What folk activities are there in the Great Cold?

The folk activities of the Great Cold include: dust removal, rich food at the tail, welcoming the New Year in the Great Cold, eight-treasure rice, pasting windows and so on.

1, dust removal

Dust removal, also known as "removing the old" and "dust removal", is a general cleaning; "Every family paints the wall, sweeping away the ominous", sweeping away the unlucky; 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". When removing dust, we should avoid words and pay attention to "silence is better than sound"

2. Delicious food

Tail teeth originated from the custom of worshipping the earth god as "teeth", so-called 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. Weiya has spring cakes like February 2 nd. 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.

3. welcome the new year in the cold

The severe cold solar terms often coincide with the end of the year. Therefore, in such a solar term, in addition to doing farm work according to the solar term, we also have to rush about for the New Year: catching up on new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweeping away dust and cleaning, preparing new year's goods from old cloth, curing all kinds of sausages and bacon, or frying and 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.

4. Babao rice

There is a folk saying that glutinous rice is eaten in cold weather, and the food made of glutinous rice is the most typical one. 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.

5. Paste the window

Just paste the window with new paper, "paste the window 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.