According to Chinese custom, winter is a good time for the body "tonic", commonly known as "winter". In Chinese medicine, the winter solstice is considered to be the day to supplement the body's most easily absorbed, and the cold is not easy to fire.

The winter solstice is heaven and earth yin and yang qi cross hub, but also the human body yin and yang qi cross the relevant moments, so winter tonic often choose to start in the winter solstice day, the medicinal nature of the preferred in the warmth of the yang, but it should be warm and not dispersed, hot and not dry mainly.

Particularly in Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quan, Taiwan, the winter solstice tonic winter is very important. Make up on the winter solstice is to adapt to the seasonal changes in climate, adjust the body quality, strengthen the body to withstand the cold winter. In Chinese folklore there are generally different habits such as eating soup dumplings, eating tofu, wrapping dumplings and drinking mutton soup.

Source of winter tonic

The Chinese medicine believes that "everything is born in the spring, grows in the summer, harvested in the fall, hidden in the winter, people also also." That is to say, winter is the best time of the year to maintain and accumulate. People's appetite in winter, the spleen and stomach transportation and transformation of prosperous, at this time to supplement the absorption rate is high, more can play the role of complementary body, less investment, quick results. Facts have proved that winter tonic can not only nourish the body, but also enhance the body, improve the body's ability to resist disease.

The winter season means that winter has officially arrived. This season, grass and trees withered, dormant insects dormant, although there is no hibernation of humans, but the folk have winter winter winter custom.

While after the winter solstice day is getting longer and longer, the night is getting shorter and shorter, the yin gas is also full and declining; but generally after the winter solstice, the cold weather will continue for a period of time, in order to ward off the cold winter, the Chinese folk used to before and after the winter solstice, "make up for the winter", and the winter after the winter, the weather is sometimes cold and sometimes hot, not yet begun to winter tonic populace, can grasp this time to make up for some. The people who have not yet started the winter supplement, can master this time to make up for some.