What do people do in the cold season?

According to the custom of China, especially in rural areas, people are busy going to old cloth and new ones to pickle new year's vegetables and prepare new year's goods every cold festival. The severe cold solar terms often coincide with the end of the year.

Therefore, in this solar term, in addition to doing farm work in line with the solar term, we have to rush about for the New Year-catching up on new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, sweeping the dust, uncovering old cloth to make new year's goods, curing various sausages and bacon, or frying chicken, duck, fish and other new year's dishes.

At the same time, the diet with a bad cold should follow the principle of protecting yin and suppressing yang. Diet should be bitter in Xian Yi, nourishing the heart and strengthening the kidney. Do not eat anything sticky and cold, and do not eat hot food to avoid damaging the yang of the spleen and stomach. The taste of food can be moderately strong, with a certain amount of fat and a certain amount of heat. In addition, eat more yellow-green vegetables, such as carrots, rape and spinach.

In addition, because the severe cold coincides with the Spring Festival, the average family will prepare rich food for the Spring Festival. At this time, attention should be paid to avoiding hunger and satiety disorders. At the same time, you can eat more foods with spleen-invigorating and food-resolving effects, such as hawthorn and grapefruit, and you can also drink more millet porridge and spleen-invigorating and dampness-removing porridge for conditioning.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms in China. After the great cold, a new year's solar cycle is ushered in.

People often say that "severe cold happens every year, not in March and September, but in April and September", which means it is very cold in the severe cold season. In fact, the great cold is only relative to the slight cold, and both are solar terms that characterize the degree of cold weather. In some areas, the great cold temperature is not lower than the slight cold temperature, and the great cold only shows a trend that the ancients viewed the cold climate change.

"Great cold is the middle, and the upper form is slight cold, so it is called Great Cold ... extremely cold, so it is called Great Cold." At this time, the cold wave frequently goes south, which is the coldest period of the year in most parts of China. The wind is very strong and the temperature is very low. The snow on the ground has not melted, showing a cold scene of ice and snow.