What does the slight cold solar term symbolize?

What is the moral of slight cold? What does the slight cold solar term symbolize?

Represents the beginning of the coldest day of the year. A slight chill means that the weather is cold but not extreme. In the slight cold season, the direct point of the sun is still in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere is still in a state of loss. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so the temperature in the northern hemisphere continues to decrease.

Slight cold climate characteristics:

Slight cold, like severe cold, mild summer heat, severe summer heat and intense summer heat, are all solar terms indicating temperature changes. Cold means cold, and slight cold means the degree of cold.

The slight cold solar term began to form the most powerful and stable East Asian trough, and the Mongolian cold high and Aleutian low also reached the most powerful and stable period. The scale of the westerly ridge reaches the maximum, which matches the maximum intensity of the westerly wind. Although the cooling process of cold air is frequent in the slight cold season, many of them can't meet the cold wave standard. People should still pay attention to the forecast of strong cold air by the Meteorological Observatory, guard against the influence of strong winds and rain and snow weather on travel in Spring Festival travel rush, and pay attention to cold and antifreeze.

In the slight cold season, the average temperature in Northeast China is around -30℃, the extreme minimum temperature can be as low as -50℃, and the average maximum temperature in the afternoon is only -20℃. Looking around, it seems that people are in a world of ice sculptures and jade carvings. In Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the area north of latitude 45 and the northern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the average temperature is around -20℃, and the area west of Hetao near latitude 40 is around-10℃, which is a scene of severe winter. The average temperature on the first line from Qinling to Huaihe River is around 0℃.

Slight cold custom:

As the saying goes, "a slight cold is cold, and it turns into a hockey." The slight cold is during February 9 and March 9, and "the cold is during March 9 and April 9", and the degree of cold can be imagined. In terms of diet, mutton hot pot, sugar-fried chestnuts and baked sweet potatoes have become the fashion of Xiaohan. As the saying goes, "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year", which is the practice of eating mutton to regulate the body in winter. In life, in addition to paying attention to daily warmth, the taste of entering the slight cold year is getting stronger and stronger. In ancient times, people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and people can only find a little trace from life.

Nanjing eats vegetable rice

Nanjing people have a set of regional physical exercise methods in the slight cold season, such as skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, rolling iron rings, squeezing oil residue (squeezing walls), fighting cocks (propping up on one foot and fighting independently) and so on. If it snows, you will cheer, have a snowball fight and make a snowman. You will soon be warm and your blood vessels will be unobstructed.

Eating glutinous rice in Guangdong

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. Cantonese people are very particular about diet therapy. The slight cold is due to the strong rust smell and weak kidney qi in the middle of winter. Therefore, the diet should be sweetened and bitter, nourishing the heart and lungs, and nourishing the kidneys. Chi Xiaoling said that the so-called "three nine make up one winter", but remember that slight cold can't make up for it.