1, eat glutinous rice

In the vast areas of southern China, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice in the cold. Although this custom sounds simple, it contains the life experience accumulated by predecessors.

Step 2 eat eight-treasure rice

Like slight cold, the severe cold solar term is also the solar term indicating the degree of cold, and it is also the last solar term in a year, followed by beginning of spring in the coming year. Eight-treasure rice, a custom food of severe cold and solar terms, is a Han food, which is popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan area. Steamed glutinous rice, mixed with sugar, lard and osmanthus fragrans, poured into a container filled with fruit materials such as red dates, coix seed, lotus seeds and longan pulp, steamed and poured with sugar marinade. It tastes sweet and is a good holiday and hospitality.

3. Delicious food

According to the custom of China, especially in rural areas, people are busy going to old cloth and new ones to pickle new year's vegetables and prepare new year's goods every cold festival. During the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs and festivals. For example, sumptuous food, kitchen sacrifices and New Year's Eve, and sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, are all in this solar term. The cold solar term is full of joy and festive atmosphere, and it is a cheerful and relaxed solar term. Tail teeth originated from the custom of worshipping the earth god as "teeth"

Step 4 drink chicken soup

In the cold winter, Nanjing people's daily diet is more stew and soup. The severe cold has reached the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the traditional eating custom of "one chicken" is still respected by many citizens' families. Nanjing people choose old hens, or stew them alone, or add ginseng, medlar, black fungus and so on. Drinking chicken soup in cold winter is really a pleasure.

Step 5 welcome the new year

The severe cold solar terms often coincide with the end of the year. Therefore, in this solar term, in addition to doing farm work according to the solar term, we also have to rush about for the New Year-catching up on new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweeping away dust and wiping things, removing old cloth, preparing new year's goods, curing all kinds of sausages and bacon, or cooking new year's dishes such as chicken, duck and fish.