What does it mean that slight cold is better than a cold?

"Slight cold is better than severe cold" means that in most parts of China, slight cold is the lowest temperature solar term in a year.

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term in 24 solar terms and the 5th solar term in winter. Every year, from the 5th to 7th day of 654381October (around the middle and late February of the lunar calendar/kloc-0), when the sun reaches 285 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is a slight cold solar term.

There is a strange saying that "a slight cold is worse than a heavy cold." It means that in most parts of China, slight cold is the lowest solar term in a year. This statement is also confirmed by contemporary meteorological data, which show that in most years, the temperature of slight cold is lower than that of great cold.

The custom of slight cold

1, Laba Festival

That is, December 8 of the lunar calendar every year, also known as "magic weapon festival", "Buddhist enlightenment festival" and "enlightenment meeting" Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba Festival is mainly popular in northern China, and the festival custom is to drink Laba porridge.

Step 2 eat glutinous rice

In Guangzhou, Han Xiao wants to eat glutinous rice in the morning. Glutinous rice is not just boiled glutinous rice. It will be served with fried "bacon" (commonly known as sausage and bacon in Guangdong), coriander, chopped green onion and other materials, which tastes particularly fragrant. "Leaving fragrance" is essential for cooking glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and cold-resistant; On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky, and rice smells heavy. It needs some oil to mix the flavor.

3. Count the winter of 99-99.

The number nine, also known as winter nine nine, is an ancient folk method to calculate cold weather. The method of counting nine to calculate the cold weather is passed down from mouth to mouth among the people in our country, which has a history and lacks records. As for when it originated, there is no exact information. Count nine songs: "1929 did not move, walked on the ice in 3949, watched willows along the river in 5969, opened the river in 79, swallowed it in 89, and plowed cattle everywhere." "