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According to the custom in beginning of winter, what do you eat?

Folk foods in beginning of winter are: jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, pumpkin pie, mutton and sweet potatoes.

1, creature

Eating jiaozi in early winter is a traditional custom in northern China. Jiaozi is shaped like a gold ingot, symbolizing wealth and good luck. Jiaozi fillings can be selected according to personal taste, such as pork, green onions, leeks, eggs and so on. Beginning of winter's eating jiaozi symbolizes the reunion of China New Year, and also symbolizes the New Year of the Lunar New Year. Eating a bumper harvest in jiaozi is rich in meaning.

2. Tangyuan

Tangyuan is a kind of glutinous rice dumplings with stuffing, which is usually made of sweet stuffing such as black sesame and red bean paste. Tangyuan is round in shape, symbolizing roundness and happiness. The custom of eating glutinous rice balls in early winter is mainly popular in the south.

3. Pumpkin pie

Pumpkin cake is a kind of cake made of pumpkin as the main raw material, which tastes sweet and delicious. In southern China, eating pumpkin pie in early winter has become a popular custom. The production process of pumpkin pie is relatively simple, and the fried pumpkin pie is crisp outside and tender inside, emitting a strong pumpkin flavor.

4. Mutton

In early winter, the weather is getting colder and colder, so eating mutton has become a common custom. Especially in the northwest, the custom of eating mutton is more popular in early winter, and a hot bite of mutton has become the favorite of local people.

5.sweet potato

In early winter, sweet potato tastes delicious, so it has become a custom food in early winter. Sweet potato is not only sweet and delicious, so people often choose to eat sweet potato in early winter to enjoy the delicious taste. Whether it is baked sweet potato, sweet potato porridge or sweet potato soup, it is one of the most popular foods in early winter.