What are the characteristics and customs of the great cold solar terms?

1. Climatic characteristics of severe cold solar terms: rain, snow, strong wind and low temperature. During the severe cold solar term, the atmospheric circulation is relatively stable, and the adjustment period of circulation is about 20 days. When this circulation is adjusted, there will often be a wide range of rain and snow weather and strong winds to cool down. In the severe cold season, the average temperature in most parts of southern China is 6℃ to 8℃, which is nearly 65438 0℃ higher than slight cold.

Second, the great cold customs are;

1, "eat glutinous rice", that is, on the day of the great cold solar term, the ancients were popular to eat food made of glutinous rice. ?

2. "binge drinking" refers to 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." .

3, "dust removal", also known as "getting rid of the old" and "dust removal", is a kind of general cleaning: "Every family paints the walls and sweeps away the ominous" to sweep away bad luck; On the contrary, "the twelfth lunar month does not remove dust, and the plague will be recruited in the coming year." Dust removal is generally carried out on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, on the day of "offering sacrifices to the stove". When removing dust, we should avoid words and pay attention to "silence is better than sound"

4. "Sticking the window" means sticking the window with new paper. "Put up windows 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.

5, "urging marriage", at the end of the twelfth lunar month, the gods went to heaven to "report their work". At this time, there is no need to choose a day to get married, and it is the slack season, so the old folk scene is "the countryside is busy getting married."