Little cold solar terms, old Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice, and its source is estimated to be related to the cold weather. The so-called vegetable rice is to stir-fry vegetables and rice together, and add bacon, sausage, ham and diced salted duck. Among them, short-legged yellow duck and dried salted duck are famous specialties in Nanjing, which have great characteristics in Nanjing.

In the past, these seemingly ordinary things were only enjoyed by people with rich family conditions. People with poor economic conditions were reluctant to add meat, so they buried a spoonful of lard in the vegetable rice. At that time, there was not much oil and water in the food at ordinary times, so "lard bibimbap" tasted particularly fragrant.

2, Laba porridge

One of the important folk customs in the slight cold solar terms is to eat "Laba porridge". Before and after the slight cold solar terms, eating such rich hot porridge at this time can not only stimulate appetite, but also increase the body's heat, thus warming the stomach and eliminating cold.

It is recorded in Yanjing Year's Chronicle that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste, etc., and dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes for external use. All the above foods are sweet and warm, and have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Friends can choose the ingredients of Laba porridge according to their eating habits and physical condition, and the Laba porridge cooked will be more suitable for their physique.

3. Mutton

The "slight cold" is the coldest time of the year, and people are easily attacked by the cold. The quickest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton-padded coat, but a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm food. If you cook it with some Chinese angelica, yam and carrot, and season it with green onions and ginger, it is recommended to eat it once a week, which will not get angry, but also make it a warm winter.

Angelica and ginger mutton soup with "Angelica and ginger" as the main raw material has the functions of warming the middle warmer, enriching blood, dispelling cold and strengthening the body, which is very suitable for white-collar workers with chronic fatigue and serious sub-health state; And people with severe soreness of waist and knees, fear of cold and fear of cold, are suitable for tonic "sheep kidney and red ginseng porridge", which has the function of benefiting qi and strengthening yang.

4. Chicken soup

Old Nanjing also has the tonic habit of eating a chicken and an egg every September, so chicken soup and eggs are indispensable on the table of citizens on this day of slight cold. It is said that most of the nutrients in chicken bone and chicken will be dissolved in the soup when it is slowly boiled with slow fire, which is easily absorbed by the human body. It is a good tonic for invigorating qi and enriching blood in winter and contains a lot of calcium.

Hen stew, with some health care materials will be better. Put whatever you have at home, such as red dates, lotus seeds, medlar, longan, etc., and it can also be paired with mushrooms, yam, cordyceps, or scallops and dried seaweed. The taste is delicious and peaceful. Slowly simmer for 2-3 hours, then skim off the fat on it. It is good to eat and drink chicken directly, make hot pot soup base, or cook noodles with chicken soup in the morning.

5. Glutinous rice

Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiaohan eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped scallions and mix them in the rice.

Glutinous rice means warmth, which is warm from the beginning to the end of the year. Because glutinous rice has higher sugar content than rice, it feels warm all over the body after eating, which is conducive to driving out the cold. Theoretically speaking, glutinous rice has the effect of tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting qi, and it is most suitable to eat glutinous rice in cold season.