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What will happen to the great cold?

Things to do in the cold:

1, eat laba porridge

Laba Festival is an important popular festival in northern China. The custom of this festival is to eat Laba porridge. Laba porridge, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors porridge", "Buddha porridge" and "everyone's meal", is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients.

Step 2 cook glutinous rice

There is a saying in Lingnan folk proverb: "Slight cold and severe cold, cold without wind." In some parts of China, severe cold is not as good as slight cold, but in most years and some coastal areas, the lowest temperature in the whole year appears in severe cold solar terms. In the extremely cold days of the traditional solar terms, Guangdong folk formed the custom of eating glutinous rice.

Step 3 Paste the window

Just paste the window with new paper, "paste the window for good luck." For the sake of beauty, some people will cut some auspicious patterns and stick them on the windows, so it is also called "stick grilles", which is usually held on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Agricultural activities:

In the severe cold season, it is necessary to master the change law of agricultural production in cold and warm conditions, and plant crops reasonably according to different years, different geographical locations and topographic conditions to avoid unnecessary losses.

After the winter solstice, cold air frequently goes south, the temperature continues to drop, and the solar term temperature in slight cold and severe cold is minimized. In the northern region, the fields were covered with snow and ice during this period, and there was no farm work. The fields in the south are not frozen and can be used for agricultural activities.