Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice won't freeze your ears. This statement comes from the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. He saw that people's ears were frozen in the cold, so he used bread to dispel the cold and cooked it into Joule soup to cure people's ears. Today, eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is no longer to cure frozen ears, but a reasonable combination of noodles, vegetables and meat, making 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.

2. white radish

As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", and the water content of radish is as high as 93.4%, which is the first choice for replenishing water in winter. Eating raw white radish promotes digestion, because its spicy ingredients can promote gastric juice secretion, regulate gastrointestinal function and have a strong anti-inflammatory effect. Cooked food can benefit qi and smooth qi, especially when stewed with pork and mutton, the effect is better. In addition, the mineral content in radish is also high, which can enhance human immunity and prevent colds.

3. Mutton

Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton from 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.

4. Tangyuan

Tangyuan is an essential food for dietotherapy in winter, which means "reunion". Nowadays, eating glutinous rice balls in winter is very popular all over the country. 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.