1, eat jiaozi, "beginning of winter acts like a jiaozi bowl, nobody cares about his frozen ears!" In northern China, people in some areas have the custom of beginning of winter eating jiaozi. This is because beginning of winter is at the turn of autumn and winter, and it is "the time to have children", so eating jiaozi at this time means "obeying God's will". In addition, the cold climate in winter affects the endocrine system of the human body, and the human body needs to increase the intake of various nutrients. Jiaozi can meet this requirement in terms of production types, nutrition and taste, so it is naturally popular.

Drinking mutton soup, the cold wind blows hard, and the mutton is fat and delicious. In beginning of winter, many people like to eat mutton. Mutton is warm, which can not only keep out the cold, but also benefit the body. It is most suitable for eating in winter, so it is called winter tonic. Therefore, in some areas, there is a traditional custom of drinking mutton soup in early winter. After all, mutton is nutritious and delicious, and it is most suitable for stew. Besides, in cold weather, drinking a bowl of hot mutton soup is good for your health and can warm your body.

3, eat Ciba, beginning of winter season, rural people will play Ciba on this day. After making Ciba, we often send samples to our neighbors, relatives and friends to see whose food is delicious. Ciba is to put the cooked glutinous rice into a stone mortar, hammer it repeatedly, rub it into a ball, and eat it with bean powder with white sugar, which is very sweet. The purpose of making glutinous rice is to celebrate the harvest year and pray for a better life in the coming year.

4. Brewing yellow rice wine. For Shaoxing people, the special significance of beginning of winter lies in yellow rice wine. From this day on, you can brew yellow rice wine! Winter is the most suitable season for wine fermentation with low temperature and clear water. Therefore, Shaoxing people regard the next year's trip from beginning of winter to beginning of spring as the most suitable time to brew yellow rice wine, which is called "winter brewing" to pray for happiness. Moreover, yellow rice wine can warm the middle and dispel the cold, sweating and relieving exterior syndrome. For people who are prone to colds and cold in winter, yellow wine has a good health-keeping effect.

5. Eating ointment refers to decocting medicinal materials in water, removing residues and concentrating, and adding honey or sugar to make semi-fluid preparation, also known as decoction and ointment. Beginning of winter's eating cream prescription is a traditional way for Suzhou people to take tonic in winter, which has played a positive role in the health of local people. So at this time, local Chinese medicine hospitals and some time-honored pharmacies will open special tonic clinics to torture citizens and sell winter nourishing health products.