What are the solar terms customs in beginning of winter? What are the solar terms customs in beginning of winter?

1. Eat jiaozi: beginning of winter solar term, which means harvesting in autumn and storing in winter. In the past, China was an agricultural society. People who worked for a year took advantage of beginning of winter to have a rest and rewarded their families for their hard work over the past year. There is a proverb that "beginning of winter fills the winter and the mouth" is the best metaphor. In southern China, people like to eat some chicken, duck and fish in early winter. On this day in early winter in Taiwan Province Province, street restaurants such as "Mutton Stove" and "Ginger Duck" complement winter weddings. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken and siwu chicken to supplement energy.

2. Winter Swimming: Interestingly, the way to celebrate beginning of winter has also been innovative. During their stay in Harbin and beginning of winter, the athletes of Heilongjiang Winter Swimming Association crossed the Songhua River to welcome the arrival of winter in this way.

After beginning of winter, the weather turned cold, how to enhance the ability to resist the cold? Nothing more than increasing heat production and reducing heat dissipation in the body, and its methods are all related to food, clothing, housing and transportation. Adjusting diet and increasing calories is one of the ways. In cold environment, proper consumption of high-calorie food can promote the catabolism of sugar, fat and protein. Winter diet should nourish yin and subdue yang, and high-calorie diet should also eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to avoid vitamin and mineral deficiency. Carbohydrate and fat are nutrients that generate heat energy. Carbohydrates in food mainly come from cereals and potatoes, and cereals cannot be reduced. Adults need 400-500 grams a day.

4. Heating in winter: Eat less cold food, but don't rush to heat it. It is advisable to eat some high-calorie foods, such as nourishing yin and suppressing yang, eating more fresh vegetables, avoiding vitamin deficiency, such as beef and mutton, black-bone chicken and crucian carp, and drinking more soybean milk, milk, radish, vegetables, tofu and fungus.