Beginning of winter solar terms custom activities

The custom activities of the Sun Festival in beginning of winter include heating the stove, frying incense, making fertilizer, eating mutton and repairing farm tools. Details are as follows:

1, heater meeting

After the first frost, the cold is already heavy, so the furnace opening date is generally in the early October of the lunar calendar. Generally, in Peiping, a furnace is set up to heat the kang on the first day of October, which is called the furnace opening festival, and the heater is not removed until the first day of February of the following year. The heater is made of a refractory mineral, which is whiter, lighter, warmer and stronger than ettringite. Later, the heater was made of thin iron.

2. Fried food.

Vanilla is an aromatic grass. With a wave of your sleeve on the grass, it will give off fragrance and can be sewn into sachets to wear.

Step 3 make fertilizer

All kinds of plants, except those growing in swamps, mostly rely on their roots to absorb nutrients from tucheng to maintain their lives. In Shan Ye, where there is no one all year round, the trees are particularly lush and full of vitality. It is by the litter of grass and trees that fertilizer is formed over time. In winter, flowers and trees wither, and there are gardens near the mountains or at home, and there are dead branches and leaves everywhere, which is the best time for farmers to make compost.

Step 4 eat mutton

In China, besides sleeping in the Great Wall, in Inner Mongolia and Tibet, people usually eat mutton in late autumn in beginning of spring. For example, in Changxing, Zhejiang Province, shops have set up stalls to slaughter sheep for sale in August of the lunar calendar. There is a folk saying: on the first day of the first month, you should manage sheep and stop selling them after New Year's Eve. In Taihu Lake basin, sheep are abundant, and mutton is also a seasonal thing in winter.

Step 5 repair farm tools

In the dead of winter, after the busy farming, farmers should check and repair all farm tools in their leisure time. If it is found to be damaged or unusable, it should be repaired or added immediately, so as not to delay the farming season next spring. In the Book of Rites, there is a month in winter, which means "ordering farmers to put down their farming, recruit soldiers and have farm tools".