After the winter solstice, the yin qi began to fade, and the yang qi gradually picked up. At this time, it is a good time for tonic, and it is easy to play its role in both diet and medicine. Speaking of tonic, there are two kinds, one is food tonic and the other is medicine tonic, but "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic". Eating porridge in winter and drinking a bowl of hot and delicious porridge at cold temperatures is a delicious meal for adults who come home from work, children who come back from school and old people who rest at home. Porridge is usually cooked with rice, which tastes sweet and flat, while other rice, such as millet, broomcorn millet and coix seed, are sweet and slightly cold. Therefore, eating rice in winter is more beneficial. Rice has the effects of regulating stomach qi, tonifying spleen deficiency, strengthening bones and muscles, and regulating five internal organs. Besides cooking rice porridge, it can also be cooked into:

Yam porridge: 50 grams of yam (peeled), 50 grams of rice, honey and cooking oil. Cut the yam into small pieces, stir-fry with oil, add honey, boil the rice into porridge, add the fried yam and boil it, and serve. Yam is a good product for nourishing kidney and spleen.

Chestnut porridge: 50 grams of chestnuts (peeled), 50 grams of rice and a little salt. Cook raw chestnuts in a pressure cooker (less water), peel them, mash them, put them into washed rice, add water to cook porridge, and add salt to taste. Chestnut can tonify kidney, and has dietotherapy effect on soreness or pain of waist and knees caused by deficiency of kidney qi.

Sesame porridge: sesame10g, 50g of rice, and proper amount of honey or salt. Stir-fry sesame seeds for fragrance, wash and cook rice into porridge, add sesame seeds, and add honey or salt to serve. Sesame seeds can be divided into white sesame seeds and black sesame seeds, and white sesame seeds are beneficial to intestine and lung qi; Black sesame seeds can enter the kidney and strengthen bones and muscles.

Almond porridge: about 20 almonds (peeled), 50 grams of rice, a little sugar or salt. Wash the rice and cook porridge. When it is almost cooked, add almonds and continue to cook until cooked. Add a little sugar or salt. Almond can relieve cough and asthma, eliminate phlegm and moisten dryness.

Walnut medlar porridge: 30 grams of walnut kernel, washed and mashed; Lycium barbarum15g, washed; 50 grams of rice, washed, and boiled with appropriate amount of water. It is a good diet therapy for neurasthenia and unclean urine.

Pear porridge: 3 pears, washed, peeled, pitted and cut into pieces. Add appropriate amount of water to boil for half an hour, wash 50 grams of rice and cook it into thick porridge. When it is almost ripe, add pear juice and pear pieces and cook until cooked. It has the functions of moistening lung, clearing heart, eliminating phlegm and reducing fire, and has dietotherapy effect on cough caused by lung heat in children.

Porridge with tripe and rice: 200g tripe, 50g rice and a little salt. Wash the tripe with salt, dice it, cook it with washed rice and water into rotten porridge, and add a little salt to taste. It is a good food for children with physical weakness, loss of appetite and limb weakness after illness.