Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Answer the question, chicken.

Answer the question, chicken.

Chickens test you. Which of the following poems describes the slight cold as follows:

"Magpies build new nests" comes from the poem "Twenty-four Qi, Slight Cold December Festival" written by Yuan Zhen in Tang Dynasty. Magpies feel the arrival of the sun be the spirit and begin to nest and reproduce.

There is a folk saying: "A slight cold is better than a severe cold", which means that the sun's qi rises during a severe cold, but there is no slight cold. In other words, in the 24 solar terms, slight cold is the coldest.

Magpie is one of the representatives. Sensing the arrival of Yang, they began to nest and breed. Magpies are clever birds. They will choose high treetops as nesting places and carefully build warm homes with branches, grass leaves and other materials. When magpies are busy building nests, their cheerful chirping echoes in the cold air, bringing people a little warmth and hope.

Characteristics and customs of slight cold solar terms

One of the characteristics of the slight cold solar terms is the cold weather. With the deepening of winter, the temperature gradually drops, and cold weather begins to dominate. People need to strengthen warm-keeping measures and put on heavy clothes to resist the cold. At this time, cold waves and cold air frequently hit, which brought some inconvenience to people's lives.

The second characteristic of the slight cold solar term is that there are relatively few farming activities. Due to the cold weather, most of the crops in the farmland have been harvested and the land has entered a fallow period. Farmers have begun to renovate farmland and maintain farm tools to prepare for next year's spring ploughing. At the same time, they will also use this time to learn and exchange agricultural techniques to improve the yield and quality of crops.

The third feature of the slight cold solar term is some special customs and habits. In northern China, people have the custom of eating jiaozi. Jiaozi is a traditional winter food. Because it is shaped like an ingot, it is considered to bring wealth and good luck. People usually get together with their families on the day of slight cold, pack jiaozi together and taste delicious jiaozi, which means that there will be good luck and good harvest in the new year.