1, most areas: jiaozi must eat. In the north, jiaozi is eaten at all important festivals. Beginning of winter is one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient times, and it is a solar term to enjoy a bumper harvest and recuperate. What's more important is to celebrate with food, especially in Beijing and Tianjin. beginning of winter pays attention to eating jiaozi. Their jiaozi comes from "the time of making love", and beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter, so it is the time of making love. In some places, beginning of winter has the custom of eating pumpkins or soft dates. In the "Old Tianjin Flavor" settlement in Hedong, Tianjin, people eat jiaozi stuffed with pumpkins.

2. Beijing: instant-boiled mutton. As for the court of Qing dynasty, it is a custom to eat instant-boiled mutton in early winter. Because mutton is a warm tonic, it is beneficial to the five internal organs. When the five internal organs are hot, it can naturally resist the cold in winter. Later, people were also keen on this, such as shabu-shabu in old Beijing. In addition, beginning of winter can eat more dog meat, mutton, beef, chicken, venison, shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber and other foods rich in protein and fat, with more calories and good cold-proof effect.

3. Central Fujian: Boiled Root Soup, beginning of winter. Every household in central Fujian should boil root soup and chop the roots of angelica dahurica, sumac, litsea cubeba and wild peony. After the thick root soup is boiled in a pot, remove the root pieces, and then add chicken, duck, rabbit meat or pig's trotters and pig's bellies to boil. There are many kinds of grass roots and various formulas, but they can't escape the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening stomach and strengthening waist and knees.

4. Zhangzhou: On the day when winter begins, rural families in Zhangzhou will celebrate the harvest with the "Jiaodong Year". After the glutinous rice is steamed, pour it into a stone mortar to make it tough and sticky, pull it to the size of a table tennis ball, and carefully knead it into a ball; Stir-fried peanuts, finely ground and mixed with sugar. The prepared rice cake is rolled with white sugar peanut powder and placed in a sea bowl. When eating, string a few pieces with chopsticks in one breath, just like a rattle, so it is also called "playing waves".

5. Nanjing: Eat raw onions. There is a proverb in Nanjing: "An onion and a half a day brings wind to your legs in winter." When they arrived in beginning of winter, the old Nanjing people paid special attention to eating raw onions to resist the cold and wet winter in Nanjing and reduce the incidence of diseases. Nanjing people often say that "beginning of winter brushes the diseased dish, and the scallion is hot in his mouth". In order to be healthy after winter, Nanjing people also learn from northerners to eat raw onions at this time.

6. Chaoshan: eat sugar cane. In Chaoshan area, Guangdong, sugarcane is a food for "supplementing winter", because there has always been a folk saying that "beginning of winter eats sugarcane without pain", which means that when the sugarcane of "beginning of winter" is ripe, it will not get angry after eating it. At this time, "eating sugar cane" can not only protect teeth, but also play a nourishing role. In Shantou, people eat fragrant rice made of lotus seeds, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots in early winter. These are also warm foods.

7. Taiwan Province Province: Mutton stoves and ginger ducks. In Taiwan Province Province, weddings, mutton stoves on the street, ginger duck and other winter tonic restaurants, many families also stew sesame oil chicken and Siwu chicken to supplement energy. Mutton is warm and easy to get angry when eaten. Chinese medicine pays attention to the dietotherapy method of "heat is cold". Therefore, when eating mutton, it should be accompanied by cold and sweet vegetables.