Brief introduction of slight cold in the twenty-four 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. A slight cold marks the beginning of the coldest day of the year.

Every year, when the sun reaches 285 degrees on the 5th or 6th day of 654381October, it is a slight cold, which, like great cold, slight summer heat, great summer heat and summer heat, is a solar term indicating the temperature change. A slight cold means that the weather is already very cold. The periods of slight cold and severe cold in most parts of China are generally the coldest. After the "slight cold", it is three or nine days of "ice".

In ancient China, slight cold was divided into three stages: "The first stage is to wait for Yanbei Township, the second stage is to wait for magpies to nest, and the third stage is to wait for pheasants to swim". The ancients believed that the geese among migratory birds migrated along the yin and yang, and at this time, the yang had moved, so the geese began to move northward; At this time, magpies can be seen everywhere in the north, feeling the yang and starting to build nests; The third time, the word "pheasant" means singing. When the pheasant approaches April 9, it will feel the growth of Yang and sing.

Local customs of slight cold solar terms

1, Nanjing eats 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 and cooks rice, and the contents of vegetables and rice are not the same.

Useful short-legged yellow vegetables and bacon slices, sausage slices or diced salted duck, and then chop up some ginger and cook with glutinous rice, which is very fragrant and 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.

2. Eat glutinous rice in Guangdong

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.

Step 3 eat laba porridge

Eating Laba porridge is an important folk custom in the "slight cold" solar term in diet. For Laba porridge recorded in Yanjing era, yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste and so on. Boil in water, and externally dye with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes.