Farming went to the north for a winter break, while rape furrowing and wheat topdressing were carried out in the south. As a result, people began to write Spring Festival couplets, cut window flowers and go to the market to buy New Year pictures. The slight cold weather is extremely cold, and the northern and southern regions span greatly, which will form different production, farming and living customs.

1, Laba Festival

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddha-Daoism Festival" and "Daoism Meeting". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba Festival is mainly popular in northern China, and the festival custom is to drink Laba porridge.

2. Eat glutinous rice

In Guangzhou, Xiao Han wants to eat glutinous rice in the morning. Glutinous rice is not just as simple as cooking glutinous rice. It will be served with fried "bacon" (Cantonese commonly call sausage and bacon "bacon"), coriander, chopped green onion and other materials, which tastes particularly fragrant.

"preserved flavor" is essential for cooking glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and cold-resistant; On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky, and the smell of rice is heavy. It needs some oils to be mixed to taste fragrant.

3. Counting the 99-99 winter

Counting nine, also known as Winter Nine Nine, is an ancient folk method to calculate cold weather. The method of counting the cold days with the number of nine has been passed down from mouth to mouth among the people in China, which has a history and lacks records. As for the origin, there is no exact information. Count nine songs: "If you don't make a move in 1929, walk on the ice in 3949, watch the willows along the river in 5969, open the river in 79, swallow it in 89, and plow the cows everywhere." "

Life customs of slight cold solar terms

In life, apart from keeping warm every day, people are getting stronger and stronger when they enter the slight cold year. People are busy writing Spring Festival couplets, cutting window flowers, going to the market to buy New Year pictures, colored lights, firecrackers, incense and so on, and preparing for the Spring Festival one after another.

In terms of diet, mutton hotpot, fried chestnuts with sugar and baked sweet potatoes have become a slight cold fashion. As the saying goes, "Three September supplements one winter, and there will be no illness in the coming year", which is the practice of eating mutton in winter to recuperate the body. According to "Miscellanies of Jinmen", there was a custom of eating yellow sprouts in Tianjin in the old days. Yellow sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, made from Chinese cabbage buds.

After the winter solstice, cut off the stems and leaves of the cabbage, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about two inches from the ground, covered with manure, and not breathable. After half a month, it is crisp and tender, making up for the lack of vegetables in winter. Modern people's living standards have improved, and all kinds of vegetables and meat are available in all seasons, so they are no longer worried about the scarcity of vegetables in winter as in the past.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-the custom of slight cold solar terms.

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