Today is Xiaohan. The Chinese people like the solar calendar the most. How much do you know about Xiaohan? Xiaohan is the 23rd solar term in the 24 solar terms and the fifth solar term in winter. It is Xiaohan solar term when the sun reaches 28.5 degrees in the Yellow longitude on January 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. As the saying goes, 'cold in September'.
"39" is mostly from January 9 to 17, which is also just within the small cold solar term. Therefore, the cold often marks the beginning of the coldest day of the year.
Climatologically speaking, after the winter solstice, although the direct sunlight point moves northward, in the following period of time, the direct sunlight point is still located in the southern hemisphere, most of China's heat revenue in the daytime still can not withstand the loss of heat released at night, so the temperature will continue to decrease until the income and heat released tend to be equal.
In the light cold season, most of our country has entered the period of severe cold. The soil is frozen, the river is frozen, and the cold air in the North keeps going south. The weather is cold. People call it "nine cold days". In the south of our country, although it is not as cold as in the north, the temperature has also dropped significantly. The coldest time in the south is between the cold and the rain. When it's cold, it's dry, and when it's raining, it's wet.
How much do you know about the custom of Xiaohan
In the cold season, the weather is freezing and the 'New Year's flavor' is getting stronger. In addition to daily warmth, people are paying more and more attention to activities such as writing spring couplets, cutting window flowers, buying new year pictures, colorful lights, firecrackers, incense sticks and so on. In terms of diet, it is fashionable to wash mutton hot pot, eat sugar, stir fry chestnuts and roast white potatoes. As the saying goes, "three nine make up one winter, there will be no pain in the next year", which means the practice of eating mutton to nourish the body in winter.
Laba drink porridge
One of the most important customs in Xiaohan solar term is eating Laba porridge. It is recorded in Yanjing's chronicle of the year: "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, jiangmi, millet, water chestnut, chestnut, red cowpea, peeled jujube mud, etc. in combination with water, and dyed with red peach kernel, almond, melon seed, peanut, hazelnut, pine nut, white sugar, brown sugar, and Zozo grape for spot dyeing. '
Laba porridge in Beijing can be said to be the most exquisite. There are more things mixed with white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, grapes, white fruits, green silk, roses, red beans, peanuts & hellip; hellip; there are no less than 20 kinds. In the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to wash rice, soak fruit, peel and go to the kernel. In the middle of the night, they began to stew with a small fire until the next morning.
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Xiaohan solar term originated from the Yellow River Basin at first. It is said that in the early years, when the farmers in the Yellow River Basin met with Xiaohan, they used the "nine nine year cold elimination map" to avoid the cold and keep healthy. Jiujiu cold dispelling picture is a double hook drawing of red calligraphy 'willow in front of the pavilion cherishes the spring Phoenix', all of which are traditional Chinese characters. Nine characters, nine strokes and nine strokes in total, make a stroke every day from the winter solstice according to the sequence of strokes, and fill in a word every time after 1909. After the spring return to the big land, a Jiujiu cold dispelling picture is a great success. Xiaohan solar term is in the period of severe cold, so there is a close relationship between the folk custom of 'drawing and counting nine' and Xiaohan solar term. Counting nine and painting red in calligraphy can not only get rid of the cold, but also be a good way to keep healthy in winter.
Eat rice
It is a custom of old Nanjing for Xiaohan to eat vegetable rice. Nanjing people attach great importance to Xiaohan. People will cook rice with glutinous rice, ginger, short leg yellow, bacon slices, sausage slices or duck diced. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is the evil of Yin. Xiaohan is the coldest solar term in a year, and it is also the period when Yin Qi is most abundant. The glutinous rice in Nanjing vegetable rice can nourish the middle and Qi, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and enhance the body's ability to resist cold evil; ginger has a pungent and warm taste, which has the effect of sweating, relieving the surface, warming the lung and dispersing cold. In addition, Nanjing specialty short leg yellow, sausage, duck, medicine and food supplement, delicious, especially warm after eating in winter, can be compared with Laba porridge.
There is a good way for Xiaohan to keep healthy
Prevent vascular disease and rheumatism
Due to the cold weather of the small cold solar term, the number of patients with cardiovascular disease increased significantly compared with the previous years, because people will cause capillary contraction after inhaling cold air, the resistance of peripheral blood vessels will increase, the blood pressure will increase gradually, and then it is particularly easy to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, keeping warm is the first priority, especially for the shoulder, neck, feet and other vulnerable parts to be taken good care of. For the elderly, while keeping warm, we should pay attention to ventilation and keep away from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Don't wash your hair before going out and going to bed
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the head is the meeting of all Yang, and the head is particularly vulnerable to cold when the small cold solar term goes out. The cold is the source of all diseases, and the long-term accumulation of cold air is particularly easy to lead to the occurrence of diseases. It's not only easy to wear a hat to keep your head warm, but also important not to wash your hair before going out or going to bed. If we don't pay attention to the cold, it will invade our body and breed winter disease. It's better to go to bed early and get up late to keep warm. Small cold solar term is a period of sudden low temperature drop and frequent heavy rain and snow, so keeping warm is the first priority.
Sports should be after sunrise
It is said that "winter practice is on September 9", but the principle of sports in the cold season is: first, start to exercise after sunrise; second, do not carelessly prepare for sports, and take off clothes after the body is warm. Exercise should be moderate to nourish the stomach. Don't sweat until you have done it. Wear clothes in time after exercise to avoid the invasion of cold evil. Sports can choose long-distance running, skiing, rope skipping, shuttlecock kicking and so on.
Reducing sweetness, increasing bitterness and eating less spicy hot pot
Xiaohan is located in the middle of winter, with strong soil Qi and weak kidney qi. Therefore, in terms of diet, it is advisable to reduce sweetness and increase bitterness, supplement the heart and help the lung, and regulate the kidney. The so-called "three nine make up one winter", but remember not to make up a lot when it's cold. In the diet, you can eat more mutton, beef, sesame, walnut, almond, melon seeds, peanuts, club seeds, pine nuts, raisins and so on, or you can combine the medicinal diet for tonic. Secondly, experts remind that eating spicy, greasy and cool food in winter is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of human body, and for the three high patients, it will aggravate the development of the disease and seriously affect the health of the body.