Xiaohan's delicious food is Laba porridge.

Laba porridge is a kind of porridge cooked with a variety of ingredients on Laba Festival, also known as Qibao Wuwei porridge. Eating Laba porridge is a traditional custom in the slight cold solar term, which means celebrating the harvest and praying for health and happiness. The ingredients of Laba porridge vary from region to region, but usually include rice, millet, glutinous rice, soybeans, mung beans, red dates, longan and peanuts.

slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, the 5th solar term in winter, the end of the second month of the dry branch calendar and the beginning of the ugly month. Fighting fingers; The solar meridian is 285; On January 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

cold air is accumulated for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not yet extreme. Like severe cold, slight summer heat, great summer heat and summer heat, it is a solar term indicating the change of temperature. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

traditional customs

1. exploring plum

an important activity in the slight cold custom is called exploring plum. At this time, the wintersweet has blossomed and the red plum is in bud. Choose an excellent scenic spot with plum blossoms, enjoy it carefully, and your mind will be refreshed by the elegant fragrance in your nose.

2. Drawing nine numbers

Drawing nine numbers is an important content in the custom of slight cold. People draw pictures to represent the nine nines from the winter solstice to nine, and there are nine nines between each nine. These nine figures symbolize the cold and severe cold, which means that people should keep warm and avoid cold in the severe cold season. By drawing a picture and counting nine, people express their awe of the cold weather and their expectation of welcoming spring.