What is the date and time of the great cold in 2022?

What is the date and time of the great cold in 2022?

202265438+1October 20 10:38:56

The Gregorian calendar is around 65438+10.20 every year. When the sun reaches 300 degrees of the Yellow Meridian, it is the great cold, which is the 24th solar term among the 24 solar terms. Great cold, as its name implies, is extremely cold weather. "Give the time to pass the exam, the weather" quotes "Three Rites and Righteousness": "Great cold is the middle, and the upper form is slight cold, so it is called big? It is extremely cold, which is called great cold. "

What's the difference between severe cold and slight cold?

1, after the winter solstice, the direct point of sunlight will gradually move northward, but in the following time, the direct point of sunlight will always be in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere will always be lost. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night. Therefore, after the winter solstice, the temperature in the northern hemisphere will continue to decrease, and slight cold and severe cold will become the two coldest solar terms in a year. As the saying goes, "It's 239 when it's cold, and I'm shivering with cold." . This shows the cold degree of the slight cold solar terms.

2. Every year around 65438+10.20, when the sun reaches 300 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is a great cold. The ancients thought that the "day" of alternating cold and summer was to recover quickly after a cold. If you caught a bad cold before the slight cold, and you can't feel "recovered" after the coldest, then put the bad cold behind you and let it return to beginning of spring, which is in line with the way of "extremes meet". There is also a saying that the slight cold in winter corresponds to the "slight heat" in summer, so it is called "slight cold"; The severe cold in winter just corresponds to the "great summer heat" in summer, so it is called "great cold"

Great cold custom activities:

Weide abundant gourmet

According to the custom of China, especially in rural areas, people are busy going to old cloth and new ones to pickle new year's vegetables and prepare new year's goods every cold festival. During the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs and festivals. For example, sumptuous food, kitchen sacrifices and New Year's Eve, and sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, are all in this solar term. The cold solar term is full of joy and festive atmosphere, and it is a cheerful and relaxed solar term. Tail teeth originated from the custom of worshipping the earth god as "teeth"

The so-called second day of February is the first tooth. From now on, every second and sixteenth day is the "tooth", which happens to be the tail tooth on the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month. For example, on February 2nd, Weiya has spring cakes (called Runbing in the south). On this day, buyers and sellers will hold a banquet, and boiled chicken is an essential dish at the banquet. It is said that whoever the head of a chicken faces means who the boss will fire next year. Therefore, some bosses now generally aim at their heads, so that employees can enjoy delicious food and have a stable year after returning home.

Drink chicken soup

In the cold winter, Nanjing people's daily diet is more stew and soup. The severe cold has reached the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the traditional eating custom of "one chicken" is still respected by many citizens' families. Nanjing people choose old hens, or stew them alone, or add ginseng, medlar, black fungus and so on. Drinking chicken soup in cold winter is really a pleasure.

In the twelfth lunar month, old Nanjing also likes to make soup, and soup dishes can be seen everywhere, with different practices. For example, the soup in the north tends to be thick, the soup in the south tends to be light and delicate, while the soup in Nanjing takes the long taste of the north and the south, which is neither too thick nor light, but fresh or sweet when it is fresh. Another reason why Nanjing people like to drink soup in winter is that raw materials are easy to get, complex and simple, valuable and cheap. Minced meat, tofu, yam, fungus, sweet potato, mustard tuber, etc. You can make it all into hot soup, with some coriander and some white pepper, so you can eat it all warm.

Welcome the new year.

The severe cold solar terms often coincide with the end of the year. Therefore, in this solar term, in addition to doing farm work according to the solar term, we have to rush about for the New Year-catching new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweeping away dust and cleaning things, preparing new year's goods from old cloth, curing all kinds of sausages and bacon, or cooking new year's dishes such as chicken, duck and fish.

At the same time, sacrifice ancestors and various gods to pray for good weather in the coming year. In the streets of the old cold season, people often rushed to buy sesame stalks. Because "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher", on New Year's Eve, people scatter sesame stalks on the way outside for a walk, so that children can crush them, which is homophonic "stepping on the old". At the same time, the homonym of "crush" and "old" means "peace all the year round" and won a good New Year greeting. This also makes the great cold drive away evil and welcome auspicious festivals more intense.

Eat cold-dispelling cake

The custom of eating "Lianggao" has a long history in Beijing. Cold-dispelling cake is a kind of rice cake, not only because its glutinous rice has higher sugar content than rice, it feels warm all over, and it has the effects of warming up cold, moistening lung and strengthening spleen and stomach, but also because people choose to eat rice cake on the day of "great cold", which also means "high year", which means good luck, peace every year and rising step by step. "So, in the custom of old Beijing, on the day of the cold, the whole family eats rice cakes, which is auspicious and can dispel the cold, so it is called' dispelling cold cakes'.

In addition, in the cold season, people often snap up sesame stalks in the street. Because "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher", on New Year's Eve, people scatter sesame stalks on the road and let children crush them, which is homophonic for "stepping on the old". At the same time, it is homophonic with "broken" and "old", which means "peace through the years" and wins a good year. This also makes the great cold drive away evil and welcome auspicious festivals more intense. With the coming of the Great Cold Festival, Daoxiang Village, Daoxiangchun, Gui Xiang Village and other time-honored brands have all launched their own "cold-dispelling cakes". At Cuiwei Store in Daoxiang Village, "Quhan Cake" was placed in the most obvious position on the counter.

Eat glutinous rice

In the vast areas of southern China, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice in severe cold. Although this custom sounds simple, it contains the life experience accumulated by predecessors. Because the cold weather is particularly cold, glutinous rice is a kind of food with high calorie and has a good cold-proof effect. There are many ways to make glutinous rice, which has the effect of tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting qi, so it is most suitable to eat glutinous rice in cold season.

Eat eight-treasure rice

Like slight cold, the severe cold solar term is also the solar term indicating the degree of cold, and it is also the last solar term in a year, followed by beginning of spring in the coming year. Because it is close to spring, it is still in a cold period in meteorological records, although it is not as cold as from heavy snow to winter solstice and slight cold. Folklore calls it "slight cold and cold, cold becomes ice hockey" At this time, people are busy taking off old cloth, pickling new year's vegetables and preparing new year's goods, and they can already feel the scene of spring in the earth.

Eight-treasure rice, a custom food of severe cold and solar terms, is a Han food, which is popular all over the country, especially in Jiangnan area. Steamed glutinous rice, mixed with sugar, lard and osmanthus fragrans, poured into a container filled with fruit materials such as red dates, coix seed, lotus seeds and longan pulp, steamed and poured with sugar marinade. It tastes sweet and is a good holiday and hospitality. Eating eight-treasure rice in the cold season has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and is suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood, such as physical weakness, fatigue and fatigue.