1, eat mutton
There are two big days to eat mutton in winter, one is beginning of winter, and the other is Solstice. Suzhou people firmly believe that the warmth brought by a bowl of mutton soup is enough to resist the cold of a winter. When eating mutton, it is best to match cool and sweet vegetables, such as cabbage and potatoes, to balance health.
Step 2 eat crabs
The most common way for Jiangsu people to eat crabs is to boil them. The pronunciation of "boil" in Suzhou dialect is similar to that of "brake", so some people say that the original intention of hairy crabs is to boil crabs. Although this is just a statement, it is enough to prove that Jiangsu people eat crabs with the original flavor as authentic.
3. Eat cream tonic
It is an old tradition of Suzhou people to go to beginning of winter for tonic in winter. In the old society of Jiangsu, some large families also used red ginseng, longan and walnut meat to make soup in winter.
4. Look at the weather and prepare winter tonic.
On that day, the phenological phenomenon in beginning of winter will determine the cold, hot, dry and wet in the whole winter, so there is a proverb in Jiangsu: it is sunny in beginning of winter and cold in winter; It's cloudy in early winter and warm all winter. On the occasion of beginning of winter, Jiangsu people will buy winter tonic, Cordyceps sinensis, donkey-hide gelatin and cream at this time, twice as much as usual. Buy these supplements, Suzhou people like to use them to make tea or stew chickens and ducks.
5. Eat paella
Eating a bowl of bacon and vegetable rice in winter is a special custom of old Suzhou people. The cooked rice is fragrant and waxy with frost cabbage, lean bacon and rice vinegar as raw materials and brick stove and straw as fuel.