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What the ancients would do during the Great Cold

In ancient times, every family was busy collecting ice and storing it during the cold season. The ice was harvested for use in the coming summer. There were no refrigerators in ancient times, so they relied on the ice collected at the coldest time of the year for use in the summer.

What are the characteristics and customs of the Dahan festival?

Dahan, the last of the 24 solar terms, is celebrated on January 20-21 of the Gregorian calendar. Dahan is a festival that indicates the degree of cold weather, and Dahan means the weather is cold to the extreme. The Dahan festival is in the three-nine, four-nine period, when the cold wave south frequently, is the coldest time of the year.

In some parts of China, every to the big cold to spring this time, there are many important folk customs, summarized at least ten customs, respectively: "food glutinous", "long drink", "do teeth! ", "dust sweeping", "paste window", "wax flavor", "catch the wedding", "while the market", "bath", "paste the year red" and so on.