What you can eat in winter is: salted meat and vegetables, red beans and glutinous rice, chestnut fried rice.
1, salted meat and vegetable rice
In the winter season, there is such a custom in Suzhou, eat a bowl of salted meat and vegetable rice. As good as it sounds, vegetables, salted meat and rice go together to make a pot of rice that not only looks good, but also tastes good.
2, red bean sticky rice
Red bean sticky rice is mainly popular in the Jiangnan water town, in the day of winter, every family will use red beans and glutinous rice and sugar to make red bean sticky rice. The ingredients are steamed in a pot and served hot, and the whole family gathers together to eat the sticky rice.
3. Chestnut Fried Rice
Every season in Shantou is about eating different seasonal food, and as the saying goes, "a winter's tonic in the third quarter of the year is a good way to avoid illness in the coming year", "winter tonic" and chestnut fried rice is a unique custom in Shantou.
Customs of winter:
1, make up for the winter
The arrival of the winter season, so that the grass and trees wither, hibernating insects hide, the activities of all things tend to rest to hibernate state, to maintain vitality, for the next spring to prepare for the vitality of the vigorous. Although there is no human hibernation, but the folk have winter winter custom. People in general can eat some appropriate calorie higher food, especially in the north, you can eat some beef, mutton, but also to eat more fresh vegetables.
2, winter swimming
In Harbin, on the day of winter, the winter swimming association of Heilongjiang Province, the athletes across the Songhua River, in this way to meet the arrival of winter.
3, burning incense
The Manchu have the custom of burning incense. Winter, the autumn grain into the library, this season is the Manchu eight banners and the eight banners of the Han family burning incense ancestor of the active season. Han Banner's sacrifice called "burning flag incense jumping tiger god", Manchu Banner said "burning meat incense" "burning meat incense" 5-7 days, in the first three days of organizing ancestor incense burning The whole family for ten days in a row to eat fasting, do not eat meat.