How about "cold meets Laba, but grains are hard to touch the altar"? Why?

Laba is called off-year among the people. This is a warm-up before the Chinese New Year. After the Laba Festival, the atmosphere of the New Year will be more and more intense day by day, and everyone is busy cleaning up their homes and buying new year's goods. In order to prepare for the Chinese New Year, Laba is also in the cold stage. There is an old saying in the countryside called the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and freezing to death is called flowers. It means that in this cold season, those helpless beggars can hardly resist this cold weather. There are also many proverbs about Laba and Great Cold, among which there is an old saying called "When the Great Cold meets Laba, drink porridge to make a tail". What do you mean?

It is a long-standing tradition to hold sacrifices in Laba. In ancient times, the Lunar New Year was not celebrated according to the New Year's Day, but according to the 24 solar terms, and the latest solar terms and severe cold naturally became the tail of the year. The last day of the severe cold solar term is also the Lunar New Year, and the first day of beginning of spring is the beginning of the New Year. Therefore, there have been many sayings that beginning of spring is a new year. Up to now, some people were born in the first month, but because there is no solar term in beginning of spring in the first month, they think they belong to the zodiac of the previous year, which is also due to the solar term in beginning of spring.

Because the great cold used to be considered as the end of the year, in Laba, the traditional custom is to drink porridge. There are many folk stories about drinking porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Some people think it's because of the kitchen god, others say it's the countryside in the past. After the twelfth month. You will lack food and drink because there is no food. But on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was the coldest day, and the temperature was unbearable, so we had to leave the rest of the edible things at home. Put them all in the pot to cook porridge. Laba porridge in the past was not as rich in ingredients as Laba porridge today. It's delicious. In the past, Laba porridge was made of leftover grain tails gathered together. It is also a way to resist the cold.

For the arrival of the great cold solar terms, according to the ancients, the new year is coming, in addition to offering sacrifices to the kitchen god, we must also offer sacrifices to heaven and earth. Many sacrificial objects come from hunting. These prey are delicious and can make the world a mess. Plus the cold is the end of the year, so it's called the tail tooth. When the Great Cold meets Laba Festival, porridge is naturally sacrificed, so it is the tail tooth, and the full name becomes "When the Great Cold meets Laba, drink porridge as the tail tooth". Until now, the custom of drinking porridge in Laba porridge continues, and the ingredients of Laba porridge are becoming more and more abundant.

It is difficult to meet the year of Laba in the great cold. The time of Laba is fixed, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, but the time of the great cold solar term is not fixed.