What traditional food to eat during the Dahan Festival Dahan Festival of traditional food

1, rice cake: eat "cold cake" custom in Beijing has a long history. "Cold cake" is a kind of rice cake, not only because of its glutinous rice than rice sugar content is high, after eating the whole body feel warm, have warm dispersal of wind and cold, moistening the lungs and spleen and stomach effect, and the people choose to eat rice cake on the day of the "Dahan", there are Moreover, the people choose to eat rice cakes on the day of "Dahan", which also has the meaning of "year-high", carrying the good luck of good luck, peace and prosperity. Therefore, the old Beijing custom of eating rice cakes as a family on the day of the Great Cold, not only with an auspicious flavor, but also to dispel the coldness of the body, so it is known as "elimination of cold cakes".

2, glutinous rice: the old saying goes: "small cold, big cold no wind from the cold". Cold, cold morning to eat glutinous rice to drive away the cold is a traditional custom. Folk believe that glutinous rice is higher than the sugar content of rice, after eating the whole body feel warm, conducive to cold. According to Chinese medicine theory, glutinous rice has the effect of nourishing the middle and benefiting the qi, and it is most suitable to eat glutinous rice in the cold season. In addition, glutinous rice means warmth, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year "warm hats", but also has an auspicious meaning.

3, eight treasures of rice: folk have a cold season to eat glutinous rice, because glutinous rice can nourish the human body gas, eaten after the body will be warm, play a cold, stomach, nourishing role. The most typical food made of glutinous rice is eight treasures rice. Glutinous rice is steamed, mixed with sugar, lard, cinnamon, poured into the apparatus containing red dates, barley, lotus seeds, cinnamon meat and other fruit ingredients, steamed and then poured with sugar marinade to become. Sweet flavor, is a holiday and hospitality good.

4, chicken soup; to the cold season, Nanjing people's daily diet more stews and soups. The big cold has been around the fourth nine of the lunar calendar, the traditional one-nine a chicken food custom is still respected by many people's families, Nanjing people choose more than one hen, or single stew, or add ginseng, wolfberries, black fungus and other stew, winter chicken soup is really a pleasure.