Cold folk customs

Cold folk customs: drinking porridge, steaming, eating glutinous rice, dedusting, pasting windows, etc.

1, drink porridge

"Drinking porridge" means "drinking Laba porridge". The custom of drinking porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month has a long history. This porridge is made of rice, beans, dates, lotus roots, peanuts, medlar, chestnuts, nuts, longan, raisins and walnuts.

2. Steam supply

"Steamed offering" is an offering prepared for sacrifice. In the past, cakes, cakes and steamed bread were all steamed with flour.

3. Eat glutinous rice

"Eating glutinous rice" is a day of great cold and solar terms, and the ancients are popular to eat food made of glutinous rice.

Step 4 remove dust

"Dust removal", also known as "getting rid of the old" and "dust removal", is a kind of general cleaning: "Every family paints the walls and sweeps away the ominous" to sweep away bad luck; On the contrary, "the twelfth lunar month does not remove dust, and the plague will be recruited in the coming year." Dust removal is generally carried out on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, on the day of "offering sacrifices to the stove".

5. Paste the window

"Sticking windows" means sticking windows with new paper. "Put up windows for good luck." For the sake of beauty, some people will cut some auspicious patterns and stick them on the windows, so it is also called "stick grilles", which is usually held on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.