Beginning of winter in the north eats radish, old duck pot, jiaozi, fermented yellow wine, mutton, sugar cane, etc.

Radish old duck pot: winter is the time to nourish, and the combination of old duck and radish can bring their advantages to the extreme. The soup is mellow and fragrant, which is very suitable for a family to eat.

Mutton: Some parts of the north will eat mutton in beginning of winter on this day, which is fattened by mutton and supplemented by beginning of winter, and it is also the season to eat mutton. People often use roasting, frying and stewing, and each method has its own flavor and characteristics.

Jiaozi: As the saying goes, "You can't taste better than jiaozi". In northern beginning of winter, you want to eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi originated from the saying "when you have sex". Beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter, so jiaozi can't help eating when she's having sex.

Sugarcane: There is a custom of eating sugarcane in Fuzhou, Fujian. Sugarcane can be used as a food for winter, because there is a folk saying that "beginning of winter eats sugarcane without pain", which means that the sugarcane in beginning of winter is ripe and will not get angry after eating it. Eating sugarcane can protect teeth at this time.

Brewing yellow rice wine: beginning of winter Day is also the time to brew yellow rice wine, which is a traditional wine-making custom in Shaoxing. In winter, the water is cool and the temperature is low, which can inhibit the breeding of miscellaneous bacteria and make the wine form a good flavor during the long-term fermentation at low temperature.