There are patties, glutinous rice with red beans and mutton hot pot in the Lidong festival.

1, patty cake

Eating patty cake at the beginning of winter is a traditional customary food in the northern Fujian region. Patty cake is made of glutinous rice ground and boiled, then kneaded repeatedly and dipped in sugar or cooked with various ingredients, the patty cake symbolizes the celebration of the harvest in autumn as well as the wishing of family members to be well and happy and complete.

2, azuki beans and glutinous rice

Azuki beans and glutinous rice is one of the customary foods of the winter season, from a person called **** Gong's, in the winter solstice, people eat azuki beans and glutinous rice to fight against epidemic ghosts of the cruelty, to express the epidemic ghosts of the avoidance and fear of the tradition passed on through the diet, so that people are reverent, hoping that the coming year peace and happiness.

3, mutton hot pot

Mutton hot pot is one of the customary food eaten in winter, because mutton hot pot eaten to warm the stomach, winter cold weather to eat a bowl of mutton hot pot can be replenished energy, warm body.

Farming activities in winter

Anciently, China was an agricultural country, and the winter season, like the other twenty-four solar terms, reflected climate change and the corresponding weather conditions, and had a practical significance in guiding agricultural production. The winter season is the southern autumn harvest winter planting of a good time, all over the world to make full use of the good weather, do a good job in the late rice harvest, sun, drying, to ensure that the quality of storage, after the winter, the northern agriculture and forestry crops into the winter period, the Jianghuai area of the "three autumn" (autumn harvest, autumn tube, autumn planting) is also close to the end of the.

Lidong festival, high-altitude westerly rapids in the southern region of Asia has been fully established, at this time the strength of the high-altitude westerly south branch fluctuations and eastward, when the Asian region into a latitudinal circulation, the westerly south branch of the fluctuations of the strong, there will be a wide range of cloudy and rainy weather, in addition, the end of the latitudinal circulation and the meridional circulation will also be established, and a cold wave and substantial cooling. Agricultural activities cool down and prevent cold.