What food is suitable for the slight cold solar terms?

The traditional foods that Han Xiao eats include: glutinous rice, laba porridge, mutton, vegetable rice and soybean sprouts.

1, glutinous rice

Glutinous rice is one of the traditional staple foods in China and plays an important role in the lives of people in southern China. It is a favorite food for men, women and children, and it is also the staple food of various festivals, with glutinous rice as the raw material.

On the Lantern Festival, there are steamed glutinous rice with red dates, colored glutinous rice with flowers, jiaozi, eight-treasure rice and rice cakes, and on the Dragon Boat Festival, there are pillow-shaped and triangular zongzi, Qingming group worship and Qingming Baba. Various flavors of glutinous rice are popular in Guizhou province, and various sweet, salty and sour practices of glutinous rice emerge one after another.

2, Laba porridge

Laba porridge is sweet and soft. In ancient times, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the custom of eating Laba porridge (called "laba rice" in some places) spread among the people in China.

In Henan, Laba porridge, also known as "everyone's meal", is a holiday food custom to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei. "Special Sacrifice to the Suburb" says that the wax sacrifice is "December of a year, gathering all things for food". Laba porridge is a mixture of food from all directions and cooked in a pot with rice, which means bringing together everything and harmonizing thousands of spirits.

3. Mutton

Mutton tonifies deficiency, dispels cold and warms qi and blood. Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton in winter. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of strengthening yang and enriching blood. In fact, in Jiangnan, Suzhou people began to make up in winter, and they ate the famous Wuzhong mutton.

4. Vegetable rice

Vegetable rice is convenient to make and delicious. Vegetable rice is a special food of Han nationality in China. Famous vegetable rice includes Shanghai vegetable rice, Fujian vegetable rice and Taiwan Province vegetable rice. The combination of dishes and staple food is convenient to make and delicious, which is deeply loved by the people.

Vegetable rice is called salty rice in some places and salty broken rice in some places. Some places are also called paella because they use seafood. This cooking method depends on the custom and frugality of the local working people of Han nationality, who rely on mountains for food and water for food.

5. Yellow bean sprouts

Bean sprouts are tender and crisp when cooked. Soybean sprouts, a kind of Chinese cabbage, are rare and valuable new vegetables planted in the northern greenhouse in autumn and harvested in the southern open field in winter.

The famous varieties of soybean sprouts are "Sixty Days", "Chrysanthemum Heart", "Wagaitou", "Big Baotou" and "Small Baotou". They have the same characteristics: white skin core, opposite top leaves, firm core and high yellowing degree. Boiled soup is like milk, which is tender, crisp and delicious when fried, and can be stored well. It is a regular vegetable in winter.