1, most of the region: must eat dumplings, in the north, all important festivals have to eat dumplings, and winter is one of the ancient folk "four times and eight sections", is to enjoy the harvest, rest and recuperation of the festival, and more to food to celebrate, especially Beijing, Tianjin, the people of winter pay attention to eat dumplings, dumplings from the The dumplings come from "the time of the cross", which is at the turn of fall and winter, so the dumplings at the time of the cross cannot be left out. Some places have the custom of eating pumpkin or soft jujube in winter, and in the "old Tianjin Wei" settlement in Hedong, Tianjin, people eat dumplings stuffed with Japanese gourd.
2. Beijing: Shabu-shabu (涮羊肉), a traditional Chinese dish that was eaten at the court in the Qing Dynasty, was a wintertime favorite because it was a warm tonic for the internal organs, which were then warmed up so that they could naturally withstand the winter cold, and later on folk were also keen on it, such as shabu-shabu (shabu-shabu) in the old Beijing style. In addition to winter tonic body, you can eat some dog meat, mutton, beef, chicken, venison, shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber and other foods rich in protein and fat, calorie production, cold effect of good food.
3, Minzhong: simmering grassroots soup, winter, Minzhong households to simmer grassroots soup, will be the root of Angelica dahurica, salt wood root, celandine root, ground ripening root, etc. chopped into slices, down to the pot to simmer out of the thick grassroots soup, fish out of the root, and then add chicken, duck, rabbit, or pig's trotters, pork belly, etc. simmering. There are many varieties of grass roots and many different recipes, but they can't hide from the functions of tonifying the kidney, strengthening the stomach, and strengthening the waist and knees.
4, Zhangzhou: eat cross winter patty, the day of the winter, Zhangzhou's rural families to pound "cross winter patty" to celebrate the good harvest. Glutinous rice steamed and poured into the stone mortar, pounded tough, sticky, pulled into the size of a ping-pong ball, carefully kneaded into a ball; peanut rice fried fragrant, finely ground, and sugar mixed together. The mochi is rolled in sugar and peanut flour and placed in a large bowl. When you eat it, use chopsticks to skewer a few grains in one gulp, just like a rattle, so it is also called "rattle mochi".
5, Nanjing: eat raw onions, Nanjing has a proverb: "half a day onions, into the winter legs with the wind." A winter, the old Nanjing people pay special attention to eat raw onions, to resist Nanjing winter cold and damp, reduce the occurrence of disease. Nanjing people also often put "winter whoosh disease plate, onion and then spicy mouth plate" this old saying hangs on the side of the mouth, in order to enter the winter after the health of the Nanjing people at this time also learn from the north to eat up the raw onions.
6, Chaoshan: eat sugar cane, Guangdong's Chaoshan region, sugar cane is a "complementary winter" food, because the folk have always had "winter eating cane toothache" said, meaning that "winter" of sugar cane has ripened. "Sugarcane is ripe and does not cause fire when eaten, and this time of the year, "eating sugarcane" not only protects the teeth, but also serves as a nourishing effect. In Shantou, people eat fragrant rice made of lotus seeds, shiitake mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots in winter. These are also warm foods.
7, Taiwan: mutton stove, ginger duck, in Taiwan, the streets of the "mutton stove", "ginger duck" and other winter tonic restaurant full of people, many families will also be stewed sesame oil chicken, four things to supplement the energy of the chicken, mutton hot, often eat easy to fire! Chinese medicine, pay attention to the "hot and cold" approach to food therapy, therefore, eat mutton with cool and sweet vegetables, can play a cool, detoxification, de-fire role.