Our local children mainly eat mutton, earthen hot pot, and rice noodles and steamed buns during solar terms.

Rice noodle buns and local hot pot are foods commonly eaten during the Xiaohan season in Qingyang City, Gansu Province. The main ingredient for making rice noodle buns is fresh rice noodles. The finished product has a golden, soft appearance and a rich aroma.

The main ingredient for making earth hot pot is white radish slices, and the auxiliary ingredients include fungus, day lily, bean sprouts, vermicelli, mushrooms, tofu, etc.

Mutton is a common ingredient and can be used to make delicacies such as stewed mutton and braised mutton.

As the saying goes, "It's 239 during the Minor Cold, and the sky is cold and the ground is freezing, and the north wind is roaring." As we enter the Minor Cold, the weather is getting colder and colder, so we need to pay more attention to what we eat.

1. Nourishing Soup In the cold weather, the temperature in many areas will basically drop to the lowest level. It is very important to eat tonic to resist the severe cold. You should choose more warm foods to replenish calories and nutrients to the body in time.

It's great to stew a bowl of warm and nourishing soup with various ingredients, such as mutton and chicken.

2. Bean sprouts.

Eating soybean sprouts is a custom during the Xiaohan period. Soybean sprouts actually refer to the sprouts of cabbage. After the winter solstice, the stems and leaves of the harvested cabbage are cut off, and the cabbage heart is left covered with manure. After half a month, it is taken out and eaten.

The taste is fresh, crisp and tender.

3. Eat mutton.

According to folklore, it is necessary to nourish the body during the Xiaohan solar term, and mutton is the best choice for nourishment. Especially people with cold hands and feet should eat more mutton, because mutton has the effect of replenishing qi and warming the spleen and stomach.

4. Drink chicken soup.

There is a tonic custom of "getting a chicken on every ninth day", and Xiaohan will eat chicken on this day.

Chicken is rich in nutritional value and has lower fat content than pork and mutton. It is easily absorbed after being ingested into the body.

The Xiaohan solar term is when the weather is the coldest. Drinking some hot chicken soup can not only resist the cold, but also will not breed internal fire. It is a good nourishing food.

5. Xiaohan has the custom of eating vegetable rice.

The so-called vegetable rice is stir-fried with vegetables and rice.

Of course, it is not limited to these two. You can choose appropriate side dishes according to the taste of your family, such as bacon, sausage, ham, salted duck and so on.