1, meat supplement. The main traditional custom in beginning of winter is winter tonic. Jiaxing people usually like to eat pig's trotters, beef and mutton, chickens and ducks, soft-shelled turtles and other foods as tonics, while nourishing drugs include Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Colla Corii Asini, and Colla Cornus Cervi.

2. Drink soup to replenish qi. On this day in early winter every year, old Jiaxing people still use red dates, longan and walnut kernels to make soup, which is said to have the effects of invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation and helping yang. At the end of last century, Jiaxing men also liked to wash eggs with hot yellow wine and shredded ginger, saying that they could drive away cold, stimulate appetite and cheer up.

3. Red bean glutinous rice. In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice on the night of winter solstice. Red bean glutinous rice is a home-cooked dish with glutinous rice and peanuts as the main ingredients and bacon, salt and chicken powder as the ingredients.

4. Pickled vegetables in winter. Winter cuisine is a special dish in Hangzhou. The selected materials are Chinese cabbage, salt and so on. The required equipment is a vat for pickling winter pickles.