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What traditional food does Wuxi beginning of winter eat? The beginning of Wuxi's winter diet custom.

1. Bacon paella: Eating a bowl of bacon paella in winter is a specific custom of Wuxi people. Cooked with frosted short feet, fat and thin diced bacon and glutinous and sweet new rice, it takes half an hour to bring out attractive aroma and nourish the kidneys.

2. Mutton soup: There are two big days to eat mutton in winter, one is beginning of winter, and the other is the winter solstice. Mutton has the effects of nourishing kidney and liver, keeping out cold and eliminating dampness. So Wuxi people firmly believe that the warmth brought by a bowl of mutton soup is enough to resist the cold of a winter.

3. Radish and old duck soup: As the saying goes, radish and ginseng, old duck and radish can be matched to give full play to their respective advantages. Radish old duck soup tastes mellow and is suitable for a family.

4. jiaozi: jiaozi is similar to the Lantern Festival in the north, but it is bigger and has a structure similar to steamed stuffed bun. The outer skin is made of glutinous rice, and the inside is rich in stuffing, which can be selected according to your own preferences. Tuanzi is a famous snack in the Yangtze River valley. The shape of jiaozi is spherical, which means that they are round, and the warmth of reunion can also resist the cold in early winter.

5. Eat jiaozi: beginning of winter and the winter solstice are relatively big solar terms, especially the winter solstice is as big as a year, and these two solar terms are also the days of family reunion, so when it comes to beginning of winter or the winter solstice, they will also cook jiaozi to eat, and the whole family will get together to eat jiaozi, which also means reunion.