What did the ancients do during the Great Cold Festival?

In ancient times, there was no ice-making technology. In ancient times, wealthy families and royal families had special ice rooms to store ice cubes. When it freezes in the cold river, they ordered people to collect ice cubes for summer use. In hot summer, ice cubes are needed to cool off the heat. In the cold, the temperature is very low. In the past, people took out ice and stored it for use in summer. In addition, An Deming, deputy director of the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences and vice chairman of China Folk Writers Association, said that the Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms, which is close to the Lunar New Year, and there is also a saying that "the Great Cold welcomes the New Year".

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Customs in cold season

"Eating glutinous rice" is a day of great cold and solar terms, and the ancients are popular to eat food made of glutinous rice.

"binge drinking" means letting go of feasting and drinking to the fullest. Cai Yong's "Arbitrariness" in the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Those who wax, have a big sacrifice at the end of the year, and the official banquet drinks." .

"Tooth-making", also known as "gluttony making", was originally a ritual of offering sacrifices to landlords, from which the so-called "having a rare tooth" came.