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Culture Insider: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

(皇冠体育appculture.org) Updated: 2014-11-07 08:30 Comments

"Nourishing the winter"

On the first day of Start of Winter, there is a custom, "nourishing the winter", in Southeast 皇冠体育app in places such as Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan provinces. To prepare for the oncoming cold winter, people there like to eat high-calorie food such as chicken, duck, beef, mutton, and fish, which are usually stewed with the four Chinese medicines: angelica, ligusticum wallichii, Chinese herbaceous peony and rehmannia glutinosa libosch, to enhance the effectiveness of the nourishment.

Culture Insider: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

Stewed chicken.[file photo]

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