Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - The meaning of slight cold

The meaning of slight cold

Slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme.

Inventory of proverbs of slight cold solar terms

A slight cold festival, fifteen days, seven or eight days and three or nine days. This proverb means: "Slight Cold Festival" is the 23rd solar term in a year. There are 15 days between the whole slight cold and the severe cold, and the seven or eight days after the slight cold festival will reach "three or nine days"! This is handed down by rural people after years of life experience, which is common sense!

Second, a slight cold is followed by a bad cold, and it lasts year after year. This proverb means: among the 24 solar terms, slight cold is great cold, and great cold is the last solar term, so the great cold will be over after one year, and winter will come and spring will return to the four seasons.

Third, 19 1 snow, pigs and dogs don't eat black. This proverb means that after the winter solstice, nine days will begin to count, nine days will be nine days, and so on. If it snows every few days, next year's harvest will be very good, and even pigs and dogs can't eat moldy and black food. At the same time, this proverb also indicates a good harvest in the coming year.

Slight cold custom

Tan Mei

During the slight cold, the weather was cold, but wintersweet bloomed against the snow. Maybe this flower is open to give people living in seclusion a reason to come out. Red plums are in bud. Choose the best scenic spot with plum blossoms and enjoy it carefully. There is a lonely and elegant fragrance in your nose, and your mind will be refreshed and excited.

Nanjing: Eat vegetable rice.

Speaking of slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks and eats. The content of vegetable rice is different. Mix the short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, chop some ginger and cook with glutinous rice. It's delicious.