What did the ancients do in the Great Cold Festival?

What did the ancients do in the cold season? The answer is to collect ice, eat glutinous rice, drink, do teeth, sweep dust, paste windows, taste bacon, catch a wedding, make use of the market, take a bath and paste New Year's red.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. At this time, the cold wave frequently goes south, which is the coldest season of the year. In ancient times, there was no ice-making technology. In ancient times, wealthy families and royal families had special ice rooms to store ice cubes. When it freezes in the cold river, they ordered people to collect ice cubes for summer use. In hot summer, ice cubes are needed to cool off the heat.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. Fighting refers to ugliness; The solar meridian reaches 300; Celebrate on the calendar of 65438+1October 20-2 1 every year. Great cold, like slight cold, is a solar term indicating the degree of cold weather, and great cold refers to extremely cold weather. The great cold solar term is from March 9 to April 9, and the cold wave frequently goes south, which is the coldest season of the year.

The great cold comes at the end of the year, winter goes to spring, and after the great cold, a new cycle begins. In some parts of China, during the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs, such as taking off old cloth to make bacon, offering sacrifices to stoves and ending sumptuous food.

Tail luxury food is also called "making teeth" and "making luxury food". There is a folk custom of "eating tail teeth" after eating luxury food. The popular "annual meeting" at the end of the year is the legacy of "Wei gluttonous feast".