1. fried rice: beginning of winter in Chaoshan area has the custom of eating fried rice. It's time for new rice to go on the market. Add white radish, garlic, pork, etc., and a simple and delicious wok is ready. According to reports, "dish" refers to the cooking method, which means burning, reflecting the rich cooking methods of Chaozhou cuisine.
2, tonic: Chaoshan people pay attention to beginning of winter tonic, that winter is the best day for tonic. Commonly used foods are silky fowl, partridge, pigeon, quail, water duck and so on. Food supplement is the tradition of Chaoshan people. After beginning of winter, it is warm and nourishing, and can resist the wet and cold weather in the south.
3. Eat sugar cane: There is a saying in Chaoshan area that "it doesn't hurt to eat sugar cane in beginning of winter". Chaoshan ancestors believed that eating beginning of winter sugarcane on this day could not only protect teeth, but also play a nourishing role.
4. Fried fragrant rice: Fried fragrant rice is a kind of fragrant rice made of peanuts, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots, which is eaten by people in early winter and is deeply loved by Chaoshan people. Chestnut is rich in nutritional value and crispy in taste. It is the first-class seasoning for fried rice and a hot commodity in the market.
5. Early winter chestnuts: Wash your hands before picking early winter chestnuts and pick ears of rice with full grains. The deeper the ear of rice, the greater the blessing. But with the changes of the times, "beginning of winter Xiaomi" can only be bought in the market.
The custom of beginning of winter
Beginning of winter, together with beginning of spring, Changxia and beginning of autumn, is a very important festival in the hearts of China people. Spring ploughing and summer sowing, autumn harvest and winter storage, and winter is also the season to enjoy a bumper harvest. China used to be a farming society. People who have worked for a year take advantage of beginning of winter to have a rest and repay their families for their hard work over the past year. There is a proverb that "beginning of winter fills the winter and the mouth" is the best metaphor.
Beginning of winter is one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient society, and it is a very important festival. In some areas of our country, there are customs such as ancestor worship, feasting and divination of the elderly. In order to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of future generations, we pray that God will give us a good year in the coming year.