What are the special foods of the slight cold solar terms?

What are the special foods of the slight cold solar terms?

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term among the 24 solar terms, the 5th solar term in winter, the end of the second month of the dry calendar and the beginning of the ugly month. Cold air is cold for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. Like severe cold, mild summer heat, severe summer heat and intense summer heat, it is a solar term indicating temperature change. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

1, eat Laba

porridge

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhism and Taoism Festival" and "Daohui". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba Festival is mainly popular in northern China, and the festival custom is to drink Laba porridge.

Step 2 eat glutinous rice

In Guangzhou, Han Xiao wants to eat glutinous rice in the morning. Glutinous rice is not just boiled glutinous rice. It will be served with fried "bacon" (commonly known as sausage and bacon in Guangdong), coriander, chopped green onion and other materials, which tastes particularly fragrant. "Leaving fragrance" is essential for cooking glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and cold-resistant; On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky, and rice smells heavy. It needs some oil to mix the flavor.

3, eat soybean sprouts: According to the "Tianjin Miscellanies" records, Tianjin Xiaohan solar terms have the custom of eating soybean sprouts. Soybean sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, made of Chinese cabbage buds. In the past winter, people could eat few kinds of vegetables. Soybean sprouts make up for the shortage of vegetables in winter to some extent. Now, with the improvement of planting technology, people can eat a lot of fresh vegetables even in winter.