What are the customs of the 24 solar terms

Customs and diet of the 24 solar terms:

1, spring, commonly known as "playing spring". The old custom of spring, both an ancient festival, but also a major festival. The son of heaven to be in the spring day, the rate of the vassals, doctor to welcome the spring in the eastern suburbs, the order of the line of virtue and favor. On the day of spring, the village elected an old man, with a whip to symbolically hit the spring cow three times, means that a year of farming began. Folk artists make many small clay oxen, called "spring oxen".

Sent to each home, called "send spring". The owner pays the person who sends the oxen to the house. It is more of a festive selling activity, but it is a happy occasion for all. In some places, a yellow paper with a spring bull on it is put on the wall. The yellow color represents the land, the spring ox represents the agricultural affairs, commonly known as "spring ox figure". Spring Festival, folk customary to eat radish, ginger, green onions, flour cakes, known as "bite spring".

2, rain, not only characterize the beginning of rainfall and rainfall increase, but also indicates that the temperature rises. Before the rain, the weather is relatively cold. After the rain, the spring breeze sends warmth, disease-causing bacteria, viruses are easy to spread with the wind, so spring infectious diseases are often prone to outbreaks and epidemics. You should protect yourself, pay attention to exercise, strengthen resistance, and prevent the occurrence of diseases.

In the rainy season, the earth's dampness is gradually rising, and in the morning there are dew, frost. So for such a climate, diet should focus on nourishing the spleen and stomach and remove wind and dampness. And because the climate at this time is cold, can be appropriate tonic, such as honey, jujube, yam, silver fungus, etc. are suitable for this season of tonic.

3, hibernation, symbolizing the beginning of February, will be a sound of thunder, wake up all the hibernation of snakes, insects, rodents and ants, home reptiles and ants will be up in response to the sound, foraging around. So ancient hibernation day, people will hold incense, wormwood, smoked four corners of the home to scent to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and mildew, over time, and gradually evolved into the bad luck of the people who beat the head and drive away the bad luck of the habit, that is, "playing the little man" predecessor.

The hibernation season, the first warm and cold, the climate is relatively dry, it is easy to make people dry mouth, cough. Raw pear cold taste sweet, moisturize the lungs, cough, nourishing Yin heat effect, folk have been eating pear hibernation custom. In addition, cough patients can also eat lotus seed, loquat, Luo Han Guo and other foods to ease the pain, the diet should be light, greasy food is best not to eat, stimulating foods, such as chili, onion and garlic, pepper should also eat less.

4, the spring equinox, the spring equinox is generally in the calendar March 20 or 21 days. Equinox day day and night is divided into 12 hours each, the equinox is also just spring (spring to summer) three months, the equal division of the spring. It is said that "spring equinox and autumn equinox, day and night are equally divided", so the equinox is also known as "day in", "day and night".

Beginning of the tomb sweeping and ancestor worship, also known as the spring festival. The old folk "spring equinox eat spring vegetables" custom, spring vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, also known as spring artemisia.　Jiangnan region is popular to treat the plowing oxen, the custom of sacrificing birds.

5, Qingming tomb sweeping, ancestor worship, has a long history, has become customary. Tomb-sweeping, also known as tomb-sacrifice, sweeping, tomb. Qingming tomb sweeping is because the hibernation, the spring equinox has passed, the snow melted, grass and trees sprouted, people thought of their own ancestors graves Ying, there are no foxes and rabbits through the holes, will not be due to the rainy season and collapse, so to the graves on the one hand to remove weeds, repair tree branches, to the grave to add a few shovels of soil.

On the other hand, prepare some offerings, burn a few paper money, hang some paper strips on the branches of the tree, and hold a simple ceremony to express the memory of the deceased. Before and after the Qingming Festival, there are also many traditional colorful cultural and sports activities, such as tug-of-war, swinging, kite flying, playing polo, cockfighting and other activities.

6, the rain, the meaning of "rain water to produce hundreds of grains". In the south of the Yangtze River, peonies are commonly called "Grain Rain Flower", and since they bloom in the Grain Rain Festival, there is a proverb that says "Grain Rain is the third day of the year to see peonies". Wherever there are flowers, ladies and gentlemen would visit and enjoy the flowers, which was called "Flower Fair". For fishermen, it is a popular custom to sacrifice to the sea on the Grain Rain Festival.　

Southern Guyu tea picking custom, legend has it that Guyu tea this day will clear the fire, to ward off evil spirits, bright eyes and so on. So no matter what the weather is, people will go to the tea mountain to pick some new tea to drink.

7, summer, the old countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white polished round-grained rice cooked into "five-color rice", after the evolution of the Japanese soybean meat boiled glutinous rice, vegetables with amaranth yellow fish soup, said to eat "summer rice. Eggs boiled in black tea or walnut shells are called "Tachibana eggs" and given to each other.

Colorful thread woven egg cover, hanging on the child's chest, or hanging on the tent. Children generally play eating eggs fighting egg game, to crutch summer eggs as a play, to the egg shell firm and not broken for the win, proverb: "summer chest hanging eggs, children do not Resistance to summer." Resistance and propulsion is common in summer, anorexia, weakness and lethargy, children are especially susceptible to resistance and propulsion. There are still five-color silk thread for children tied hand rope, called "summer rope".

8, Xiaoman, South China has a "full of small full of rivers full of folk proverbs", reflecting the region's rainfall, rainfall characteristics. The temperature increases significantly, the amount of rain increases, after the rain, the temperature will drop sharply, so pay attention to add clothes, do not get cold and wind and catch a cold.

Small full is the prone period of wet skin disease, so dietary modification is appropriate to refreshing and light vegetarian diet, often eat foods that have the effect of clearing dampness and heat, such as azuki beans, mung beans, winter melon, cucumber, cucumber, watercress, watercress, black fungus, carrots, tomatoes and so on.

9, mango, is wheat and other awned crops ripe meaning. The custom of the Mangseo day to offer candied flowers God. Mangseo season has boiled plum food custom, this food custom in the Xia Dynasty has been. There are many ways to cook plums, the simple one is to cook with sugar and plums or mix sugar with sun-dried plums to make the juice of the plums leach out.

There are also salt and plums with cooking or salt and sun-dried plums mixed evenly so that the juice of the plums leaching, more sophisticated but also in which to add people perilla. China's northern production of plums is very famous, will be cooked with licorice, hawthorn, rock sugar, will be made into a summer delicacy - sour plum soup.

10, the summer solstice, this day, although the longest day, the highest angle of the sun, but not the hottest weather of the year. Summer solstice is the earliest festival in China. Before the Qing Dynasty, the summer solstice national vacation day, go home and relatives reunion drink. In Guangdong, it was popular to say, "Summer solstice dog, no idyllic place to go (nowhere to hide)."

There is a local saying that eating dog meat on the summer solstice can get rid of evil spirits, ward off the plague and so on. "Eat the dog on the summer solstice, the west wind go around", to the effect that as long as people eat dog meat on the day of the summer solstice, its body will be able to resist the invasion of the west wind and rain, less colds, good health. It is based on this good will, the achievement of the "summer solstice dog meat" this unique folk food culture.

11, small summer, the past folk have "eat new" custom, that is, after the small summer taste new rice, farmers will be newly cut rice milled into rice, do a good job of rice for the gods of the grains and ancestors, and then everyone ate to taste the new wine and so on. It is said that "eating new" is "eating Xin", the first Xin day after the summer festival. Cities usually buy a small amount of new rice to cook with the old rice, along with newly released vegetables.

So, the folk have a small summer to eat millet, summer to eat grain said. Proverb: small summer eel race ginseng. Eel was born in the mud cave in the waterfront, to small summer before and after a month of summer eel is the most nourishing flavor. Summer is often chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases in remission, and eel is warm and sweet, with a tonic, tonic liver and spleen, in addition to rheumatism, strong bones and other roles.

According to the winter disease summer supplementation, the small summer season is the most appropriate to eat is eel, eel protein content is high, iron content than carp yellowtail more than double, and contains a variety of minerals and vitamins, eel can also reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood, to prevent and control cardiovascular disease caused by atherosclerosis, on the accumulation of food does not eliminate the diarrhea caused by a better role.

12, big summer, generally in the calendar July 22 or 23rd. Summer is the meaning of heat, the great summer is the hottest season of the year. Winter tonic three nine, summer tonic three volts. The nutrients of poultry meat are mainly protein, followed by fat, microorganisms and minerals, etc. Relative to livestock meat, it is a low-fat, high-protein food, and its proteins also belong to high-quality protein.

Chickens, ducks, pigeons and other poultry are the top choice for summer tonic. Taiwan folk proverb: eat pineapple in the summer, said the pineapple at this time of the year is the most delicious.

13, Autumn, generally in the calendar August 7 or 8. Autumn means the summer is gone and cool, the beginning of autumn. Zhou Dynasty, the day of autumn, the son of God personally rate three dukes and nine ministers of the vassals to the western suburbs to meet the autumn, held a sacrificial ceremony. The Han Dynasty inherited this custom, and kill the beast to sacrifice, said the fall to Yangwu meaning. Folk have in the fall of the weather in the divination of hot and cold customs.

The folk proverb: summer planted eggplant, eat eggplant in the fall. Autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Folklore the day before the fall of the melon, steamed eggplant preserved, fragrant glutinous soup and so on in the yard to dry one night, in the fall of the day to eat.

14, the summer, before and after the folk will be celebrated in praise of the folk activities of the yuan, commonly known as "for the half of the seventh month" or "in the yuan festival". In the old days, the folk from the beginning of July, there is the opening of the ghost door of the ceremony, until the end of the month off the ghost door stop, will be held Pudu charity activities.

It is said that the Pudu activities start from the opening of the ghost gate, and then put up the lantern pole, release the river lamps to invoke the lonely souls; and the main body is in the construction of the Pudu altar, set up the lonely shed, interspersed with robbing the lonely and other actions, and finally end with the closing of the ghost gate. To this day, it has become a major event of ancestor worship. Folklore before and after the summer festival is mostly related to ancestor worship and welcoming the fall.

15, white dew, every year around September 7 on the Gregorian calendar is white dew. Temperatures begin to drop and the weather turns cooler. Yang is at the summer solstice to reach its peak, things will be opposite, the yin also rise at this time. By White Dew, the yin gas gradually aggravated, the morning dew with the increasingly thick, condensed into a layer of white droplets, so it is called White Dew.　

White Dew season has been the beginning of the real cool season, many people in the body tonic emphasizes seafood meat and other nutrients tonic, but ignored the seasonal susceptibility to disease, to themselves and their families caused organic damage, in the White Dew season to avoid nasal diseases, asthma and bronchial disease. Usually should eat less or not eat fish and shrimp sea fishy, raw and cold sizzling braised pickles, spicy, sour, salty, sweet and fat food.

16, the autumn equinox, time is generally September 22 or 23 each year. The climate in the south from this festival only began to fall. According to the lunar calendar, "Autumn" is the beginning of autumn, to "frost" for the end of autumn, and "Autumn Equinox" is exactly half of the 90 days from autumn to frost. In the autumn equinox, many regions of China are held "vertical egg" folk activities.

17, cold dew season, the South Ridge and north of the vast area has entered the fall, the northeast and northwest have entered or will enter the winter. In addition to the year-round snow on the Tibetan Plateau, the Northeast and northern Xinjiang region has generally begun to snow.

Cold dew diet should be based on a balanced diet of five flavors, according to the specific circumstances of individuals, appropriate more sweet, light and moisturizing food, not only can make up for the spleen and stomach, but also to nourish the lungs and intestines, can prevent and control dry throat and mouth dryness and other diseases. Fruits such as pears, persimmons, bananas, etc.; vegetables such as carrots, winter melon, lotus root, silver fungus, etc. and beans, mushrooms, kelp, nori, etc..

Breakfast should eat warm food, the best drink hot medicine porridge, because round-grained rice, glutinous rice are excellent for strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenish the role of the middle gas, like sugar cane porridge, bamboo porridge, salvia porridge, raw land porridge, yellow essence porridge. Middle-aged and elderly people and chronic patients should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yam, duck, fish, meat and other foods.

18, frost contains the weather is getting cold, the beginning of the meaning of frost. In the calendar October 23rd or 24th, the sun is located in the yellow longitude 210 ° for frost, is the last season of autumn. Frost season, health care is particularly important, there is a folk proverb "a year to make up through, not as good as make up the frost", see the impact of this festival on us. The frosty season is the peak of the recurrence of chronic gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcer disease.

Elderly people are also very susceptible to "old cold legs" (osteoarthritis of the knee), chronic bronchitis is also prone to relapse or aggravation. This time should eat more pears, apples, white fruit, onions, mustard (potherb mustard). Chestnuts have the effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the tendons, activating the blood, stopping bleeding, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, which is a good tonic at this time.

Frost all over the grass, trees, soil and stone, commonly known as frost, and after the frost covered vegetables such as spinach, winter melon, eat up the flavor is particularly fresh, frosted fruits, such as grapes is very sweet. Ancient people generally eat both mutton and rabbit meat in the fall. ?

19, winter, not only represents the arrival of winter, complete, winter is expressed the beginning of winter, the collection of all things, return to avoid the meaning of cold.　Lidong is a big festival in October, the Han Wei period, this day, the son of the group of ministers to personally meet the winter gas, the martyrs who died for the country and their families and children to recognize and compassion, please the dead to protect the living, to encourage the people to resist the foreign cause or hungry invaders of plunder and invasion.

There are folk customs such as ancestor worship, feasts, and divination, in which seasonal delicacies are offered to the spirits of the ancestors to fulfill their duties and responsibilities as children and grandchildren, and to pray to heaven for a good year ahead, and the farmers themselves are rewarded with wine and rest. Although there is no hibernation in human beings, there is a custom of winterization in folklore.

20, snow, is a reflection of the weather phenomenon of the season. Snow is small, and no snow on the ground, which is the original meaning of the festival "Snow". After the snow, the temperature drops sharply, the weather becomes dry, is a good time to process bacon. After the snow festival, some farmers began to do sausage, bacon, wait until the Spring Festival just to enjoy the food.

Eating mochi, in some parts of the south, is also customary in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, mochi was a traditional festival offering in the southern region, and was first used by farmers to offer sacrifices to the bull god. There is a saying, "October morning, mochi LuLu burning," which refers to the sacrificial event.

21, Daxue, is expressed in this period of heavy snowfall starting time and the degree of snow, it and snow, rain, rain and other festivals, are directly reflecting the precipitation of the festival. At this time, the north of our country suffers from more people with colds, such as serving some Daxue Shunan health soup, to resist the cold evil attack of the body surface, mouth and nose is very beneficial.

22, the winter solstice, in was treated as a large festival, there was "winter solstice is as big as the year", and there are customs to celebrate the winter solstice. The northern region has the winter solstice slaughter sheep, eat dumplings, eat wontons custom, the southern region in this day have eaten the winter solstice rice ball, winter solstice long noodle habit. Various regions also have the custom of sacrificing to the sky and ancestors on the winter solstice.

23, Xiaohan, generally in the calendar January 5 or 6. Little cold means the weather has been very cold. Folk have "small cold, big cold, cold into the ice ball" proverb. Literally seems to be cold in the small cold, in fact, in the meteorological record, the small cold period to be colder than the big cold, it is often said that "cold in the three nine, hot in the three volts", and "three nine days" in the small cold season, so that the small cold is the coldest season of the year.

This season young people pay attention not to over-eat fat, sweet and spicy products and acne. To the small cold, the old Nanjing will generally cook vegetables and rice to eat, vegetables and rice is not the same content, but are vegetables and glutinous rice cooked together, very fragrant and delicious. Guangzhou tradition in the small cold morning to eat glutinous rice, in order to avoid too glutinous, generally 60% glutinous rice 40% fragrant rice.

24, Dahan is one of the last of the twenty-four solar terms. Every year around January 20 when the sun reaches 300 ° yellow longitude for the big cold. Indicates that the weather is bitterly cold, the coldest period to come. According to China's customs, especially in the countryside, every big cold festival, people will begin to busy in the old and new, pickling the annual food, prepare the new year's goods.

There are many important folk customs and festivals during the period from Dahan to Lichun. For example, the tailing festival, stove festival and New Year's Eve, and sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, is in this festival. The Dahan festival is full of joy and happiness, and is a cheerful and relaxing festival.

The twenty-four solar terms are the original cultural heritage of China's laboring people, which reflect the changes of the seasons, guide agricultural activities, and affect the clothing, food, housing and transportation of thousands of families.

Since 2000 years, China's main center of political activity is concentrated in the Yellow River area, the twenty-four solar terms are also based on the climate and weather in this area. Because of the vastness of China and its changing topography, the 24 solar terms are only a reference for many regions.

From the literal meaning of the twenty-four solar terms:

Rising spring, rising summer, rising fall, and rising winter - each represents the beginning of the four seasons. "Li" means the beginning. On the Gregorian calendar, it generally falls on or around February 4, May 5, August 7 and November 7 of each year.

Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice - indicate the arrival of summer and winter. "Solstice" means arrival. The summer solstice and winter solstice generally fall on June 21 and December 22 of the Gregorian calendar each year.

Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox - indicate that the length of day and night is equal. "Equinox" means equal division. These two festivals generally fall around March 20 and September 23 on the Gregorian calendar each year.

Rain - indicates the beginning of precipitation and a gradual increase in the amount of rain. The rain falls around February 18 every year in the Gregorian calendar.

Hibernation - The first stirrings of spring thunder awaken animals hibernating in the soil. This is a time when the temperature rises faster and gradually spring thunder sprouts. Hibernation occurs around March 5 on the Gregorian calendar every year.

Ching Ming - contains the meaning of clear weather, fresh and clean air, gradually warming, grass and trees flourish. Qingming is celebrated on the Gregorian calendar around April 5 every year.

Grain Rain - rain increases, greatly favoring the growth of cereal crops. Grain rain falls around April 20 every year on the Gregorian calendar.

Small full - the meaning is that the seeds of summer crops are beginning to fill up, but not yet ripe, just small full, not yet full. About May 21 every year on this day for the small full.

Manshi - wheat and other awned crops mature, the beginning of summer planting. It is celebrated around June 5 every year.

Small Summer, Great Summer, and First Summer - Summer means heat. Small summer has not yet reached the hottest, big summer is the hottest time, the summer is the end of the summer days. They are around July 7, July 23 and August 23 on the Gregorian calendar, respectively.

White Dew - Temperatures begin to drop, the weather turns cooler, and there is dew on the grass and trees in the morning. White Dew falls around September 7 on the Gregorian calendar every year.

Cold Dew - the temperature is even lower, and the air is already dewy and gradually chilly. This day is usually on October 8 every year.

Frostfall - the weather is getting colder and frost begins to form. Frostfall usually falls on October 23rd of each year on the Gregorian calendar.

Little Snow, Big Snow - the beginning of snowfall, with little and big indicating the degree of snowfall. Light snow falls on Nov. 22 and heavy snow falls around Dec. 7 of each year in the Gregorian calendar.

Small Cold, Big Cold - the weather gets further cold, Small Cold is not yet the coldest, Big Cold is the coldest time of the year. January 5 and around the 20th of the month on the Gregorian calendar for small and large cold.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Twenty-four Seasons of the Lunar Calendar