What food do you usually eat with a cold?

Great cold usually eats mutton, quail and sea cucumber.

After the slight cold, 15 is a severe cold, which is also the last of the 24 solar terms in the whole year. Although the weather is cold at this time, it will not be as cold as it is from heavy snow to winter solstice because it is near spring. In the cold season, there are many people who lack physical exercise and lack quality and quantity of diet nutrition. So eat mutton, quail and sea cucumber.

According to the custom of China, especially in rural areas, people are busy going to old cloth and new ones to pickle new year's vegetables and prepare new year's goods every cold festival. During the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs and festivals. For example, sumptuous food, kitchen sacrifices and New Year's Eve, and sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, are all in this solar term. The cold solar term is full of joy and festive atmosphere, and it is a cheerful and relaxed solar term.

Folk customs during the great cold and solar terms

The 2009 Spring Festival is included in the Great Cold Solar Term. Therefore, in such a cold solar term, in addition to doing farm work to conform to the solar term, we 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 wiping things, removing old cloth, preparing new year's goods, pickling all kinds of sausages and bacon, or 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. In addition, in the cold season, people often snap up sesame stalks in the street. Because "sesame blossoms are rising day by day", on New Year's Eve, people scatter sesame stalks on the road outside the walk, so that children can crush them, which is homophonic for "stepping on the old".