1, meat tonic. The main traditional custom in beginning of winter is winter tonic. Jiaxing people usually like to eat pig's trotters, beef, mutton, hens, ducks, soft-shelled turtles and other foods as tonic, while nourishing drugs include Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Colla Corii Asini and Colla Cornus Cervi.

2. Drink soup to replenish qi. On this day in beginning of winter every year, old Jiaxing people will also cook soup with red dates, longan and walnut meat, which is said to have the effect of invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation and helping yang. At the end of last century, Jiaxing men also liked to use hot yellow rice wine and shredded ginger to wash eggs, saying that it could drive away cold, stimulate appetite and invigorate the spirit.

3. Red bean glutinous rice. In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together on the night of the winter solstice to eat red beans and glutinous rice. Red bean glutinous rice is a home-cooked dish with glutinous rice and peanuts as the main ingredients and bacon, salt and chicken powder as the ingredients.

4. Pickled vegetables in winter. Winter pickles is a special dish in Hangzhou. The selected materials are Chinese cabbage, salt, etc. The required equipment is a vat for pickling winter pickles.