What is slight cold?

There is a folk proverb: "When it's a slight cold, it's 239, and I'm shivering with cold." Count nine cold days from winter to Sunday, and every nine days count as nine days, "9 1" counts as "99", one * * * counts as 8 1 day, and "nine flowers bloom". At this time, the cold has passed and the weather is warm.

As the saying goes, "it's hot in three days, cold in four or nine days", and the coldest period in a year is "three or nine days". Cold air is cold for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. Just like severe cold, slight summer heat and intense summer heat, it is a solar term indicating temperature change. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

Traditional customs of slight cold in various places

1, Nanjing: eat vegetable rice

During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing.

2. Guangdong: Eat glutinous rice.

Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped onions and mix in rice.

3. Tianjin: Eat soybean sprouts.

In the old days, Tianjin had the custom of eating soybean sprouts. Soybean sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, which are made of Chinese cabbage buds. After winter, cut off the stems and leaves of the cabbage, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about 6 cm from the ground, covered with manure, not ventilated, and eaten crisp and tender after the period.