1, Laba porridge
Generally speaking, slight cold is close to Laba Festival, so many places have the custom of eating Laba porridge on this day. Laba porridge has many ingredients, mainly glutinous rice, rice, black rice, red beans, peanuts, millet, chestnuts, raisins, longan, lotus seeds, brown sugar, broken nuts and so on. The ingredients used in the north and south are not the same.
2. Chicken soup
The slight cold solar term is in March and September, and there is a folk saying that "a chicken in September every year will keep you healthy in the coming year". The nutritional value of chicken is higher than red meat. Eating chicken in winter can not only provide rich nutrition for the body, but also effectively resist the cold. It is a good tonic in winter.
3. Glutinous rice
During the slight cold, Nanjing people usually eat vegetable rice, but the content is not the same. In ancient times, the poor cooked with oil, salt and vegetables, while the people with good conditions cooked with sausage, bacon, salted duck, glutinous rice and diced ginger.
4. Yellow bean sprouts
Eating soybean sprouts is a unique custom in Tianjin in the old days. Soybean sprouts are made from Chinese cabbage buds. After harvesting the cabbage, remove the stems and leaves, only keep the heart of the cabbage, then cover it with manure and take it out for half a month. It is very fresh and crisp. In the past, people used soybean sprouts to make up for the shortage of seasonal vegetables in winter.
5. jiaozi
In the north, there is a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as a year", so people will eat jiaozi at this time. It is said that eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", which means welcoming the New Year.
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