Lidong is the first festival of winter, representing the beginning of winter. The things to eat at the beginning of winter are: dumplings, sugar cane, scallions, glutinous rice with red beans, chicken, duck, fish and meat and so on.

1, dumplings: northern regions have the custom of eating dumplings at the beginning of winter, there are two reasons for eating dumplings, the first is that the dumplings come from "the time of the handover", and the second is that the dumplings are shaped like an ear, and it is believed that if you eat it, your ears will not freeze in winter.

2, sugarcane: sugarcane is one of the "winter" food, folk and "winter eating sugar cane teeth do not hurt," said.

3, onions: Nanjing has a proverb "half a day onions, winter legs with the wind", winter, Nanjing will eat raw onions, to resist the winter climate of wet and cold.

4, red beans and glutinous rice: in the water towns of Jiangnan, there is a winter night the whole family get together *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom.

5, chicken, duck, fish and meat: the southern region in the winter will eat some high-calorie food, such as chicken, duck, fish and meat, some will also be cooked with Chinese medicine to increase the efficacy of medicinal supplements.