We mainly eat instant-boiled mutton, sugar-fried chestnuts, baked sweet potatoes, glutinous rice, vegetable rice, Laba porridge, yellow bean sprouts, warm chicken soup and so on.

as the saying goes, "make up for one winter after three years, and there will be no illness in the coming year." It is the practice of eating mutton in winter to recuperate the body.

There is a custom of eating glutinous rice in Guangdong on the day of slight cold. Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiaohan eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 6% glutinous rice and 4% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped scallions and mix them in the rice.

daily diet in China, with the arrival of the slight cold season, people usually eat warm foods such as mutton and dog meat. There is a saying in the south of the Yangtze River that "it's a slight cold and a cold ice mass", which means that during this solar term, young people should be careful not to eat too much fat, sweet and spicy products to avoid acne and the like.

When is the slight cold?

The slight cold time in p>223: 23:4:39 on January 5th, and Thursday on the 14th day of the twelfth lunar month. Slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the 24 solar terms and the 5th solar term in winter.