What is slight cold?

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. There is a folk proverb: slight cold and great cold make ice hockey. Literally, the great cold is greater than the slight cold, but in meteorological records, the slight cold is colder than the great cold, which can be said to be the coldest of the 24 solar terms in the whole year. There is often a saying of "Sanjiu cold", and this "Sanjiu" is just within the slight cold solar terms.

It is called a slight cold rather than a great cold, because solar terms originated in the Yellow River basin. The twenty-four solar terms say, "the cold at the beginning of the month is still small ... and it is half a month heavy", which only lasted until today according to the situation at that time. As soon as the "slight cold" passed, it entered the "three or nine days of ice".

Slight cold three refers to:

1, etc. Yanbei Township. Among migratory birds, geese migrate along the yin and yang, and at this time, the yang has moved, so geese began to migrate north. noteworthy

Yes, the hometown of "Yanbei Township" is actually read as "xiàng", which means "township". ?

2. Wait for the magpies to start nesting. Birds themselves have the ability to understand climate change at the earliest time. By the time they wait, magpies have won the solar term in the coming year, so magpies can

Build a nest with grass and prepare to breed. ?

3, three waiting for the pheasant to start. "It means that pheasants can sing when they are close to April 9th. The pheasant here is a feather.

Pheasant (commonly known as pheasant) is also a male bird. "Pheasant" means "song", which is the courtship sound of pheasant.

Customs of slight cold solar terms:

1, eat vegetable rice

It is the custom of old Nanjing to eat vegetable rice with slight cold. People in Nanjing attach great importance to slight cold. People will cook rice with glutinous rice, ginger, short leg yellow, sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is yin evil, slight cold is the coldest solar term in a year, and it is also the most prosperous period in Yin Qi. The glutinous rice in Nanjing vegetable rice can replenish the middle jiao, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and enhance the human body's ability to resist cold evil; Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung and dispelling cold. In addition, the specialties of Nanjing, such as short leg yellow, sausage and salted duck, are homologous in medicine and food, delicious in taste, and especially warm after eating in winter, which can be comparable to Laba porridge.

Step 2 eat glutinous rice flour

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. "Yanjing Times" records that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste and so on. And dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes for external use. All the above foods are sweet and warm, and have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

The ancients in China called porridge rice the first tonic in the world, and thought that eating porridge could prolong life. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that porridge can "replenish qi and promote fluid production, replenish spleen and stomach, and treat deficiency cold". Zhang Lei's "The Story of Porridge" also said: "Eating a big bowl of porridge every day is empty on an empty stomach, and the grain will be necessary. The tonic is not refined, and it is very soft and greasy, which is in line with the stomach."