Why do you want to eat Laba porridge in Xiaohan solar terms?

Eating Laba porridge can keep warm on the one hand, and add warmth and joy to the festival on the other.

Drink Laba porridge: Drinking Laba porridge is one of the important contents in the custom of slight cold. Laba porridge is cooked with millet, cowpea, adzuki bean, mung bean, jujube, sticky yellow rice, rice and glutinous rice. Because Laba represents slight cold, drinking Laba porridge also symbolizes that the solar term of slight cold is coming to an end. Drinking Laba porridge can keep warm on the one hand, and it can also be used on the other.

Drink soybean sprouts: One of the customs of slight cold is to drink soybean sprouts, which is an ancient traditional custom in Tianjin. After the slight cold solar term, people will cut off the buds of Chinese cabbage, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, then cover it with manure and eat it in a closed state for half a month to supplement the shortage of vegetables in winter. Modern people's living standards have improved, and all kinds of vegetables and meats have become rich and varied. Vegetables have become an indispensable part of people's daily diet.

North-south difference

According to the statistics of climatic data, the coldest time in most parts of northern China is June 5438+1mid-October (June 5438+00-20); The annual slight cold solar term starts from 65438+1October 5-7, one solar term is about 15 days, and the middle section is just within the slight cold solar term; Therefore, for most parts of the north, the slight cold is indeed colder than the great cold, but for most parts of the south, it is the coldest of the great cold solar terms; The severe cold solar term generally starts from 65438+1October 20th (65438+1late October), which is the coldest time of the year in the south.

The slight cold in northern China is colder than the severe cold, because there is relatively little "residual heat" on the surface, which has been released by the slight cold. At this time, the days are short and the nights are long, and the cold air is powerful, which minimizes the temperature. In the great cold, the sun's light and heat increased slightly, so the temperature also increased slightly.