Beginning of winter "winter tonic", every household must boil root soup, chop the roots of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhus verniciflua, Litsea cubeba and Paeonia suffruticosa into pieces, put them in a pot to boil thick root soup, remove the root pieces, and then add chicken, duck, rabbit meat or pig's trotters and pig's bellies to boil.
There are many kinds of grass roots and various formulas, but they can't escape the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening stomach and strengthening waist and knees. In Chaoshan area, beginning of winter wants to eat sugar cane and fried fragrant rice. Sugarcane can become one of the foods for "supplementing winter" because there has always been a folk saying that "beginning of winter eats sugarcane without pain", which means that the sugarcane of "beginning of winter" is ripe and will not get angry after eating it. At this time, "eating sugar cane" can not only protect teeth, but also play a nourishing role.
In the north, beginning of winter has the custom of eating jiaozi. In northern China, we usually eat jiaozi at festivals. There is a saying that jiaozi comes from "the time of sexual intercourse". New Year's Eve is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter. When jiaozi is in love, he can't help eating. People are used to this custom.
In the north, it is the custom to eat jiaozi in winter, because jiaozi looks like ears. People think that if you eat them, your ears won't catch a cold in winter. Beginning of winter, wrapped in jiaozi, tastes different from Chinese cabbage, but also dipped in vinegar and rotten garlic to eat, just don't have a taste. Autumn harvest and winter storage, this day, in order to improve our life, we chose "delicious but jiaozi".