What food does the slight cold solar term eat?

In folk customs, Xi 'an area likes to eat soybean sprouts in the mild cold solar terms. Soybean sprouts, also known as Woxin Chinese cabbage, belong to a population of Chinese cabbage. Ancient soybean sprouts are rare new vegetables planted in greenhouses in northern China, cultivated in open fields in southern China and harvested in autumn and winter. Coupled with the limited ancient standards, people will think of eating soybean sprouts to make up for the lack of vegetables and fruits in winter.

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the 24 solar terms, the 5th solar term in winter, the end of the second month of the dry calendar and the beginning of the ugly month. Fighting fingers; The meridian of the sun is 285; It is celebrated every year on June 5-7 of 65438+ 10 in Gregorian calendar. Cold air is cold for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. Like severe cold, mild heat, severe heat and intense heat, it is a solar term indicating temperature change. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

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. 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.

There is a saying in northern China that "slight cold is better than severe cold, which is common but not rare", meaning that the solar terms of slight cold are colder than those of severe cold, which is nothing unusual. Slight cold usually occurs from February 9th to March 9th, which is the coldest time of the year in northern China. After the slight cold, the temperature of heavy cold rose slightly. The coldest in southern China is in April and September, which is colder than in March and September. In April and September, it was the great cold solar term, and the great cold in the southern region was colder than the slight cold.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiaohan.