1, eat mutton

According to folklore, "Slight cold eats mutton, while great cold eats radish". Slight cold is the coldest time of the year, and mutton is also a popular traditional food in the solar terms of slight cold. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm food, which can not only protect against cold, but also replenish the body. If you add some angelica, yam and carrot to mutton and cook it together, it will not get angry, and you can spend a warm winter.

2. Eat Laba porridge

Because the time of Laba Festival is between slight cold and severe cold, many places have the custom of eating Laba porridge on this day of slight cold. Laba porridge has many ingredients, such as yellow rice, Redmi, white rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red beans, jujube paste, etc., and boiled with peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, brown sugar, white sugar and raisins.

3. Eat yellow sprouts

In the slight cold, the old Nanjing usually cooks vegetable rice, the content of which is different. It is useful to cook short-legged yellow vegetables with bacon slices, sausage slices or diced salted duck, and then chop some ginger grains with glutinous rice, which is very delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as the real "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge.

4. Eat glutinous rice

As the saying goes, "A slight cold and a severe cold are cold without wind", and the custom of eating glutinous rice to drive away the cold in a slight cold and a severe cold is popular in Guangdong. Besides glutinous rice, bacon, sausage and peanuts, traditional preserved glutinous rice also includes mushrooms, dried shrimps, scallops, coriander, barbecued pork, squid and so on. Generally, glutinous rice is eaten in the morning of slight cold and severe cold, but because there is no time to go to school and work, it is changed to eat at night.

5. Eat vegetable rice

In ancient times, Nanjing people paid special attention to slight cold, but with the passage of time, it has gradually faded now. However, the custom of eating vegetable rice in the slight cold season is still very popular. In poor families or difficult times, vegetable rice is boiled rice with vegetables and salt. If the conditions are good, it is served with bacon, sausage, ham and diced salted duck, and then chopped with some ginger and cooked with glutinous rice, which is very delicious.

6. Warm chicken soup

Old Nanjing also has the tonic habit of eating a chicken and an egg every September, so chicken soup and eggs are indispensable on the table of citizens on this day of slight cold. The medicinal value of chicken is great, and the people have the reputation of "good medicine for saving the world". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken has the effects of warming the middle warmer, benefiting qi, replenishing essence and filling marrow.