Traditional foods for the hibernation season include pears, eggs, refried beans, taro, and pancakes.

1, pear

The arrival of the hibernation season, this season everything is recovering, and hibernation season time, the warm weather has just returned, in addition to pay attention to the cold and warmth, but also because of the climate is relatively dry, it is easy to make a person's mouth dry, cough, so in the Chinese folk hibernation to eat the custom of pear.

2, egg

Folk have hibernation to eat eggs, it is said to be because of the hibernation this day to sacrifice the white tiger, and the white tiger is usually fangs open mouth, only to feed the egg, after satiation, it will not hurt people. And through evolution, the eggs that were first fed to the white tiger have now become fed to the people themselves.

3, fried beans

People soak soybeans in salt water and then put them in a pan and fry them, making crackling noises to symbolize the sound of the bugs bouncing around as they fry in the heat of the pan.

4, taro

The Hakka people of western Gannan and Fujian will cook taro with hair in hot water on the day of the hibernation to symbolize the elimination of many kinds of insect pests.

5, pancakes

In some areas of Shandong, farmers in the hibernation in the courtyard in the fireplace pancakes, meaning that the smoke and fire whole dead pests.