Traditional delicacies during the Xiaohan solar term: eight-treasure porridge, glutinous rice balls, vegetable rice, etc.

1. Eight-treasure porridge Eight-treasure porridge is a delicacy that many southerners love to eat.

When the Xiaohan solar term arrives, many southerners will also cook a pot of eight-treasure porridge to eat with their families.

Babao porridge is generally made of rice, longan, peanuts, raisins, lotus seeds, wolfberry, red beans, red dates and other ingredients, added with water and cooked.

2. Tangyuan Tangyuan is one of the must-eat delicacies during the Xiaohan solar term in the south.

Tangyuan symbolizes reunion and harmony, with rich and varied fillings and a glutinous and delicate texture.

3. Vegetable rice. Old Nanjing people eat vegetable rice during the Xiaohan season. The ingredients include: fatty and lean bacon, slightly sweet vegetables after frost, and fragrant white rice newly harvested after autumn. The three main ingredients are:

Although the cooked bacon and vegetable rice is simple and plain, it tastes extremely delicious and satisfies the craving.

Introduction to Xiaohan: Xiaohan is the 23rd solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, the fifth solar term in winter, the end of the Zi month and the beginning of the Chou month.

Dou Zhi Gui, the sun's longitude is 285°, and it crosses between January 5 and 7 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Cold air accumulates for a long time and becomes cold. Xiaohan means that the weather is cold but not to the extreme. Like the Great Cold, Minor Heat, Great Heat and End of Heat, it is a solar term that expresses changes in temperature.

The characteristic of Xiaohan solar term is that it is cold, but it is not extremely cold.

During the Lesser Cold season, the sun's direct point is still in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere is still being lost. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so the temperature in the northern hemisphere continues to decrease.

After the winter solstice, cold air frequently moves southward, and the temperature continues to drop. The temperature drops to the lowest during the minor cold and major cold of the year.

Folk proverb says that during Xiaohan period, it is 239, and the weather is so cold that the weather is so cold that you tremble. This shows how cold the Xiaohan solar term is.