The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. Fighting refers to ugliness; The solar meridian reaches 300; On the Gregorian calendar 1 20-21day every year. Great cold, like slight cold, is a solar term indicating the degree of cold weather, and great cold means extreme cold weather. The great cold solar term is in the period of March 9 and April 9, when cold waves frequently go south, which is the coldest season of the year.
The great cold comes at the end of the year, winter goes to spring, and after the great cold, a new cycle begins.
In some places in China, during the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there are many important folk customs, such as removing old cloth and making preserved meat, offering sacrifices to stoves and ending sumptuous food. Tail sumptuous food, also known as "making teeth" and "making sumptuous food", has the folk custom of "eating tail teeth" after finishing sumptuous food. The popular "Annual Meeting" at the end of the year is a legacy of "Wei sumptuous food".
The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms, and it is called "Great Cold" every year when the sun reaches 300 degrees on the Gregorian calendar 1 month 20-2 1 day. Quoting Three Rites and Righteousness Zong, Shi Shi Tong Kao Tian explained: "The great cold is the middle one, and the upper form is the slight cold, so it is called great ... the extreme of cold, so it is called great cold." It is said that the cold is cold.
This festival is in the period of March 9 and April 9, when cold waves frequently go south, which is the coldest season of the year and the period with the least rain. As the folk saying goes, "A slight cold is severe, and there is no wind and it is cold." Great cold means extreme cold weather. It is a season when vitality lurks and everything hides.