24 solar terms in winter

Li, also. In winter, everything will be collected in the end.

There are three stages in early winter: the first stage is when the water begins to freeze. In early winter, the water in the north turned into ice for the first time. Enter the frozen winter thousands of miles away; It began to freeze the next day. The land also began to freeze; When a pheasant enters the flood, it must be a stork. Pheasant refers to a big bird like a pheasant, and a stork is a big clam, which is the same as the ancient people's beautiful misunderstanding of sparrows entering the water to eat mussels.

Nandina

Nandina domestica is often friends with Chimonanthus praecox and Narcissus, and is listed as a cold product.

The fruit of Nandina domestica can also be used as medicine. The most classic prescription is to treat whooping cough. Take Nandina domestica dried fruit for three to five yuan, decoct it in water, and add rock sugar to take it. The effect is particularly good.

Mushroom

The mushrooms planted on Zida, the medicine king of Beichuan, Sichuan, let us understand why mushrooms are named "mushrooms". The delicious smell from the forest is not found in mushrooms bought in the market on weekdays.

/kloc-it rained in the middle of October, and it was cold and thin, so it condensed into snow. Xiao Yi's words are not prosperous. The ancient book "Qunfangpu" said: "The light snow is cold and it will snow, but the ground is cold and the snow is not big." Generally speaking, at this time, rain will freeze into snow when it meets cold air, but it will melt when it touches the ground before it becomes climate.

Xiaoxue Sanhou: Hirozo disappeared for a while. The temperature drops, there is more snow below the north, it no longer rains, and there is no rain rainbow; Second, the weather rises and the atmosphere drops. The sun rises in the sky and the shadow falls in the ground, which leads to the impassability of heaven and earth, the incompatibility of yin and yang, and the loss of vitality of everything; Third, the weather was blocked and turned into winter. When heaven and earth closed, it became a cold winter.

Small carrot

Every spring, when the qi depression is serious, the radish is cooked most smoothly.

Radish has a strong function of promoting qi circulation, which can eliminate food stagnation, eliminate phlegm and clear heat, and reduce qi to relieve middle energizer.

rice wine

Rice wine, also known as distiller's grains, sweet wine and fermented grains, was also called "glutinous rice" in ancient times, which is actually sweet wine fermented from glutinous rice.

At this time, there is plenty of snow. "Heavy snow means colder weather, and the possibility of snowfall is greater than that of light snow. It doesn't mean that there must be a lot of snowfall.

There are three periods of heavy snow: cuckoo gulls don't sing. Cuckoo refers to a kind of bird. Seagulls, mostly waterfowl. It's cold, so I can't hear these birds singing; Waiting for the tiger to have sex. At this time, Yin Qi was in its heyday, the so-called prosperity and decline, Yang Qi had sprouted, and the tiger began to courtship; Third, wait for the plum to stand out. "Liting" is a kind of bluegrass, which feels the germination of yang and sends out new buds.

camellia

The beauty of camellia lies in its long flowering period. From 10 of the previous year, it can be opened to May of the following year, especially 1-3. From autumn to spring, if you have a camellia garden, you will not be lonely.

The most beautiful camellia is still going to Yunnan.

Camellia gets its name because its leaves can really be used as tea. Flowers can also soak in wine, commonly known as camellia wine. You can also cook the petals and glutinous rice into camellia porridge with unique flavor.

water chestnut

Sydney in winter is no exaggeration.

The water chestnut in Suzhou is the most famous, Yuhang in Hangzhou, Horseshoe in Guilin and Dahongpao in Xuanzhou. Suzhou factory, located outside Fengmen City, produces the best products. Water chestnut is slightly cold, which can clear away heat, promote fluid production, eliminate dampness and phlegm, and clear away heat and cool blood. Northerners call water chestnut "Jiangnan Ginseng".

Water chestnut can be a fruit. Fresh water chestnuts deserve natural delicacy only when eaten raw. Especially before and after the solar term of heavy snow, I peeled the skin and threw it directly into my mouth. Sweet juice, with the earthy flavor of the lotus pond in the south of the Yangtze River, is unforgettable.

People in the south of the Yangtze River will also put water chestnuts in baskets and hang them between the eaves, gradually turning them into air-dried water chestnuts. The skin is a little wrinkled. Although it looks ugly, it has a unique taste.

Water chestnut can also be made into delicious syrup with other ingredients that nourish yin and moisten lung. My favorite drink is sugar cane water chestnut syrup. The entrance is sweet and fresh, and the whole chest is clear and bright.

Winter solstice, also known as "one-day life", is a solar term and a traditional festival. The solstice in winter is as big as a year. The winter solstice, commonly known as "number nine", "winter festival", "long festival" and "sub-year", is the earliest of the 24 solar terms.

Three stages of winter solstice: one stage of earthworm knot. Legend has it that earthworms can still feel the strong yin of nature and curl up in the land; Second, wait for the elk horn to solve. The beast belongs to yin, and the feeling gradually recedes and the angle is solved; Wait for the spring to move. Water springs buried deep underground can flow and be warm, because the sun is the soul.

Chimonanthus chinensis

One is Chimonanthus praecox in front of the Buddha recitation hall at Linggu Temple in Zijinshan, Nanjing. It may be that a few years have passed and it has been greatly opened. Above the eaves of the palace, under the shade of trees, and in the half yard, the fragrance is fragrant. First, in a courtyard in Xitang, a wintersweet tree with yellow flowers lined with yellow walls. Deep, shallow, far and near yellow set each other off, and a few petals floated in, sitting in front of the courtyard and enjoying its beautiful scenery from a distance. There is also a Chimonanthus praecox in Suzhou Art Garden. It's been a month, and it's still in the corner of the secluded yard. The courtyard is surrounded by blue bricks on three sides and there is nothing. This wintersweet is particularly lonely, and there is a rare freedom in loneliness.

Chimonanthus praecox, also known as Chimonanthus praecox and Huang Meihua. It's called plum blossom, but it's not a theme with plum blossom. Chimonanthus praecox belongs to Chimonanthus of Chimonanthaceae, while Prunus mume belongs to Rosaceae. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Chimonanthus praecox, whose real name is Huang Meihua, is not plum, so it is named because its fragrance and color are similar to plum.

Chimonanthus praecox can be used to make tea.

Chinese cabbage

In the past, in the north, almost one kind of vegetable was used for winter all winter, and that was cabbage.

Probably because they were afraid that they would get tired of eating it all winter, their ancestors always had endless ideas about the cooking methods of cabbage. Besides the daily vinegar-stained Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage bean curd soup, Chinese cabbage pork jiaozi, etc. You can also put stones in the jar to make sour and delicious sauerkraut. Then, more models with sauerkraut as the main raw material are developed: white meat, sauerkraut blood sausage hot pot, fried sauerkraut, sauerkraut jiaozi ... You can also learn from Koreans and cook spicy cabbage.

Chinese cabbage, also called "Beijing cabbage" in the west, is called Shaocai in Cantonese. Yellow-leaf varieties are also called soybean sprouts.

Chinese medicine believes that Chinese cabbage has the functions of nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid production, relieving annoyance and quenching thirst. The weather is dry in winter, so eating more cabbage can nourish yin and moisten dryness.

Slight cold, the coldest day of the year. As the saying goes, "a slight cold is not as good as a severe cold." According to the solar terms, "March 9th Winter" is in the slight cold season. The last stage of winter is also the best time to raise yang. It is easy to feel yin and evil spirits during the slight cold, and the weather is always foggy. At this time, the dormant vitality in nature has begun to brew.

There are three stages of slight cold: one stage is Yanbei Township. Although it is ice and snow, but the sun has moved, so migratory birds and geese have signs of flying north; Second, the magpies began to build nests. Birds are the first to understand climate change. At this time, the magpie has got the spirit of the coming year and started to nest with grass, ready to breed; There are still three days before pheasants start fishing. Pheasants with beautiful feathers are also called "sunshine birds". When they are close to four or nine years old, they will feel the bud of Yang and sing in unison.

loose

After a white silence, only the pine forest is still as green as ever.

When you walk into the pine forest, there will be sunlight shining through the shade above your head on the soft carpet thickly paved with pine needles. Sometimes you can pick up the pine cones falling from the tree and close your eyes, and you can hear the sound like waves when the wind blows through the pine forest, as well as the unique moist fragrance of the pine forest.

When pine trees fall, pine oil will flow out of them. In the past, people in Northeast China used pine oil to light a fire, commonly known as "Qiu Zi". Pine oil turns amber after underground transformation.

Buddha's hand

The shape of bergamot is impressive. Bergamot has different shapes and is the most interesting. Just like Buddha's gestures, they are slightly open, slightly closed, unfolded, deeply grasped, plump and slim, each with its own beauty.

The bergamot can smell its fragrance. Oranges, oranges, etc. The fruits of citrus plants in Rutaceae have a particularly fresh smell.

Bergamot can also be used as medicine, which has the effects of regulating qi and resolving phlegm, soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen.

Orchid bergamot is produced in Lanxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan. Guangdong people are good at making preserved fruit with bergamot, which is made of licorice, mint and bergamot. Its taste is sweet and refreshing, and it is one of the three treasures of throat-moistening preserved fruit. In the summer heat in Guangdong, local people drink more herbal tea.

Great cold is the end of the twenty-four solar terms. After the severe cold, a new year's solar cycle will be ushered in. "Great cold is the middle, and the upper form is slight cold, so it is called Great Cold ... extremely cold, so it is called Great Cold." The cold has come to an end, the weather will get warmer in the future, and a new round of five movements and six qi will begin.

Three stages of severe cold: one stage of chicken milk. After the severe cold, the sun's spirit rises obviously, and hens can start to hatch chicks; The second syndrome is severe bird disease. In the cold season, falcons and other birds are in a state of strong predation ability, hovering in the air to find food to supplement their body energy to resist the cold; Three times, moist and firm abdomen. The temperature dropped to the lowest, and the ice in the northern sea area was frozen to the center of the water, and the ice layer reached the thickest.

narcissus

Narcissus, Amaryllidaceae herb. There are no daffodils in the Central Plains, and the original species was introduced from Europe in the Tang Dynasty. Because the bulb looks like onion and garlic, it was called "elegant garlic" in ancient times and "heavenly onion" in Song Dynasty. However, the juice of narcissus bulbs is slightly toxic.

China people list daffodils, orchids, chrysanthemums and calamus as "four elegance" among flowers; Narcissus, plum blossom, camellia and winter jasmine are listed as "four friends" in the snow.

Frozen pear

Frozen pear is actually a kind of pear with round head and round brain in Northeast China, mostly Gai Hua pear and Qiupare pear.

In winter, every family will put a basket of pears and persimmons on the balcony and eat them frozen. Just one night, the pears will be covered with ice and the color will turn black. If you want to eat frozen pears, just pick a few pots. At this time, a circle of crystal clear ice shells will be formed around the frozen pears, and the ice shells will be crushed. Pears have become soft all over, like a black sponge ball, which looks ugly. Under this ugly appearance, it is a rare delicacy.