【Winter Bowls】Morning Ritual of “Tounao”

这一餐吃下来，绝非简单的果腹。从舌尖到胃腹，一股扎实的暖流缓缓铺开，渐渐蔓延至四肢百骸。尤其在寒气侵骨的清晨，一碗“头脑”下肚，额角微微沁汗，通体舒泰，仿佛连呼吸都带着从容的热气。这便是老太原人“赶头脑”的智慧——赶在日出之前，用这一碗凝结着食补智慧的热羹，为一天注入御寒的底气。

This meal is far from mere sustenance. From tongue to stomach, a solid warmth gradually spreads, extending to the limbs and throughout the body. Especially on biting-cold mornings, after finishing a bowl of “Tounao,” a light sweat beads at the temples, and the whole body feels comforted and at ease, as if even one’s breath carries a composed warmth. This is the wisdom behind old Taiyuan residents’ practice of “chasing Tounao”—to seize, before sunrise, a bowl of this thermal, nourishing soup steeped in culinary wisdom, and arm themselves with the fortitude to face the day’s cold.

如今，这碗汤早已超越了早餐的范畴，成为一座城市的冬日仪式。若你初次来太原，务必寻一个清冷的早晨，坐下“赶一回头脑”。尝的不只是三百年的非遗之味，更是这方水土在漫长寒冬里，用食物写就的、一份温柔而倔强的生存诗篇。

Today, this soup has long transcended breakfast to become a winter ritual of the city. If you visit Taiyuan for the first time, be sure to find a crisp morning, sit down, and “chase Tounao” once. What you taste is not only a three-century-old heritage flavor but also a gentle yet resilient poetic survival guide, written with food by this land through its long, cold winters.

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