Han Xiao ding dang

When there is a slight chill in the jingle, it is at 239, shivering with cold.

In the slight cold season, the direct point of the sun is still in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere is still in a state of loss. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so the temperature in the northern hemisphere continues to decrease. After the winter solstice, the cold air frequently goes south, and the temperature continues to drop, and the temperature drops to the lowest during the slight cold and severe cold in a year. Folk proverb-it's February 239 of slight cold, shivering with cold, which shows the cold degree of slight cold solar terms.

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the 24 solar terms, the 5th solar term in winter, the end of the second month of the dry calendar and the beginning of the ugly month. The meridian of the sun is 285 degrees, and the festival is held from 5 to 7 October in 654381Gregorian calendar every year. Cold air is cold for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. Like severe cold, mild summer heat, severe summer heat and intense summer heat, it is a solar term indicating temperature change. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

traditional custom

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also called Magic Weapon Festival, Buddhism and Taoism Festival, Taoism Society and so on. Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba Festival is mainly popular in northern China, and the festival custom is to drink Laba porridge. In Guangzhou, Han Xiao wants to eat glutinous rice in the morning. Glutinous rice is not only as simple as boiled glutinous rice, but also served with fried bacon, coriander, chopped green onion and other materials, which tastes particularly fragrant.

Bacon is essential for making glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and cold-resistant. On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky, and rice smells heavy. It needs some oil to mix the flavor. The number nine, also known as winter nine nine, is an ancient folk method to calculate cold weather. The method of counting cold weather with nine has been passed down from mouth to mouth in China, which has a history and lacks records. As for the origin, there is no exact information.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Slight Cold