What did the ancients do in the cold season?

What the ancients did in the cold season is as follows:

"Eating glutinous rice" is a day of great cold and solar terms, and the ancients are popular to eat food made of glutinous rice. "Drinking porridge" means "drinking 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.

"Tooth-making", also known as "gluttony-making", was originally a ceremony to worship the land father-in-law, from which the so-called "toothache" came. 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.

"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".

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

Great cold and slight cold are solar terms indicating the cold weather. According to the statistics of perennial climate data in China, the coldest period of a year in northern China is 65438+ 10 in mid-June (June 1 1 -20).