Drinking Laba porridge, eating vegetable rice, glutinous rice, boiling mutton, and making chicken soup are the main food customs in the Xiaohan season. Each custom has the purpose of winter health preservation: "Three nine days to replenish one winter, and there will be no pain in the coming year."

In addition, "If you exercise in winter, you will avoid getting sick; if you are lazy in winter, you will drink more medicine." The coldest solar term is also the period when "yin evil" is at its peak. From the perspective of diet and health, it is necessary to

Pay special attention to eating more warm foods in your daily diet to nourish the body and defend against the invasion of the human body by cold weather.

Therefore, the Xiaohan season is a good time to eat hot pot.

The simplest thing is a copper pot that conducts heat evenly. The bottom of the pot is pure water with ginger and scallions. There are no miscellaneous ingredients or flavors. This is the preference of foodies who value the original flavor of the pot.

Sitting together with family or friends, eating steaming hot pot, chewing on the fresh and crispy mutton, and sipping the fragrant and pleasant soup are the best match for this cold solar term.

In addition to eating mutton, when you cook mutton, you also need to have fresh chrysanthemum, lettuce, spinach, Chinese cabbage, fungus, mushrooms, tofu, tofu skin, vermicelli, fresh noodles and other necessary side dishes; then add it with an appropriate amount of cold boiled water

Add an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, sesame oil, chili oil, chive sauce, soybean curd, chopped cooked peanuts, chopped green onion, coriander and other small ingredients into the sesame sauce. No matter how cold the winter is, this warm meal will heal you.

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In areas such as Guangzhou in the south, on Xiaohan Day, a bowl of glutinous rice is served, which contains main ingredients such as bacon, sausages, dried shrimps, mushrooms, and peanuts. When paired with the glutinous rice, it is not only moist but not greasy, but also helpful for the body.

It is good for nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach; more importantly: eating glutinous rice is also a good sign, which means that it will be warm from the beginning to the end of the year (nuanlili).