Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Knowing the slight cold at the end of the year, the meaning of Chinese New Year is around the stove.

Knowing the slight cold at the end of the year, the meaning of Chinese New Year is around the stove.

Knowing that the slight cold is at the end of the year, and the meaning of the New Year in the words of the furnace is this:

It is a slight cold all year round, and everyone is looking forward to the New Year around the tea stove.

A little knowledge about slight cold:

1, slight cold is characterized by getting colder and colder, but it is not cold yet. The "March 9th" in the middle of winter is basically within this solar term, so there is a saying that "slight cold is better than severe cold". This is because on the solstice of last winter, the surface received the least sunlight and heat, but the heat in the deep soil supplemented this, so it was not the coldest time of the year.

After the winter solstice, around March 9, the heat in the deep soil was exhausted. Even though the sun and heat increased slightly, they still could not make ends meet, so the lowest temperature in the whole year appeared.

2. "slight cold" is the solar term of the twelfth lunar month. Because the ancients held a La Worship to worship the gods in December, the December in which La Worship lived was called the twelfth lunar month. The wooden meaning of wax is "connection", which means the handover of the old and the new.

3. Laba is generally between slight cold and great cold. Speaking of slight cold, it means that the new year is coming.

On Laba Festival, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge in both north and south. According to legend, this custom originated from Buddhist temples.

On one occasion, Shi Muni fainted to the ground because of hunger in his practice, and was given wild fruit by a kind shepherdess to glutinous rice porridge to survive. This day is the eighth day of December, and Buddhists cook porridge for the Buddha. The porridge cooked on this day is called Laba porridge, and Laba becomes "Buddha Enlightenment Day". After it spread to the people, it has spread to this day.