During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is yin evil, slight cold is the coldest solar term in a year, and it is also the most prosperous period in Yin Qi. The glutinous rice in Nanjing vegetable rice can replenish the middle jiao, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and enhance the human body's ability to resist cold evil; Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung and dispelling cold. In addition, the specialties of Nanjing, such as short leg yellow, sausage and salted duck, are homologous in medicine and food, delicious in taste, and especially warm after eating in winter, which can be comparable to Laba porridge. The slight cold season is also the busiest time for old Chinese medicine practitioners and Chinese pharmacy. Generally, I have eaten almost all the paste cooked in winter. At this time, some people will cook more and eat it before and after the Spring Festival.
Residents' daily diet is also dominated by warm foods, such as mutton and dog meat, among which mutton soup is the most common, and some restaurants also provide angelica and ginger mutton soup. In recent years, some traditional winter mutton dishes have reappeared on the dining table, reappearing the cold winter eating customs in Nanjing.
As the saying goes, "a slight cold is cold, and it turns into a hockey." Nanjing people have a set of regional physical exercise methods in the slight cold season, such as skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, rolling iron rings, squeezing oil residue (squeezing walls), fighting cocks (propping up on one foot and fighting independently) and so on. If it snows, you will cheer, have a snowball fight and make a snowman. You will soon be warm and your blood vessels will be unobstructed.
The third custom of slight cold: eating glutinous rice
Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han 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 onions and mix in rice.
The fourth custom of slight cold: Laba porridge
Eating Laba porridge is an important folk custom in the "slight cold" solar term in diet. "Yanjing Times" records that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste and so on. 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. The ancients in China called porridge rice the first tonic in the world, and thought that eating porridge could prolong life. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that porridge can "replenish qi and promote fluid production, replenish spleen and stomach, and treat deficiency cold". Zhang Lei's "The Story of Porridge" also said: "If you eat a large bowl of porridge every day, it will be empty on an empty stomach, and the grain will make it. The tonic is not refined, and it is very soft and greasy, which is consistent with the stomach. "