, Nan'an. The raw materials are good glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut kernel, rock sugar and so on. Mochi is sweet and savory, hunger-resistant after eating, with a sweet, smooth taste, and soft, tough, slightly icy. The finished product is bright white in color, smooth and transparent.

Guangzhou also attaches great importance to the winter solstice, according to the specifications of the Spring Festival ancestor eat a meal ~

Small cold

Nanjing: eat vegetables and rice

Anciently, the Nanjing people of the small cold is quite important, but with the change of time, has faded away, and now people can only be from the life of the traces of a little bit of searching out.

To the small cold, the old Nanjing will generally cook vegetables and rice to eat, the content of the vegetables and rice is not the same, there is a short-footed yellow cabbage and salted meat, sausage slices or board duck ding, and then chopped on some ginger grains and glutinous rice to cook together, very fresh and tasty. One of the short feet yellow, sausage, duck are Nanjing's famous specialty, can be said to be the real "Nanjing dishes rice", and even comparable to the congee.

Guangdong: eat glutinous rice

Guangzhou tradition, small cold morning to eat glutinous rice, in order to avoid too glutinous, generally 60% glutinous rice 40% rice, the bacon and preserved sausage chopped, fried, fried peanuts, add some broken onion white, mixed inside the rice to eat.

Dahan

According to the customs of China, especially in the countryside, every Dahan Festival, people will begin to busy in the old and new, pickled food, and prepare for the New Year's goods. There are many important folk customs and festivals during the period from Dahan to Lichun. For example, the tailing festival, Zaosai and New Year's Eve, sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, is in the middle of this festival. The Dahan festival is a cheerful and relaxing one filled with joy and fun. Tail Teeth originated from the custom of worshiping the God of the Earth to make "teeth". The so-called February 2 for the first tooth, after every second and sixteen to do "tooth" to the lunar calendar December 16 is exactly the tail tooth. Tail tooth with the same February 2, spring cake (the South called Run cake) to eat, this day buyers and sellers to set up a banquet, white chicken for the banquet on an indispensable dish. It is said that whoever the head of the chicken is facing means who the boss will fire the next year. Therefore, some bosses usually put the chicken's head toward themselves so that their employees can enjoy the delicacies with peace of mind and go home to have a peaceful year.

Guangdong Foshan folk have big cold festival tile pot steaming glutinous rice custom, glutinous rice taste sweet, warm, eat with cold nourishing effect. Anqing, Anhui Province, the practice of deep-fried spring rolls.