What are the characteristics and customs of the slight cold solar terms?

1 and the characteristics of slight cold solar terms

It is slightly cold, and the sun reaches 285 degrees of the Yellow Meridian, and the festival is celebrated on June 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The weather characteristics of slight cold are: it gets cold, but it is not cold yet. As the saying goes, "the cold is in March 9th", and because the "March 9th" in the middle of winter is basically within the solar terms of slight cold, there is a saying that "slight cold is better than great cold".

As for slight cold and severe cold, which is colder? There is no clear answer to this question. Statistics of historical data show that the situation is different in different places and different years. Generally speaking, the average minimum temperature of severe cold solar terms in the north is lower than that of slight cold solar terms. The south is the opposite.

During the slight cold season, most parts of China have entered a severe cold period, with frozen soil and rivers frozen. In addition, the cold air in the north continues to go south and the weather is cold. People call it "counting nine cold days" Although it is not as cold in the south of our country as in the north, the temperature has dropped obviously. The coldest time in the south is slight cold, between rain and fright. It is dry and cold when it is a little cold, and it is wet and cold after the rain.

In the south of China, winter is very warm. The middle of winter is 1 month, with frost and snow attacking and often freezing. The lowest temperature is about-10℃. The lowest temperature in northern South China is rarely below MINUS 5℃, and the low temperature below 0℃ in southern South China is even rarer. The coldest area in the middle of winter in China is the northern part of Heilongjiang, and the lowest temperature can reach about MINUS 40℃. It's freezing, dripping into ice. The low-altitude valley is the warmest place in the middle of winter in most parts of southern China. The average temperature in 65438+ 10 is around 12℃, and only a few teenagers may have a low temperature below 0℃. In addition, the inversion effect is very significant, so tropical fruits such as bananas and mangoes can grow well.

The average temperature during the slight cold in Beijing is generally around -5℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is below-15℃. At this time, the average temperature in Northeast China is around -30℃, the extreme minimum temperature can be as low as -50℃, and the average maximum temperature in the afternoon is only -20℃. The average temperature in the area north of 45 N in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang and the northern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is around -20℃, and the average temperature in the area near 40 N in the west of Hetao is around-10℃. The average temperature along the Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains is about 0℃, and there is no seasonal frozen soil in the south of this line, and there is no obvious wintering period for winter crops. At this time, the average temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is generally around 5℃. Although the field is still full of vitality, cold air sometimes goes south, causing certain harm.

2. The custom of slight cold solar terms

(1) Eat vegetable rice

During the slight cold season, in some places in Jiangsu, many families will cook "vegetable rice". The content of vegetable rice is different. It is cooked with short-legged yellow, green vegetables and sliced bacon, sausage or salted duck, and then chopped with some ginger and glutinous rice. Very delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be called "Nanjing vegetable rice" and can even be compared with Laba porridge.

(2) Eat glutinous rice

During the slight cold, some areas in Guangdong also cook for the holidays, but instead of vegetables, they cook glutinous rice. However, eating glutinous rice on holidays is not just as simple as cooking glutinous rice. Will add fried "bacon" (Cantonese collectively refer to sausage and bacon as "bacon"), coriander, chopped green onion and other raw materials, which tastes very fragrant. "Waxy" is essential for cooking glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and keeps out the cold; On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky and rice tastes heavy, so it needs to be mixed with some oil to taste fragrant.

(3) Eat soybean sprouts

According to "Miscellanies of Jinmen", there was a custom of eating soybean sprouts in Tianjin in the old days. Soybean sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, which are made of Chinese cabbage buds. In winter to the future, cut off the stems and leaves of cabbage, leaving only the heart of cabbage, about 6 cm from the ground, covered with manure, airtight. After half a month, it was crisp and tender. At that time, the conditions were limited, and people would think of some ways to make up for the lack of potassium in winter vegetables. Now people's living standards have improved, and all kinds of vegetables and meat are available all year round. They are no longer worried about the shortage of vegetables in winter as they used to be.

(4) Draw a picture and count to nine.

The slight cold solar term finally came from the Yellow River basin. It is said that in the early years, every farmer in the Yellow River valley used the "Nine-Nine Cold Map" to keep out the cold and keep fit.

(5) plum blossom exploration

At this time, wintersweet is in full bloom and red berries are in bud. Choose the best scenery with plum blossoms and enjoy it carefully. There is a lonely and elegant fragrance in the nose, and the mind will be fresh and excited.

(6) ice performance

In the southern provinces of China, people complain that the ice age after winter is very long, starting from 1 1 month and ending in April of the following year.

(7) La Worship

"Slight cold" is the solar term of the twelfth lunar month. Because the ancients held a La Worship to worship the gods in December, the December in which La Worship lived was called the twelfth lunar month.

(8) Physical exercise

As the saying goes, "a slight cold makes an ice ball." In many places, when it coincides with the slight cold solar term, local physical exercises with regional characteristics will be adopted to celebrate the festival, such as skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, rolling iron rings, squeezing oil and slag (squeezing walls) and fighting cocks (one foot up, one foot independent and fighting with each other). If it snows, there will be more programs. Have a snowball fight and make a snowman. It will soon be warm and the blood will be smooth.