1, eat dumplings

When winter, dumplings, taste both different from the cabbage, but also dipped in vinegar with rotten garlic to eat, to be considered a different flavor. Because our country to agriculture as a country, attach great importance to the twenty-four seasons, "festival", the grass and trees new growth point also. On the day of the fall harvest and the winter harvest, to improve life, we chose "delicious but dumplings".

2, eat salted meat and vegetables

Eat a bowl of salted meat and vegetables on the day of winter, is a specific custom of the old Suzhou. The rice is made of frosted greens, fat and thin salted rice vinegar as raw materials, using brick stoves and fueled by straw, and burns out fragrant and sticky.

Expanded Information:

After the onset of winter, sunshine hours will continue to shorten, and the height of the sun at noon continues to decrease.

Winter ordinary prevalence of northeasterly and northerly winds, the temperature gradually decline, due to the surface of the stored heat there is still a certain amount of energy, so generally the early winter period is not yet very cold; with the passage of time, the strong cold air southward frequently, and cross the South Ridge, the weather is getting colder and colder. In the northern regions, it is already cold before winter.

Traditionally, the "winter" as the beginning of winter, "spring, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter," winter is to enjoy the harvest, rest and recuperation of the season, winter in ancient folk "four times and eight festivals "One of the ancient folk "four times eight sections, in some parts of China in ancient times will be held in the winter rituals, banquets and other activities, as an important festival to celebrate.