North-South difference solar terms

As the saying goes, after Laba is the year. This year's Laba is also a coincidence? Great cold? Solar terms, use? Slight cold? It is also a solar term that indicates the weather. Great cold? This day really means extreme cold. However, according to China's long-term meteorological records, there is no severe cold solar term in northern China? Slight cold? The weather is very cold, but for most parts of the south, the coldest time of the year is in the great cold solar term. As soon as the great cold is over, a new cycle begins, which means that winter goes and spring comes.

Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the severe cold is around the Gregorian calendar1October 20th every year. This year, especially the Laba Festival and the Great Cold fell on the same day. Laba encounters severe cold, and it is another year in a blink of an eye. Laba Festival, commonly known as? Rabbah? What was it called in ancient times? Lari? In ancient times, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a bumper harvest. Some places have the custom of drinking Laba porridge. However, in the north and south of our country, people have different habits of celebrating Laba Festival.

Laba is an important day in the north. Beans will be carefully selected in the morning, and beans that are difficult to cook will be soaked in water in advance. Laba porridge is usually cooked with white rice, glutinous rice, millet, chestnuts, red cowpeas, peeled jujube paste and peanuts. Some people also put lilies and lotus seeds in water. Eating Laba porridge has many meanings: warmth, perfection, harmony, auspiciousness, health, cooperation, gratitude, joy (porridge instead of tea), affinity and other beautiful meanings. The north will also eat pickled Laba garlic, which is bright green and looks beautiful, bright and full. There will also be Laba garlic cold aspic, which tastes smooth and sour, very appetizing and very popular. ?

Laba Festival is also celebrated in the south, but it is different from the north. For example, Guangdong, mainly in the Pearl River Delta, is a custom brought by Hakkas in the north, but the materials for making Laba porridge are different. Millet and red dates are used in the north, and glutinous rice, lily and lotus seeds are used in the south.