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What's good for health preservation in the winter of 2019? Origin and origin of the great cold solar

As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, 24 solar terms had formed a complete solar term system, and then gradually improved with the passage of time, and passed on to this day. In a few days, it will be cold. So what are the customs of the cold solar term? Today, I'd like to learn something about it with sihai.com.

The great cold is one of the 24 solar terms. Every year around January 20, when the sun reaches the Yellow longitude 300 deg., it is the great cold. It means that the weather is extremely cold. It's the coldest season of the year before and after the big cold. The cold is just after September 3 and at the beginning of September 4. As the saying goes: 'walk on the ice in September 419'.

The winter time of 2019 is Sunday, January 20, 2019.

The origin of great cold

It means the weather is extremely cold. "General examination of timing & middot; Tianshi" quoted "sanliyizong": "the cold is the middle, which is shaped in the small cold, so it is called the big & hellip; hellip; cold reverse pole, so it is called the big cold. 'at this time, the cold wave is frequent in the south, which is a cold period in most areas of our country in a year. The wind is strong, the temperature is low, and the snow on the ground does not melt, presenting a cold scene of ice, snow and freezing. Dahan is the last solar term of China's 24 solar terms. After the severe cold, it ushers in a new year's solar term cycle.

In ancient China, the cold was divided into three periods: first, chicken milk; second, bird disease; third, water and strong stomach. 'that is to say, chickens can be hatched in the cold solar term; while birds like hawks and falcons are in a state of strong predatory ability, circling in the air to find food to supplement the body's energy to resist the cold; in the last five days of the year, the ice in the water area has been frozen to the middle of the water, and the most solid and thick.

Cold custom

1. Welcome Kitchen God

The commonly used kitchen god couplet also often says' heaven says good things, return to the palace to bring good luck. 'and' heaven says good things, and the lower world is safe. 'words like that. In addition, on the evening of the new year's Eve, the kitchen king will come to celebrate the new year with the gods. On that day, there must be a ceremony of "picking up the kitchen stove" and "picking up the gods". So there is a saying that "go on the 23rd, come at five o'clock on the first day of the new year". At the end of the year, the kiosk selling New Year pictures also sells images of the kitchen god, so that they can be posted in the "kitchen reception" ceremony. The kitchen god in the image is a beautiful young man, so there is a saying in the north of China that "men don't worship the moon, women don't sacrifice the kitchen" to show that men and women are not close to each other. There are also places where there is no such a saying for the joint sacrifice of the kitchen Lord and the kitchen King's grandmother.

2. Eating Laba porridge

15 days after the mild cold is the severe cold, which is also the last solar term in the 24 solar terms of the whole year. Although it's cold at this time, it won't be as cold as it was during the winter solstice because it's near spring. At this time of year, people are busy removing the old and decorating the new, marinating the new year's food and preparing the new year's goods, because the most important festival of the Chinese people -- the Spring Festival is coming. There is also a very important day for northerners -- Laba, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people boil a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with grains, peanuts, chestnuts, dates, lotus seeds and so on, which is an indispensable staple food in Chinese New Year.

3. Welcome the new year in the cold

The solar term of great cold often coincides with the end of the year. Therefore, in such solar terms, in addition to complying with the solar terms to do farm work, we should also rush for the new year -- to catch up with the new year's collection, to buy new year's goods, to write spring couplets, to prepare various sacrificial offerings, to sweep away dust and clean things, to get rid of old cloth and new clothes, to prepare new year's goods, to marinate various kinds of sausages, bacon, or fried chicken, duck, fish and other kinds of new year's dishes. At the same time, we offer sacrifices to our ancestors and various gods and pray for good weather in the coming year. In the old cold season, there was also the shadow of people competing to buy sesame straw on the street. On New Year's Eve, sesame stalks are sprinkled on the road outside the walk for children to trample on, which is homophonic and auspicious. At the same time, it is homophonic and auspicious for children to trample on the year. At the same time, it is homophonic and auspicious for children to trample on the year. At the same time, it is homophonic and auspicious for children to have a happy new year. This also makes the festival more meaningful.

4. Drink chicken soup

In winter, Nanjing people eat more stew and soup. It has been around the fourth and ninth lunar calendar. The traditional diet of 191 chickens is still respected by many people's families. Most Nanjing people choose the old hen, or stew alone, or add ginseng, wolfberry, black fungus and other stews. It's really a pleasure to drink chicken soup in cold winter. In the month of December, old Nanjing still likes to make soup. There are many kinds of dishes in different places, and the methods are different. For example, the soup in the north is thick and thick, the soup in the south is light and delicate, while the soup in Nanjing takes the advantage of the North and South flavor, which is neither too thick or light, nor too salty or sweet. Another reason why Nanjing likes eating soup in winter is that it's easy to get materials, simple, precious and cheap. Minced meat, tofu, yam, agaric, yam, pickled mustard, etc. can be made into a hot soup with coriander, white pepper, and hot all over.

5. Caudal offering

According to the custom of our country, especially in the countryside, when the 24 solar terms are big and cold, people are busy getting rid of the old, making new dishes and preparing new year's products. There are many important folk customs and festivals during the period from cold to spring. For example, the tail and teeth sacrifice, kitchen sacrifice and new year's Eve, sometimes even the biggest festival of Spring Festival in China is also in this solar term. The great cold solar term is full of joy and joy. It is a happy and relaxed solar term. The tail teeth originated from the custom of worshiping the land to make 'teeth'. The so-called second February is the first tooth. In the future, every second and sixteenth day of the first lunar month, we have to make 'teeth' until the 16th of the lunar month, which happens to be the tail tooth. The tail teeth are the same as those of February 2. They are eaten with spring cakes (called runbing in the South). On this day, the traders will set up a banquet, and the chicken cutting is an indispensable dish at the banquet. It is said that whoever faces the chicken head means that the boss will fire him next year. So now some bosses tend to face the chicken's head towards themselves, so that employees can enjoy the delicacies at ease and have a safe and stable year after returning home.