Characteristics of slight cold season in the custom of slight cold solar terms

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term in 24 solar terms, the end of the second month of the Ganzhi calendar and the beginning of the ugly month. The time is between 65438 and1October 5-7 in Gregorian calendar, and the sun is located at 285 degrees of the yellow meridian. For China, it's around March 9th, and the slight cold marks the beginning of the coldest day of the year. Twenty-four solar terms: "December Festival, the cold at the beginning of the month is still small, so the cloudy day is half a month."

Temperature characteristics:

In the mild cold season, the average temperature in Beijing is generally around -5℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is below-15℃. In Northeast China, the average temperature at this time is around -30℃, the extreme minimum temperature can be as low as -50℃, and the average maximum temperature in the afternoon is only -20℃. It's a world of ice sculptures and jade carvings. The average temperature in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, the area north of 45 N in Xinjiang, the northern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is around -20℃, and the average temperature in the area near 40 N west of Hetao is around-10℃, which is a scene of severe winter. The average temperature along the Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains is about 0℃, and there is no seasonal frozen soil in the south of this line, and there is no obvious wintering period for winter crops. At this time, the average temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is generally around 5℃. Although the field is still full of vitality, cold air sometimes goes south, causing certain harm.

Solar term phenology:

Yanbei Township: Township means guide. When the sun is shining, the geese will avoid the heat and return. Today, they will fly to the north of the town. When spring begins, the birds will be angry.

Magpies began to build nests: magpies, magpies also; At the gate of the nest, every time it's too old, it starts to Tianyuan from the winter solstice, and the second sun has won the solar terms in the coming year. Magpies can make nests and know what to do.

Pheasant: Pheasant, civilized bird, sunny bird; Ye, male and female sing together, suddenly feeling the sun and the moon.

Solar terms custom:

1, Nanjing: eat vegetable rice

In ancient times, Nanjing people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and now people can only find some traces in their lives.

During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge.

The slight cold season is also the busiest time for old Chinese medicine practitioners and Chinese pharmacy. Generally, I have eaten almost all the paste cooked in winter. At this time, some people will cook more and eat it before and after the Spring Festival.

Residents' daily diet is also dominated by warm foods, such as mutton and dog meat, among which mutton soup is the most common, and some restaurants also provide angelica and ginger mutton soup. In recent years, some traditional winter mutton dishes have reappeared on the dining table, reappearing the cold winter eating customs in Nanjing.

As the saying goes, "a slight cold is cold, and it turns into a hockey." Nanjing people have a set of regional physical exercise methods in the slight cold season, such as skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, rolling iron rings, squeezing oil residue (squeezing walls), fighting cocks (propping up on one foot and fighting independently) and so on. If it snows, you will cheer, have a snowball fight and make a snowman. You will soon be warm and your blood vessels will be unobstructed.

2. Guangdong: Eat glutinous rice.

Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped onions and mix in rice.