Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What does the great cold mean? The explanation of the great cold.

What does the great cold mean? The explanation of the great cold.

1, cold is extremely cold, and the weather is very cold. Great cold is the end of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is also the season when winter is coming to an end. You can already vaguely feel the signs of spring coming back. As soon as the Great Cold passed the New Year's solar terms, it came again. As the saying goes, winter goes and spring comes. At this time, people are busy removing old decorations, pickling new year's dishes, preparing new year's goods and various sacrificial supplies, cleaning dust and cleaning things.

2. The great cold is at the end of the year, winter goes to spring, and as soon as the great cold is over, a new cycle begins. In some parts of China, during the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs, such as taking off old cloth to make bacon, offering sacrifices to stoves and ending sumptuous food. Tail luxury food is also called "making teeth" and "making luxury food". There is a folk custom of "eating tail teeth" after eating luxury food.