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What are the good health recipes to eat during the Winter Solstice to help women nourish their bodies?

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Asked on:Apr 12, 2026 04:38 AM

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  • Charisma Charisma

    Apr 12, 2026

      As the saying goes, "Three-nine tonics last through the winter, and there will be no pain in the coming year." Winter tonics have a long history in our country. The ancients believed that winter is the season when "vitality is latent and Yang Qi is hidden", and it is the best time to maintain and accumulate energy. Tomorrow (December 21) is the winter solstice, which is a very good day for health. So what is good to eat during the Winter Solstice? Don’t worry, let’s introduce two health-preserving recipes to help women nourish their bodies and spend the winter solstice safely.

      What to eat during the winter solstice? Healthy recipes help women nourish their bodies

      1. Gastrodia stewed black-bone chicken

      Ingredients: 1 black-bone chicken (about 750g), 25g Gastrodia elata, 10g each of Chuanxiong and Bai Fuling, 5g ginger slices, 10g cooking wine, appropriate amount of refined salt, a little coriander.

      practice:

      1. Put the black-bone chicken into cold water, bring to a boil, and blanch to remove the blood foam.

      2. Wash the Chinese medicine, put it into the belly of the chicken, and sew the mouth with thread.

      3. Put the black-bone chicken into a casserole, add ginger slices, cooking wine and an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for about 1 hour, add refined salt and simmer for about 20 minutes until the ingredients are cooked, sprinkle with coriander segments.

      Efficacy: Black-bone chicken can relax menstruation, activate blood circulation, regulate endocrine and other functions, which is good for the elderly. female Very beneficial. Gastrodia elata, Chuanxiong, Poria cocos pair nerve It has the effect of auxiliary treatment for debilitating dizziness, headache, insomnia, etc. It can not only calm the liver, extinguish wind and relieve pain, but also nourish, calm and calm the mind. When combined with black-bone chicken, etc., the tonifying effect is quite obvious.

      2. Achyranthes tendon

      Ingredients: 10g Achyranthes bidentata, 10% pork trotters, 50% chicken, 50g ham, 25g mushrooms, 5g pepper, 5g MSG, 30g Shaoxing wine, 10g ginger, 10g green onion, 5g salt, appropriate amount of clear soup.

      practice:

      1. Wash and soak the achyranthes and cut into oblique slices.

      2. Place the tendons in a steaming basin, add an appropriate amount of water, and steam for about 4 hours. When the tendons are soft, take them out, then soak them in cold water for 2 hours, peel off the outer fascia, and wash them.; Wash the ham and cut into shreds.

      3. After the mushrooms are blanched, cut into shreds; Wash the ginger and green onions and cut them into slices and green onions.

      4. Cut the swollen tendons into sections and chop the chicken into 2cm cubes.

      5. Put the tendons and chicken into a steaming bowl, place the ox knee slices on top of the chicken, mix well the shredded ham and mushrooms, and sprinkle them around; Put the ginger slices and green onion segments into a steaming bowl, add pepper, monosodium glutamate, Shaoxing wine, salt, and clear soup. Adjust the soup flavor, pour it into the steaming bowl, and steam it for about 3 hours. When the tendons are cooked, take it out of the cage immediately, remove the ginger slices and green onion segments, and season it. Serve.

      Efficacy: dispel rheumatism, nourish liver and kidney, strengthen muscles and bones.

      What to eat during the Winter Solstice Festival? Recommendations for must-eat foods during the Winter Solstice

      1. Dumplings

      Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, dumplings are an indispensable holiday meal for everyone, rich or poor. Dumplings are sold in major supermarkets and shopping malls. As the proverb goes: "On October 1st, when the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings. ”.

      2. Tangyuan

      There is an ancient poem that says: "Every family is pounding rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it is the winter solstice in the Ming Dynasty. ”Eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice is a traditional custom in my country, especially popular in Jiangnan. There is a saying among the people that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older". Tangyuan is also called glutinous rice balls, and eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings".

      3. Wontons

      In old Beijing, there is a saying of "Winter Solstice Wonton and Summer Solstice Noodles". "Yanjing Chronicles" says: "The shape of husband's wonton is like a chicken egg, which is quite similar to the chaos of heaven and earth, so it is eaten during the winter solstice during the solar eclipse. ”In addition to the similarity in shape, "wonton" is also homophonic with "chaos". Eating wontons in winter is beneficial to saving heat energy in cold seasons.

      4. Rice cake

      From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou like to eat rice cakes during the winter solstice. During the winter solstice, we make three meals of rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes with sesame powder mixed with white sugar. At noon, we eat fried rice cakes with fried vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, and shredded pork. For dinner, we eat rice cakes with potherb, shredded pork, and shredded bamboo shoots. Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will make you grow taller every year, which is auspicious.

      5. Glutinous rice cake

      In Yunnan, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice cakes during the winter solstice. Whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and weddings, glutinous rice cakes are made. Therefore, in my hometown, glutinous rice cakes are called "big glutinous rice dumplings", while today's common glutinous rice dumplings are called "little glutinous rice dumplings" with some disdain. On this day, the whole family gathers around the fire pit happily, chatting and laughing, baking glutinous rice cakes. When relatives and friends come to visit, the best gift is to bake a glutinous rice cake.

      6. Ginger Duck

      It can be said that Xiamen people have a special liking for duck. They eat duck all year round, including salt duck, sauce duck, roast duck, stewed duck with four ingredients, and ginger duck during the winter solstice.

      Ginger duck is made from red-faced Muscovy duck, stir-fry the duck meat with sesame oil until fragrant, and then add old ginger (ginger) and rice wine to stew it. It has the effects of soothing the liver and lungs, nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, relaxing the muscles and activating blood circulation, dispelling cold and reducing phlegm, etc. It is particularly nourishing. There are relatively few homemade ginger ducks, so as soon as the winter solstice arrives, many people start queuing up to buy ginger duck.