Activities in the twelfth lunar month of the Great Cold is the last solar term in the last month of the "Twelfth lunar month". Although it is the slack season, every family is "busy" - busy celebrating the new year. This is the custom of "the great cold welcomes the new year".

1. "Eating Nuo" means that on the day of the Great Cold, it was popular among the ancients to eat food made from glutinous rice.

2. "Drinking porridge", that is, as the saying goes, "drinking Laba porridge". There is a long-standing custom of drinking porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. This kind of porridge is made of rice, beans, dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, wolfberries, chestnuts, nuts, longan,

Raisins, walnut kernels, etc. are boiled together.

3. "Indulge in drinking" means to let go of the feast and drink as much as you want.

Cai Yong's "Doctrine" of the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "La people hold a big sacrifice at the end of the year and let the officials have a feast."

4. "Tooth making", also known as "tooth making sacrifice", was originally a ceremony to worship the father-in-law of the land. This is where the commonly known delicious meal as "tooth making sacrifice" comes from.

There are "head teeth" and "tail teeth" when making teeth. The first teeth fall on the second day of the second lunar month and the tail teeth fall on the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month. The whole family sits together to "eat the tail teeth".

Customs during the Great Cold New Year: 1. "Paste the windows", which is to paste the windows with new paper. "Paper the windows to bring good luck." For the sake of beauty, some people will cut some auspicious patterns and paste them on the windows, so it is also called "window decoration".

It is usually held on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

2. "Steamed offerings" are the preparation of offerings for sacrifices. In the past, the pastries, pastries and steamed buns used for offerings were all steamed with flour, hence the name.

3. "Getting married", it is said that at the end of the twelfth lunar month, the gods went to heaven to "report on the work of the year". At this time, there are no taboos in the world. You don't have to choose a date to get married at this time, and it is the slack season, so the old folk scene is "New Year's Eve"

Yan Village is busy getting married."

4. "Going to the market", that is, the traditional New Year's market, where people buy supplies for the wax festival and buy new year's goods.

The custom of eating "cold cake" during the severe cold in Beijing has a long history in Beijing.

"Hanxiao Gao" is a type of rice cake. Not only does glutinous rice contain more sugar than rice, but the whole body feels warm after eating it. It has the effect of dispersing wind and cold, moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen and stomach. People also choose to eat rice cakes on the "Great Cold" day.

, also means "higher years", which brings good luck, peace and prosperity every year. "So in the old Beijing custom, the whole family eats rice cakes together on the cold day, which not only brings auspiciousness, but also can bring good luck.

It dispels the coldness in the body, so it is called 'cold-removing cake'.