Solar term past life

Dew condenses into frost, and the chill is getting stronger. The next sentence is white clouds and red leaves. Occasionally, the frost gets thicker and thicker in early autumn, and cicadas are silent for three days.

Brief introduction to the origin of cold dew solar terms

Every year1October 8th or 9th, 10, when the sun reaches 195 degrees, it is cold dew. The seventy-two episodes of this month explain the September Festival. Dew is cold and will condense. Cold dew means that the temperature is lower than that of the white dew, and the dew on the ground is colder and will soon condense into frost. In the cold dew season, Nanling and the vast area to the north have entered autumn, and the northeast and northwest regions have entered or are about to enter winter. In the capital Beijing, you can see the first frost in many years. In addition to the perennial snow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it has generally begun to snow in the northeast and northern Xinjiang.

China ancient cold dew is divided into three stages, one stage is Hongyan guest; Second, the sparrow enters the water and becomes a clam; Three chrysanthemums have yellow flowers. In this solar term, geese move south in a line or herringbone queue; In the cold late autumn, all the birds disappeared. The ancients saw a large number of clams suddenly appearing on the seashore. The stripes and colors of shells were very similar to those of birds, and they thought they were birds. The third stage of chrysanthemum blooming means that chrysanthemum has become common at this time.

Traditional customs of cold dew solar terms

1, eat Chongyang cake

Double Ninth Cake is the representative food of Double Ninth Festival. Because cake is homophonic with height, the ancients thought that everything is high, so climbing to eat cake on the Double Ninth Festival means rising step by step. The production of Chongyang cake in Song Dynasty was very particular. Meng Liang records that this kind of cake is steamed with powdered sugar, with pork, mutton and duck as silk cluster nails, and inserted into Caiqi Yang, hence the name Japanese Double Ninth Festival cake.

There is another kind, which uses five-color rice flour from the Palace Honey Stir-fry Bureau, and is clustered by Caiqi Yang. Cooked chestnut pestle is used as fine powder, mixed with human musk molasses, and kneaded into small cakes, or like five-color shells, all of which are fructose cream, which is the famous lion chestnut cake of that day. When Gan Chun was old, he said that there was an unusual Chongyang food called Chunlan Qiuju, with purple perilla dipped in plum bittern and mixed with cane paste, pear, orange and jade willow. Not only is the cake beautifully made, but the name is also very strange, which is rare in previous lives.

2. Evodia rutaecarpa and chrysanthemum

The custom of inserting dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. The ancients thought that inserting Evodia rutaecarpa into the Double Ninth Festival could take refuge and eliminate disasters, or put it on the arm, or put Cornus officinalis in a sachet and put it on the head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and some places are also worn by men. Ge Hong's Miscellanies of the Western Classics in the Jin Dynasty recorded that Kaunus participated in the Double Ninth Festival.

Besides wearing dogwood, people also wear chrysanthemums. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty, and it was handed down later. The custom of Beijing Double Ninth Festival in Qing Dynasty is to stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to eliminate evil and filth and attract good luck. This is the deformation of the chrysanthemum on the head. In the Song Dynasty, some people cut ribbons into dogwood and chrysanthemum and gave them to each other.