Laba porridge, chicken soup and vegetable rice are all traditional foods that southerners eat during the Little Cold Festival. Guangzhou tradition is to eat glutinous rice in the morning in Xiaohan. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped scallions and mix them in the rice. Glutinous rice means warmth, which is warm from the beginning to the end of the year. Because glutinous rice has a higher sugar content than rice, it feels warm all over the body after eating, which is conducive to driving out the cold.

What does slight cold mean?

The slight cold solar term, at the intersection of 1 p.m. 14 in the afternoon, the sun reaches 285 degrees of the yellow meridian. According to the ancient method of judging solar terms by the big dipper, fighting refers to five as slight cold. The ancients thought that cold air accumulated for a long time was cold, and the degree of cold was not extreme, so it was called slight cold, which was the December festival of the summer calendar.

What does the slight cold solar terms eat?

1, eat vegetable rice

Vegetable rice is not a meal. In the slight cold, some places will cook vegetable rice to eat. There are different ways to cook vegetable rice. The famous "Nanjing vegetable rice" is cooked with "short-legged yellow" vegetables, sliced bacon, sausage or diced dried salted duck, ginger and glutinous rice, which is very fragrant and delicious.

2. Plaster recipe

The slight cold season is also the busiest time for Chinese medicine shops. Generally, all the creams cooked in winter are eaten almost. By this time, some people will cook a little more and eat them before and after the Spring Festival. The cream can not only prevent and treat diseases, but also nourish the body.

3. Laba porridge

The ingredients used in Laba porridge are all sweet and warm products, which have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, tonifying the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, and quenching thirst. The ancients said that "porridge rice is the first tonic in the world" and believed that eating porridge can prolong life.

The custom of slight cold solar terms

1, plum exploration

In the slight cold season, wintersweet is in bloom, and red plums are in bud. Choose an excellent scenic spot with plum blossoms and enjoy it carefully. There is an elegant fragrance in your nose, which will refresh your mind.

2. Ice show

The slight cold is the coldest time of the year. At this time, the weather is cold in both the south and the north. At this time, the river is frozen and thick, and sledges are used to walk on the ice.

3. La Worship

The ancients would hold the La Worship to worship the gods in December, so the December where La Worship was located was called the twelfth lunar month. The wooden meaning of wax means "connecting", which means the handover of the old and the new. La Worship is one of the ancient sacrificial customs in China.