Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice, and in the south, they also like to bring mutton to hot pot on the winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the function of strengthening yang and tonifying deficiency. Mutton is sweet and warm, and has the function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. It has always been a good aphrodisiac and one of the important foods for tonic in winter. Mutton has higher calories than beef, and its iron content is six times that of pork, which has a significant effect on hematopoiesis. Eating mutton often in winter can replenish qi and deficiency, enrich blood and help yang, promote blood circulation and enhance the ability to keep out the cold.

Hot eight-treasure porridge is very suitable for a warm diet in winter. Chinese medicine believes that eating porridge can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and it has a certain effect of nourishing yin, just against the characteristics of dryness in winter. In order to keep out the cold, you can choose warm or mild foods that can strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as coix seed, jujube, walnut, peanut, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, longan, yam, tremella and so on. We might as well be creative and mix these ingredients into delicious porridge, such as mutton porridge, chicken porridge, jujube glutinous rice porridge, yam millet porridge, jujube tremella porridge and rice porridge.

"On the solstice of winter, jiaozi will not freeze its ears", which is an old proverb. In modern times, jiaozi is eaten in winter solstice to treat frozen ears, but the reasonable combination of noodles, vegetables and meat makes jiaozi a delicious food with comprehensive nutrition and easy digestion and absorption. Jiaozi can be stuffed with mutton, Chinese cabbage, green onions, leeks and radishes. These dishes are warm and have a certain warming effect on the human body.

Wonton used to be a very popular food in the north, but now South Renye Fang likes to eat it on the solstice in winter. There is a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles". Eating wonton in winter is beneficial to the storage of heat energy in cold season.

Yuanxiao means "reunion", and eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is very popular all over the country now. The materials commonly used to make glutinous rice balls, such as glutinous rice, sesame seeds and red beans, are also warm and have a good spleen-strengthening effect. When the spleen and stomach are healthy, dietary nutrition will be absorbed and utilized by the body, improving the cold resistance of the body and preventing diseases. Best for winter.