What did the ancients do in the cold season?

In the cold season, the ancients would drink Laba porridge, clean up and buy new year's goods in stick grilles.

The ancients "ate glutinous rice and drank it" in cold days, that is, they ate food made of glutinous rice and drank as much as possible. Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty also recorded: "La zhe, big festival at the end of the year, official banquet drinking." . Warm your body with food and wine, and also take this solar term to make your family and friends happy together. It's very cold today, and it's also Laba Festival. Every household can cook laba porridge. All kinds of glutinous rice with all kinds of dried fruits and miscellaneous grains are very eye-catching. Steaming a big bowl with a cup of warm rice wine will warm your stomach and make you feel satisfied after drinking. Supplementing qi and blood and nourishing the five internal organs in cold days is also the way for China people to keep in good health.

The ancients will "dust the window" today, which means cleaning, stick grilles. Every household cleans up the dust in the house, cleans up the sundries in the house, sticks new paper on the window, cuts out various auspicious patterns from the red paper and sticks them on the window. There is a folk proverb: "If you don't dust in the twelfth lunar month, you will attract a plague in the coming year." Be silent when cleaning, that is, get rich in silence. Moreover, after cleaning the room, the environment has become better and the mood has become comfortable, and luck will naturally be good. Now that living conditions are good, there are places to buy all kinds of computer-printed window grilles, and people with good skills will still choose to cut window grilles themselves. Because the best life is created by oneself, and the best home is decorated by oneself. People believe that windows represent family luck. If you decorate the windows beautifully, good luck will naturally roll in.

The ancients "took advantage of the market to get married" in the cold, that is, they went to the market to buy new year's goods, buy or attend weddings. Market day is an ordinary day for people. Whether it is a winding path or a flat and wide avenue, people will get up early to go to the market and buy what they need for the Spring Festival. No matter how cold or heavy the snow is, it will not change people's desire to go out shopping. Entering the twelfth month, every day is a good day. Marriage is naturally auspicious, and the days will be prosperous, and the better. There is no need to choose a date for marriage at this time, and it is also the off-season. Taking advantage of the festival of off-year and the excitement of Chinese New Year, it is most appropriate to buy banquets and dowries, so it is also a day when people like to catch up with weddings.