The customs of winter are eating salted meat and vegetables, pickles, eating cakes, ancestor worship, winter brewing, and repairing farm equipment.

1, eat salted meat and vegetables

Suzhou region in the south of the Yangtze River, to the winter, families will be burned a few times on the salted meat and vegetables to taste, people's love of salted meat and vegetables, second only to the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings. Salted meat and vegetable rice, is with authentic frost thick Germany Suzhou big green vegetables and fat and thin both salted meat, and Suzhou white rice refined, unique flavor.

2, pickled vegetables

To the winter, is the best time to make pickles, because the winter vegetables are less, so folk are used to pickle the vegetables, in order to prepare for the whole day winter consumption. In the north, the most commonly pickled vegetables in winter, is the white radish, then leek flower, often eaten as a child.

3, eat cake

Customs around the world is not the same, in northern Shaanxi, Shanxi area, especially prevalent in the winter season to eat cake. Because this food is easy to store, it has become an essential winter food in rural areas.

4, ancestor worship

At the beginning of winter, the grain harvested in the fall has been put into storage, and began to enter the period of agricultural idleness. In the Benxi area of Liaoning, the eight banners of the Manchu and the eight banners of the Han army have the festive custom of burning incense to their ancestors. After the ancestor worship ceremony, there will be a big banquet to entertain all the clansmen who come to worship their ancestors. We drink and talk to each other.

5, winter brew

After winter, the temperature drops, the use of water and utensils are relatively easy to keep clean, so that the wine for a long time in a low-temperature fermentation state. Therefore, there is a custom of "winter brewing" in folklore. People will use the new rice, new grain or other grains to make a variety of good wine, such as rice wine, yellow wine, white wine and so on.

6, repair agricultural tools

In the winter season, the farmers should take advantage of the leisure time to check all the agricultural tools, refurbishment. If found damaged or unusable, to be immediately repaired or to be added, so as not to miss the spring farming time.

Reference: Baidu Wikipedia - Winter