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What traditional food does the Great Cold eat?

The traditional foods Dahan eats are glutinous rice flour, eight-treasure porridge, chicken soup, rice cakes and eight-treasure rice. Eight-treasure rice: There is a folk saying that glutinous rice is eaten in cold weather, and the most typical glutinous rice is eight-treasure rice. Beijing people will eat rice cakes in this cold day, which means "high year", good luck and good luck, and peace every year. Chicken soup: Great Cold Around April and September of the lunar calendar, the traditional way of eating "one chicken" is still respected by many families.

Causes of eating eight-treasure rice with a cold

There is a folk saying that glutinous rice is eaten in the cold season, because glutinous rice can nourish the healthy qi of the human body, and after eating it, it will cause fever all over the body and play a role in keeping out the cold and nourishing the stomach. The food made of glutinous rice is the most typical one.

The reason of eating chicken soup with a cold.

Not afraid of cold: whether it is before the weather turns cold or when it is cold, adding clothes at the right time can keep warm, but a bowl of hot chicken soup will instantly warm your body and make you less afraid of cold. Some nourishing soups, such as _ Duck and Shiquan Dabu Soup, are hot and dry, which may be counterproductive for people with hot constitution, while chicken soup is more suitable for warming.

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In this solar term, people are busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, pickling new year's dishes and preparing new year's goods, because the Spring Festival, the most important festival for China people, is coming. As the last solar term at the end of the year, the Great Cold is a slack season, but everyone is "busy"-busy with the New Year, which is the custom of "welcoming the New Year in the Great Cold". The so-called "welcome in the cold" means that during the period from the cold to the Lunar New Year, there will be a series of activities among the people, which can be summarized into at least ten customs, namely, eating glutinous rice, binge drinking, making teeth, sweeping the dust, pasting windows, tasting bacon, catching a wedding, going to the market and bathing.