What is the folk custom of the Great Cold?

Cold folk customs include: eating glutinous rice, drinking porridge, making teeth, removing dust, pasting windows and steaming.

1, eat glutinous rice

It was the day of the great cold and solar terms, and the ancients were popular to eat food made of glutinous rice.

Step 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.

Step 3 make teeth

Also known as "making rich food", it was originally a ceremony to worship the land father-in-law. The so-called good meal is called "toothache sacrifice". 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.

Step 4 remove dust

Also known as "getting rid of the old" and "dust removal", it 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. Paste the window

Just paste the window with new paper, "paste the window 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. Steam supply

This is a sacrifice. In the past, cakes, cakes and steamed bread were all steamed with flour.