What are the characteristics and customs of the great cold solar terms?

The great cold solar term is characterized by very cold weather and little precipitation. The cold custom is:

1, prepare for the Spring Festival. The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. After the severe cold, beginning of spring will usher in a new year's solar cycle. The Spring Festival is just around beginning of spring. As soon as it gets cold, the flavor of the New Year becomes stronger and stronger. In recent years, the severe cold solar terms are filled with happy and festive atmosphere everywhere, which is a cheerful and relaxed solar term. In this solar term, people are busy getting rid of old decorations, pickling preserved Spring Festival dishes and preparing new year's goods.

2. Cook glutinous rice. There is a saying in Lingnan folk proverb: "Slight cold and severe cold, cold without wind." In the extremely cold days of the traditional solar terms, Guangdong folk formed the custom of eating glutinous rice. Nowadays, in Guangdong, you can often see such a scene. Before the great cold, every household cooked a pot of fragrant glutinous rice and mixed it with bacon, dried shrimps, dried squid and mushrooms to welcome the coldest day in the traditional solar terms.

3. Taste rich food. The customs of some places in southern China, from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, have many important folk customs and festivals, such as rich food. Tail teeth originated from the custom of worshipping the earth god as "teeth"

4. Eat Laba porridge. Laba Festival is an important popular festival in northern China. The custom of this festival is to eat Laba porridge. Laba porridge, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors porridge", "Buddha porridge" and "everyone's meal", is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients.

5, drink chicken soup, stew hooves in Jiangsu area, there is a traditional eating custom of "19 1 chicken". Although the severe cold solar term is around September of the lunar calendar, Nanjing people still want to drink chicken soup. Roast chicken must be cooked with old chicken, or stewed separately, or stewed with ginseng, sacrifices and black fungus. Chicken soup is delicious and nutritious, which is very suitable for cold winter.