The traditional food of the Little Cold Food Festival is cold porridge, prickly heat, green balls and so on.

During the Cold Food Festival, people eat cold food, which means forbidding fire and driving away cold, and praying for peace and happiness in the new year. Among them, Taolin Zhuzi is a traditional cold food festival food, which is made of flour, glutinous rice flour and bean paste, and covered with golden wheat flour. In the production process, flour needs to be kneaded into dough with water, rolled into flour cakes and cut into thin strips. Then wrap the bean paste stuffing into the flour cake, and sprinkle with sesame seeds after cooking. The peach-forest dumplings taste crisp, and the golden wheat flour cake crust is matched with the sweet bean paste stuffing, which is absolutely unique.

Qingtuanzi is a popular snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is made of wormwood leaf juice and glutinous rice flour. The fillings can include bean paste stuffing and lotus seed paste stuffing. The making process is glutinous and soft, and the color is like jasper. It tastes sweet but not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma. The Cold Food Festival is the origin of the Cold Food Festival. On this day, people ban smoking and prepare cold food such as wheat porridge to commemorate the Cold Food Festival.

Meteorological changes

Folk proverb: It's February 39 when it's a slight cold, and it's freezing cold and shivering, which shows the degree of coldness of the solar terms. During the slight cold season, most areas of China have entered a severe cold period, with frozen soil and frozen rivers. In addition, the cold air in the north keeps going south, and the weather is cold. People call it nine cold days. Although it's not as cold and chilly as the north, the temperature in the south of China has also dropped significantly.

In ancient China, the slight cold was divided into three stages: first, waiting for Yanbei Township, second, waiting for magpies to start nesting, and third, waiting for pheasants to start swimming. The ancients thought that the geese among migratory birds migrated along the yin and yang, and at this time, the yang moved, so the geese began to move north. At this time, magpies could be seen everywhere in the north, and they began to nest and swim.