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What kind of food is good to eat during the snowy season?

1, winter drinking chicken soup. Winter custom is to drink chicken soup in the south and eat dumplings in the north. Winter tonic, drink chicken soup is the best way. According to folklore, drink chicken soup on the winter solstice, you can make up for a year. Northern winter season to eat dumplings, dumplings are derived from the "cross the son of the time" that winter is the intersection of the fall and winter seasons, so "cross" the son of the time of the dumplings can not be eaten.

2, Snow eat mochi. Patty cake is a traditional food in the South, Snow Festival. This day, in some parts of the South has the custom of eating patties, patties are steamed and pounded with glutinous rice made of a food, shape varies, some places patties are round, symbolizing a good harvest, celebration and reunion.

3, snow cured meat. As the saying goes, "before the New Year, the first fat roof". That is to say that during the snowy season, people began to cured meat, many houses in front of the door, windowsill will be hung. Cured meat, sausage, salted fish and other pickled, dishes, forming a very bright landscape. But this meat is to wait until the New Year in eating. The snowy season can eat the food are, eat caramel, drink sweet potato porridge, eat radish round and so on.

4, winter solstice to eat dumplings & soup dumplings. Winter solstice is a big festival, there is a "winter solstice is as big as the year" said. So this - day's custom and New Year's Eve is almost the same, the north to eat dumplings, the south to eat dumplings. "If you don't serve dumplings on the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care. In the north, eating dumplings on this day is a must. In the south, we eat soup dumplings on the winter solstice, also known as "winter solstice dumplings". The "Winter Solstice Dumpling" can be used to worship ancestors, but also can be used to give each other friends and relatives.