What does slight cold mean? What are the customs of the slight cold solar terms?

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term in 24 solar terms, the end of the second month of the Ganzhi calendar and the beginning of the ugly month. The time is between 65438 and1October 5-7 in Gregorian calendar, and the sun is located at 285 degrees of the yellow meridian. For China, it's around March 9th, and the slight cold marks the beginning of the coldest day of the year. Twenty-four solar terms: "December Festival, the cold at the beginning of the month is still small, so the cloudy day is half a month."

During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge. 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.