What do southerners cook in the mild cold season?

Laba porridge, chicken soup and vegetable rice are all traditional foods that southerners eat during the Little Cold Festival. Guangzhou tradition is that Xiaohan eats glutinous rice in the morning. 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 onions and mix in rice. Glutinous rice means warm, and it is warm from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Because the sugar content of glutinous rice is higher than that of rice, it feels warm all over after eating, which is conducive to driving out the cold.

What does slight cold mean?

Slight cold solar term, 1: 00 p.m. 14: 00 p.m., the sun reaches 285 degrees. According to the method of judging solar terms by the ancient Big Dipper, the bucket refers to five as slight cold. The ancients thought that the accumulation of cold air 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 term eat?

1, eat vegetable rice

Vegetable rice is not rice. When it's a slight cold, some places will cook and 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 salted duck, ginger, glutinous rice, etc. It is very fragrant and delicious.

2. Gypsum formula

The slight cold season is also the busiest time for Chinese medicine shops. Generally, I have eaten almost all the creams cooked in winter. At this time, some people will cook more and eat it before and after the Spring Festival. This ointment 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, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production. The ancients said that "porridge rice is the best supplement in the world" and that eating porridge can prolong life.

The custom of slight cold solar terms

1, plum blossom exploration

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

Step 2 perform on ice

Slight cold is the coldest time of the year. At this time, the weather in the south and the north is very cold. At this time, the river was frozen and thick, and I walked on the ice with a sled.

3. La Worship

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