What is the best meal in early winter today?
1, red bean and glutinous rice
In Jiangnan water town, it can be said that it is a traditional custom for a family to get together and eat red bean glutinous rice. The method is also very simple, as long as the sweet and refreshing red beans and glutinous rice are simply stewed. Red beans taste sweet and soft, and glutinous rice smells more fragrant. You can also put some seasonings according to your taste.
Step 2 cook
The custom of eating rice in early winter in Chaoshan area originated from autumn harvest. In order to thank the ancestors for their bumper harvest, people cook a pot of fragrant rice with newly harvested rice and various ingredients to worship. Therefore, the most traditional cooking must use new rice.
Pot rice is also called rice in Chaoshan dialect, which means mixing and stirring, and it is also very simple to make. Mix immature rice with shrimp, meat, taro and other ingredients, stew together, and season with oil after cooking. The seemingly simple braised rice is actually both vegetarian and vegetarian, and it is also rich and relaxed.
Climatic characteristics of beginning of winter.
In ancient China, beginning of winter was divided into three periods, once every five days: when the ice started, the water waited; The second waiting place began to freeze; Waiting for the flood is a cockroach. "This kind of solar water can already form ice; The land also began to freeze.
In the third stage, pheasant refers to a big bird similar to pheasant, and pheasant is a big clam. After beginning of winter, big birds like pheasants were rare, but you can see big clams with similar lines and colors at the seaside. Therefore, the ancients thought that pheasants would become big clams in early winter.
Understanding "beginning of winter" can't just stay in the sense of beginning of winter. Tracing back to the source, the ancient people's understanding of "establishment" is the same as that of modern people, both of which mean establishment and beginning.
But the word "winter" is not so simple. In the ancient book "Twenty-four solar terms", the explanation of "winter" is: "Winter is the end, everything is harvested", which means that all crops in autumn are harvested, collected and put into storage, and animals have been hiding and hibernating. Beginning of winter means that at the beginning of winter, everything is collected to keep out the cold.