What are the customs and habits of the Great Cold Festival?

1, "eat glutinous rice", that is, on the day of the great cold solar term, the ancients were popular to eat food made of glutinous rice.

2. "Drink porridge", that is, as the saying goes, "drink Laba porridge". The custom of drinking porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month has a long history. This porridge is made of rice, beans, dates, lotus roots, peanuts, medlar, chestnuts, nuts, longan, raisins and walnuts.

3. "Tooth-making", also known as "gluttony", was originally a ceremony to worship the land father-in-law, and the so-called "toothache" came from it. Tooth making pays attention to "head teeth" and "tail teeth". The first tooth is on the second day of February in the lunar calendar, and the tail tooth is on the sixteenth day of December. The whole family sits together and eats the tail tooth.

4. "Dust removal", also known as "getting rid of the old" and "dust removal", is a kind of general cleaning: "Every family paints the walls and sweeps away the ominous" to sweep away bad luck; On the contrary, "the twelfth lunar month does not remove dust, and the plague will be recruited in the coming year." Dust removal is generally carried out on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, on the day of "offering sacrifices to the stove".

5. "Sticking the window" means sticking the window with new paper. "Put up windows for good luck." For the sake of beauty, some people will cut some auspicious patterns and stick them on the windows, so it is also called "stick grilles", which is usually held on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

6. "Steamed offering" is an offering prepared for sacrifice. In the past, cakes, cakes and steamed bread were all steamed with flour.