Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What is the great cold solar term for?

What is the great cold solar term for?

The great cold needs old cloth and new clothes, making bacon, offering sacrifices to stoves and ending the rich food.

In some areas of China, from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there are many important folk customs, such as taking off old cloth to make bacon, offering sacrifices to stoves and ending sumptuous food. Tail luxury food is also called "making teeth" and "making luxury food". There is a folk custom of "eating tail teeth" after eating luxury food.

In the cold season, we have to rush about for the New Year-catch up with the new year's goods, buy new year's goods, write Spring Festival couplets, prepare all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweep away dust and wipe things, get rid of old cloth, prepare new year's goods, pickle all kinds of sausages and bacon, or cook chicken, duck, fish and other new year's dishes. At the same time, sacrifice ancestors and various gods to pray for good weather in the coming year. In the streets of the old cold season, people often rushed to buy sesame stalks.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. Fighting refers to ugliness; The solar meridian reaches 300; Celebrate on the calendar of 65438+1October 20-2 1 every year. Great cold, like slight cold, is a solar term indicating the degree of cold weather, and great cold refers to extremely cold weather. The great cold solar term is from March 9 to April 9, and the cold wave frequently goes south, which is the coldest season of the year.