What's the date of the great cold in 2019? It's the coldest season in many places. It's also the last solar term of the 24 solar terms. After the great cold, it's the spring of the next year. So when is the great cold? What kind of food should the great cold eat on this day?
The winter in 2019 is almost nine: the third day of the fourth and ninth day.
Winter time in 2019: 16:59:27, January 20, 2019
April 9, 2019: January 18-26, 2019
The cold is just after September 3 and at the beginning of September 4. The folk talk is walking on the ice. The cold is the extreme cold. In the cold season, the average temperature in most parts of southern China is 6 ℃ to 8 ℃, which is nearly 1 ℃ higher than that in the cold season. The proverb of "little cold and big cold" shows that the solar term of big cold is also a cold period of the year.
What are the customs and activities in the cold
Welcome the new year: the cold is the last solar term of the year. So people are going to be busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. As it is close to the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival in China, many important folk festivals, such as the kitchen sacrifice, new year's Eve and so on, are in the cold season.
Goods for the new year: 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 agricultural 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.
Wind and cold protection: there is an ancient saying in the folk that "cold, wind and cold protection, early drinking ginseng and Astragalus wine, late taking Qiju Dihuang Pill". In this season, we should eat more warm and cold food to prevent the invasion of wind and cold evil. The food with spicy and cold relief and spreading wind and cold in our daily diet includes ginger, shallot, pepper, prickly ash, cinnamon, etc.
What traditional food do you eat in the cold season
1. Glutinous rice
There is a cloud in the old saying: 'little cold, big cold, without wind, comes from cold'. It's a traditional custom to eat glutinous rice in the morning to dispel the cold. It is believed that glutinous rice has higher sugar content than rice, and the whole body feels warm after eating, which is good for expelling cold. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice has the effect of invigorating the middle and Qi, and it is the best choice to eat glutinous rice in the cold season. In addition, glutinous rice implies warmth. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, 'warm bamboo hat' is more auspicious.
2, 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.
3, rice cake
The custom of eating "Xiaohan cake" has a long history in Beijing. Xiaohan cake is a kind of New Year cake. Not only because its glutinous rice contains more sugar than rice, it feels warm all over the body after eating, and has the effect of warming and dispersing the wind and cold, moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen and stomach, but also because the common people choose to eat New Year cake on the day of "great cold", and the meaning of "new year high", with a good colorful head of auspiciousness, peace and progress every year. Therefore, in the old Beijing custom, on the cold day, the whole family eat rice cake, which not only has a auspicious taste, but also can dispel the chill on the body, so it is called "Xiaohan cake".
4. Babao rice
There is a folk saying that eating glutinous rice during the cold season, because glutinous rice can nourish the healthy qi of the human body. After eating it, the whole body will get hot, which plays a role in keeping out the cold, nourishing the stomach and nourishing the body. The typical food made of glutinous rice is Babao rice. Steamed glutinous rice, mixed with sugar, lard and osmanthus, and poured into the appliance with red dates, job's tears, lotus seeds, longan meat and other fruit ingredients, and then poured with sugar marinade. It tastes sweet and is a good holiday and hospitality.