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What food is good to eat in the slight cold season?

Nanjing: Eat vegetable rice.

In ancient times, Nanjing people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and now people can only find some traces in their lives. During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge.

2. Guangdong: Eat glutinous rice.

Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han 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.

3. North: Ice Opera.

After the slight cold, the northern provinces of China complained that the ice age was very long, from 1 1 month to the following April. Between spring and winter, the river is frozen and thick, and people walk on the ice with sleds. The sled is pulled by a horse, a dog or a rider, who holds a wooden pole and pushes it forward like a gondola. In areas with extremely thick ice surface, most of them have ice beds for pedestrians to play with, and some even race on the ice with skates, which was called ice show in ancient times.

4. Slight cold is the 23rd solar term in 24 solar terms, the 5th solar term in winter, the end of calendar month and the beginning of ugly month. Fighting fingers; The meridian of the sun is 285; It is celebrated from June 5 to 7 in the Gregorian calendar. Cold air is cold for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. Like severe cold, mild heat, severe heat and intense heat, it is a solar term indicating temperature change. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

After the winter solstice, the cold air frequently goes south, and the temperature continues to decrease, and the temperature drops to the lowest during the slight cold and severe cold in a year. There is a folk saying that "it's 239 when it's cold, and it's shivering with cold", which shows the cold degree of solar terms. In the slight cold season, the direct point of the sun is still in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere is still in a state of loss. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so the temperature in the northern hemisphere continues to decrease.

6. According to the long-term meteorological records in China, the slight cold solar terms are colder than the severe cold solar terms in the north, and there is a saying in the north that "slight cold is better than severe cold"; However, for most parts of the south, the lowest temperature in the whole year will still appear in the great cold solar terms.