What are the customs of the great cold solar terms?

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. It is called the Great Cold every year when the sun reaches 300+0 on June 20-265438 in the Gregorian calendar. So, what are the customs of the Great Cold Festival? What does it mean to eat rice cakes in cold weather? Many friends want to know the answer to this question. Let's have a quick look.

What are the customs of the great cold solar terms?

Steamed glutinous rice

There is a saying in Lingnan folk proverb: slight cold and severe cold, no wind and no cold. In the extremely cold days of the traditional solar terms, Guangdong folk formed the custom of eating glutinous rice. Nowadays, in Guangdong, it is common to see such a scene: before the great cold comes, every household cooks a pot of fragrant glutinous rice and mixes it with bacon, dried shrimps, dried squid and mushrooms to welcome the coldest day in the traditional solar terms. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, and has the effect of keeping out the cold and nourishing. Anqing, Anhui has the custom of frying spring rolls in cold weather.

Boiled lard residue

Rolling lard residue is a game for children to keep warm in winter. Gather more than a dozen children, divide them into two groups on average, sit back to back with each other, and push hard to push back the other side to win. This game is usually played on a bench or on a big threshold. Children don't feel cold after sweating after playing games.

Great cold welcomes the new year.

After the great cold, it is another year, and the solar terms of the great cold often coincide with the end of the year. The great cold itself has a strong flavor of the year. Therefore, in this solar term, besides doing farm work in accordance with the solar term, people are busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, sweeping dust and wiping things, preparing rich and varied new year's goods for the new year, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweeping dust and wiping things, uncovering old cloth to prepare new year's goods, curing all kinds of sausages and bacon, or frying and cooking chicken, duck and fish.

The implication of eating rice cakes in cold weather

Eating rice cakes in Beijing is also called eating cold-dispelling cakes. Cold-dispelling cake is a kind of rice cake. Glutinous rice not only has higher sugar content than rice, but also makes the whole body feel warm after eating, which has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Moreover, ordinary people choose to eat rice cakes in this cold day, which also means New Year's Eve, good luck, peace every year, and promotion step by step. Therefore, in the custom of old Beijing, when it is cold, the whole family eats rice cakes separately, which not only has auspicious taste, but also can dispel the chill, so it is called cold-dispelling cake.