What is the difference between the stress in the north and the stress in the south during the severe cold solar terms?

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. It represents the coldest day of the year. Every festival has different customs, and the Great Cold also has its own unique customs. So what are the customs in the south and the north on this day? Let's have a look.

What are the customs of the Great Cold? Are the south and the north the same? The custom of the great cold in the south.

1. Make rice cakes. Guangxi Wuxuan, Guiping and other places have the custom of making rice cakes. The rice cake is made of sticky rice flour as the main material, peanut kernels, white sesame seeds and sugar as seasonings, which are put into a mold shell and cooked at high temperature. It tastes delicious and has the metaphor of "harmony but difference".

2. Eat rice cakes. The rice cake is a kind of cake steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour. It is a custom to eat it in many places in southern China. Rice cakes are red, yellow and white, representing gold and silver. The rice cake is also called "New Year's cake", which means that our work and life are improving year by year.

The Great Cold Custom in Northern China

1. King of the people. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is also the day when folk customs send the Kitchen God. According to folklore, at this time of year, Kitchen God needs God to report this person's good and evil to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish him.

2. Eat jiaozi. China's northern New Year's Eve dinner habitually eats jiaozi, which means to bid farewell to the kitchen god and to "send jiaozi to welcome the rain". When paying tribute, jiaozi should put it squarely on the tribute table.

Cold customs and solar terms often overlap with the end of the year. Therefore, in such a cold solar term, in addition to farming in line with the season, we should also catch up with the Spring Festival ―― catch up with the Spring Festival party, buy Spring Festival, write Spring Festival couplets, prepare all kinds of sacrifices in advance, sweep away the dust, clean up things, prepare the Spring Festival gift box in advance, pickle all kinds of sausages, sausages and bacon, or fry cook the meat dishes. At the same time, sacrifice to various gods and pray for a smooth coming year.

What are the customs of the Great Cold? In fact, the days of severe cold are rather cold, so many people will expect their body and mind to be comfortable, so do you want to warm up first? Then there is no doubt that we should be warm from the heart. Spirit and spirit can make people's body run faster and their basic metabolism faster. In that case, their blood and limbs can be warmed. Otherwise, many people's hands and feet are actually very cold in winter. In the cold season, a big custom is self-cultivation, which not only makes our bodies better and better, but also is very suitable for the elderly.