2, eat raw onions. Nanjing has a proverb, half a day onion, winter legs with wind. A winter, the old Nanjing people will pay special attention to eat raw onions, to resist Nanjing winter cold and damp, reduce the occurrence of disease. According to the old man's method of speaking, onion is warm and pungent, can be dispersed so that people sweating, so that the body stagnation of Yang Qi with the sweat row, Yang Qi running will be smooth, the evil will be driven away with the sweat.
3, eat sugar cane, fried rice. In Fujian, Chaoshan, folk have always had winter eating sugar cane teeth do not hurt the saying, so winter to eat sugar cane, fried rice. Sugar cane in winter has matured, eaten without fire, not only can protect the teeth, but also play a nourishing effect. Sugarcane is one of the food of Chaoshan people to make up for winter.
4, eat mutton. In the motherland island of Taiwan, winter has the custom of eating meat to tonic. On the day of winter, the streets of the mutton stove, ginger duck and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families also stew their own sesame oil chicken and four things chicken to replenish energy.
5, eat hemp fruit. Winter day, Shangrao has a family to play hemp fruit "winter" (folk think hemp fruit is a complementary food) custom. Hemp fruit is popular in Shangrao, Fuzhou area of Han Chinese snacks. It is the steamed and steamed glutinous rice in a special stone trough (called "mortar"), with a wooden hammer first pounded, and then pounded, and then the large mass of hemp fruit with a clean hand pinched into a small ball of about 3cm, wrapped in the outside of the crushed fried beans, sesame seeds, sugar, etc. and into a sweet food.
6, eat ginger duck. In Taiwan on the day of winter, the streets of the 'mutton stove', 'ginger duck' and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken, four things chicken to replenish energy.
7, eat red beans and glutinous rice. In the Jiangnan water towns, there is a winter night the whole family gathered together *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. Legend has it that there is a person called **** Gong's, his son is not talented, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, died into the epidemic ghosts, continue to brutalize the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of adzuki beans, so people cook and eat adzuki beans and rice on the winter solstice, to avoid the epidemic ghosts, disaster prevention and relief.
8, brewing yellow wine. The day of winter began brewing yellow wine, is the traditional Shaoxing winemaking customs. Winter water body is clear and cold, the temperature is low, can effectively inhibit the breeding of bacteria, but also can make the wine in the low-temperature fermentation process for a long time to form a good flavor, is the most suitable season for winemaking fermentation. Therefore, Shaoxing people call the period from the beginning of winter to the beginning of spring the most suitable time for making yellow wine "winter brewing" to pray for welfare.
9, eat salted meat and vegetables. Eating a bowl of salted meat and vegetables on winter day is a specific custom in old Suzhou. With frosted greens, fat and thin salted meat, rice vinegar as raw materials, the use of brick stoves, straw as fuel, burned out of the rice and fragrant and glutinous. Although the salted meat and vegetable rice is not included in the famous recipes of Suzhou, it never lacks of diners who love it.