It is called a slight cold instead of a great cold because the solar terms originated in the Yellow River valley. twenty-four solar term said, "The cold is still small at the beginning of the month ... and it is heavy at half past the month", which has only continued to this day according to the situation at that time. As soon as the "slight cold" passed, it entered the three or nine days of "going out on the ice".
Slight cold three times refers to:
1, wait for Yanbei Township. Among the migratory birds, the geese migrate along the yin and yang, and at this time, the yang has moved, so the geese began to migrate northward. noteworthy
Yes, the hometown of "Yanbei Township" actually reads "xiàng", which means "Xiang" and guiding. ?
2. Wait for the magpies to start their nests. Birds themselves have the ability to learn about climate change at the earliest, and by the time they wait, magpies have won the solar terms for the coming year, so magpies can
Nest with grass, ready to breed offspring. ?
3, three waiting for the pheasant to start. "It means that the pheasant will sing when it is close to" April 9th ". The pheasant here is a kind of feather.
Beautiful pheasants (commonly known as pheasants) are also male birds, and "pheasant" means "singing", which is the courtship sound of pheasants.
Customs of slight cold solar terms:
1, eat vegetable rice
It is the custom of old Nanjing to eat vegetable rice with slight cold. People in Nanjing attach great importance to slight cold. People will cook vegetable rice with glutinous rice, ginger, short leg yellow, sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is yin evil, slight cold is the coldest solar term in a year, and it is also the most prosperous period of yin qi. The glutinous rice in Nanjing vegetable rice can tonify the middle energizer, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, which can enhance the body's ability to resist cold pathogens; Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung and dispelling cold. In addition, Nanjing's specialty short-legged yellow, sausage and salted duck, which are both medicine and food, are delicious, especially warm after eating in winter, and can be comparable to Laba porridge.
2. Eat glutinous rice flour
Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiaohan eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped scallions and mix them in the rice.
3. Eat Laba porridge
One of the important folk customs in the "slight cold" solar terms in diet is to eat "Laba porridge". It is recorded in Yanjing Age Records that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red cowpeas, peeled jujube paste, etc., and dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes for external use. All the above foods are sweet and warm, and have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
The ancients in China called porridge rice the first tonic in the world, and thought that eating porridge can prolong life. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that porridge can "replenish qi, promote fluid production, nourish spleen and stomach, and treat deficiency and cold". Zhang Lei's "The Story of Porridge" also said: "Every day, eating a large bowl of porridge, empty stomach deficiency, grain gas will make it, the tonic is not fine, and it is extremely soft and greasy, which is compatible with the stomach and intestines."