What are the customs of solar terms in the Great Cold?

The Great Cold is the last solar term of the year, and it also catches up with the arrival of the end of the year, so some folk activities at this time are very interesting.

1. Eating glutinous rice is a custom in southern China. Although this custom sounds simple, it contains the life experience accumulated by predecessors in life. Because it is freezing in the cold, glutinous rice is a very high-calorie food and has a good cold-proof effect.

2. Drink chicken soup, stew hooves, cook soup and eat cold solar terms until around September of the lunar calendar. Many families in Nanjing have never forgotten the traditional diet custom of "19 1 chicken". To be a chicken, you must use an old hen, or stew it alone, or add ginseng, medlar and black fungus. Drinking chicken soup in cold winter is a pleasure. However, stewed hooves with sauerkraut have more Nanjing characteristics, which are not found in other places. Pickles are delicious when it snows lightly. Hooves have bones and flesh, fat and thin, fat but not greasy, and rich in nutrition. Sauerkraut hoof flower is a combination of meat and vegetable, with fresh meat and coriander and rich nutrition, which meets the requirements of scientific diet and is very convenient to make at home. In the twelfth lunar month, old Nanjing still likes to cook soup. Soups and vegetables can be seen everywhere, and their practices are also different. For example, the soup in the north tends to be thick, the soup in the south tends to be light and delicate, while the soup in Nanjing takes the long taste of the north and the south, which is neither too thick nor light, but also fresh or sweet. Another reason why Nanjing people like to drink soup in winter is that the raw materials are simple, complicated and simple, expensive and despicable. Minced meat, tofu, yam, fungus, sweet potato, mustard tuber, etc. You can make a pot of hot soup, add some coriander and white pepper to make you feel warm.

3. During the great cold, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves. It is said that the Kitchen God is the God that the Jade Emperor usually sends to every household to supervise people's good and evil. At the end of each year, he will return to the Heavenly Palace to report the people's feelings to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish him. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the kitchen god statue; The last three of them are preparing materials for the mount of the chef.

When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should also melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor The commonly used kitchen god couplets usually write words such as "Heaven speaks well, returning to the palace is auspicious" and "Heaven speaks well, and the lower bound is safe". In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will also spend the New Year with the gods on earth, and there will be ceremonies of "receiving the kitchen" and "receiving the gods" on that day. So as the saying goes, "Go on the 23rd and come on the 15th of the first month". At the booth selling New Year pictures at the end of the year, there is also a portrait of Kitchen God for sale, which is convenient for posting at the ceremony of "taking over the kitchen". The kitchen god in the image is a handsome guy, so there is a saying in northern China that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice the kitchen stove", which means that men and women don't give and receive. In some places, there is no such thing as a kitchen god and grandma kitchen king.

4. It often coincides with the end of the year. Therefore, in this atmosphere, in addition to doing farm work according to the solar terms, we are also busy with the Chinese New Year-catching new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing all kinds of sacrifices, sweeping away the dust and selling things, removing the old and welcoming the new, curing all kinds of sausages and bacon, or frying and cooking new year's dishes such as chicken, duck and fish. In addition, sacrifice ancestors and various gods to pray for good weather in the coming year. In the past, people often snapped up sesame stems in the street in the cold season because "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher." On New Year's Eve, people scatter sesame stalks on the way outside for children to crush, which is homophonic for "stepping on the old". At the same time, the homonym of "smash" and "old" means "peace in the new year", which is a good omen for the new year. This also makes the festive atmosphere in the Dahanma area more intense.

Another reason is that the raw materials are simple, complex and simple, and valuable. Minced meat, tofu, yam, fungus, sweet potato, mustard tuber, etc. You can make it all into hot soup, with some coriander and some white pepper, so you can eat it all warm.