Great cold in 24 solar terms 3252020.6. 13

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms in the year before and after October 20 of Gregorian calendar 65438+/kloc-0. At this time, the cold wave frequently goes south, which is the cold period of the year in most parts of China. The wind is strong, the temperature is low, and the snow on the ground does not melt, showing a cold scene of ice and snow. There are three stages of severe cold, one is when the chicken begins to nurse, the other is when the bird is seriously ill, and the third is when the abdomen is moist and firm.

Waiting for chickens to start breastfeeding: During the cold season, chickens, as livestock, also felt the breath of spring in advance and began to hatch chickens.

Two-stage stork disease: birds such as eagles are in a state of strong predation ability, hovering in the air to find food to replenish energy to resist the cold.

Three times, water makes the belly firm: in the last five days of the year, the ice in the water has frozen to the center of the water, and it is the strongest and thickest. Children can skate on the river to their heart's content.

Great cold customs: eating Laba porridge, welcoming the New Year in the Great Cold, drinking chicken soup and so on.

Eating Laba porridge: 15 The day after slight cold is severe cold, during which Laba is a very important day for northerners, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with whole grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates and lotus seeds, which is an indispensable staple food for Chinese New Year.

Great cold welcomes the new year: the solar terms of great cold often coincide with the end of the year. People began to be busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, cleaning their rooms and preparing all kinds of new year's goods for the new year-such as catching up with new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets and so on.

Drink chicken soup: In the cold winter, Nanjing people have more stews and soups in their daily diet.

Poetry in the cold season;

The end of the great cold solar terms means that the series of 24 solar terms has been shared.