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What are the customs of Xiaohan?

The folk custom of Xiaohan

1, Laba Festival

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhism and Taoism Festival" and "Daohui". 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.

Step 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.

3. Count the winter of 99-99.

The number nine, also known as winter nine nine, is an ancient folk method to calculate cold weather. The method of counting nine to calculate the cold weather is passed down from mouth to mouth among the people in our country, which has a history and lacks records. As for when it originated, there is no exact information. Count nine songs: "1929 did not move, walked on the ice in 3949, watched willows along the river in 5969, opened the river in 79, swallowed it in 89, and plowed cattle everywhere." "

Meteorological changes of slight cold

The weather characteristics of slight cold are: it gets cold, but it is not cold yet. 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. The climate in south and north of China is quite different.

According to China's long-term meteorological records, the slight cold solar terms in the northern region are colder than the severe cold solar terms; But for most parts of the south, the big cold solar terms are colder than the small ones.

During the slight cold solar term, the East Asian trough developed the strongest and most stable, the Mongolian cold high and Aleutian low also reached the strongest and most stable, and the ridge scale of the westerly trough reached the maximum, which matched the strongest westerly intensity. The cooling process of cold air is frequent in the slight cold season, but few of them reach the cold wave standard.