1. Mutton Soup During the Xiaohan season, it is a good time to eat mutton for nourishment.

Mutton can warm yang and replenish deficiency, and is cooked with angelica, yam, carrots and other ingredients, supplemented by green onions and ginger for seasoning.

If you eat it once a week, you will not get angry and you can spend the winter warmly. It is very suitable for people who are usually weak and afraid of the cold, have lukewarm limbs, are tired, and have insufficient energy and blood.

2. Yellow sprouts According to "Jinmen Miscellaneous Notes", there was a custom of Xiaohan eating yellow sprouts in Tianjin area in the old days.

After the winter solstice, cut off the stems and leaves of cabbage, leaving only the heart, about two inches above the ground, cover it with manure and keep it from breathing. Eat it after half a month. It will be extremely crisp and tender, which can make up for the lack of winter vegetables.

This dish is beneficial to the eater's resistance, elimination of fatigue, quenching thirst, diuresis, and gastrointestinal relief.

3. Glutinous rice: Guangzhou has the custom of eating glutinous rice in the morning during the Xiaohan season.

Generally, glutinous rice, fragrant rice, fried bacon, sausage, peanuts and chopped scallions are used and mixed with rice to eat, which means it will be warm from the beginning to the end of the year.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice has the effect of warming the spleen and stomach and replenishing qi. It is very suitable to eat glutinous rice in the cold season.