The characteristics of the slight cold solar term, slight cold, the sun reaches 285 degrees of the yellow meridian, and the festival is held on the 5 th to 7 th of the Gregorian calendar 1 month every year. The weather characteristic of slight cold is that it is getting colder, but it is not yet cold. As the saying goes, it is said that the cold is in the March 9th, and because the March 9th in the middle of winter is basically within the slight cold solar terms, there is a saying that a slight cold is better than a great cold.

It is the custom to eat glutinous rice during the slight cold season. When it comes to the slight cold, some areas in Guangdong will also cook rice for the holidays, but they will cook glutinous rice instead of vegetable rice. However, the glutinous rice eaten on holidays is not just as easy as cooking glutinous rice. It will be added with fried bacon (Cantonese collectively refer to sausages and bacon as bacon), coriander, chopped green onion and other raw materials, which tastes very fragrant. Preserved meat is necessary for cooking glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and keeps out the cold. On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky and the smell of rice is heavy, so it needs to be mixed with some oils to taste fragrant.

During the slight cold season, most parts of China have entered a period of severe cold, 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 several cold days. Although it is not as cold as the north in the south of our country, the temperature has dropped obviously. The coldest time in the south is slight cold and between rain and fright. It is dry and cold when it is slightly cold, but it is wet and cold after rain.