1. Eat sugar cane

In Chaoshan area, beginning of winter wants to eat sugarcane and stir-fried fragrant rice. Sugarcane can become one of the foods for "supplementing winter" because there has always been a folk saying that "eating sugarcane in beginning of winter is painless", which means that the sugarcane in "beginning of winter" is ripe and does not get angry when eaten. At this time, "eating sugarcane" can not only protect teeth, but also play a nourishing role. 　　

Step 2 drink grass root soup

Beginning of winter, commonly known as "Jiaodong" in central Fujian, means the turn of autumn and winter. Beginning of winter's "winter tonic", every household should boil the root soup, chop the roots of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhus sumac, Litsea cubeba and Melastoma into pieces, boil the thick root soup in the pot, remove the root pieces, and then add chicken, duck, rabbit meat or pig's trotters and pork bellies to boil. 　　

3. Eat Ciba

On this day in beginning of winter, the rural families in Zhangzhou will celebrate the good harvest with a "winter harvest". After the glutinous rice is steamed, pour it into a stone mortar, make it tough and sticky, pull it into the size of a table tennis ball, and knead it into a ball carefully; Peanuts are fried fragrant, ground finely and mixed with white sugar. The prepared rice cake is rolled with white sugar peanut powder and placed in a sea bowl. When eating, string a few pieces with chopsticks in one breath, just like a rattle, so it is also called "plucking the waves". To do a good job of "making a winter meal", we must respect the land god and thank him for his generosity.

4. Bacon paella

In Changzhou, Suzhou, beginning of winter will have the custom of eating salted vegetable rice, mainly because the local people think that "eating salty and tonifying the kidney". Saltiness is the first of the five flavors, which can tonify kidney qi. After beginning of winter, the weather turned cold, and people's yang declined, so it was necessary to eat something salty to tonify the kidney, so the paella with bacon came into being. Bacon paella, with autumn vegetables and fat and thin bacon, with the new rice of that year, is finally cooked in a earthen stove. The bacon vegetable rice made in this way is fragrant and waxy, salty and delicious.