What are the characteristics and customs of the slight cold solar terms?

The weather of slight cold is characterized by getting colder and colder, but it is not cold yet. The phenological characteristics of the slight cold solar term are "in Yanbei Township, magpies began to nest and pheasants began to pheasant".

The custom of slight cold:

1, La Worship's Sacrifice to the Hundred Gods: Blessing the Five Grains to Prosper La Worship, a traditional folk sacrifice culture with a long history. The ancients hunted in the twelfth lunar month and sacrificed the captured animals to their ancestors.

According to "Custom Pass", "Wax hunters". Because hunting animals sacrifices ancestors, or catching wax, new ones are handed over, and hunting sacrifices are also rewarded. " It can be seen that "wax" means hunting, offering sacrifices with wild animals or poultry raised by oneself, first offering sacrifices to ancestors and then offering sacrifices to the gods.

2. Eat glutinous rice: In Guangzhou, Han Xiao wants to eat glutinous rice in the morning. Glutinous rice is not just boiled glutinous rice. It will be served with fried "bacon" (commonly known as sausage and bacon in Guangdong), coriander, chopped green onion and other materials, which tastes particularly fragrant.

"Leaving fragrance" is essential for cooking 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 difference between north and south of slight cold:

According to the statistics of climate data, the coldest period of a year in most parts of northern China is the middle of June (10-20) of Gregorian calendar every year. The annual slight cold solar term starts from 65438+1October 5-7, one solar term is about 15 days, and the middle section is just within the slight cold solar term; So for most parts of the north, slight cold is indeed colder than severe cold.

But for most parts of the south, it is the coldest in the great cold solar terms; The severe cold solar term generally starts from 65438+1October 20th (65438+1late October), which is the coldest time of the year in the south.