It's raining heavily, but it's not very cold. A slight cold has arrived.

Slight cold is the 23rd solar term in 24 solar terms and the 5th solar term in winter. Cold air is cold for a long time, and slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. It's the end of February and the beginning of ugly month. The time is between 65438 and1October 5-7, and the sun is at 285. For China, it's around March 9th, and the slight cold marks the beginning of the coldest day of the year.

Solar term summary

The weather characteristics of slight cold are: it gets cold, but it is not cold yet. As the saying goes, "cold is in March 9th", and because the March 9th in the middle of winter is basically within this solar term, there is a saying that "slight cold is better than severe cold".

Slight cold custom

In daily life, besides paying attention to the daily warmth, people are busy writing Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles, going to the market to buy New Year pictures, colored lights, firecrackers, incense and so on, and preparing for the Spring Festival one by one. In terms of diet, mutton hot pot, sugar-fried chestnuts and baked sweet potatoes have become the fashion of Xiaohan. As the saying goes, "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year", which is the practice of eating mutton to regulate the body in winter.

Eat vegetables and rice

During the slight cold season, old Nanjing people usually cook and cook. The content of vegetable rice is different. It is very useful to cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and then chop some ginger with glutinous rice. Very delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge.

polished glutinous rice

Traditionally, Han Xiao eats glutinous rice in the morning, usually 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, fry peanuts, add some chopped onions, and mix with rice. The slight cold is due to the strong rust smell and weak kidney qi in the middle of winter. Therefore, the diet should be sweetened and bitter, nourishing the heart and lungs, and nourishing the kidneys. But remember not to make it up when you have a slight cold.

Mutton Soup

In the mild cold season, it is a good time to eat mutton for tonic. Mutton has the function of warming yang and tonifying deficiency, while astragalus is warm, which has the functions of tonifying yang and benefiting qi, consolidating exterior and stopping sweating. Hu Aishan is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It can strengthen the spleen, nourish the stomach, tonify the kidney and solidify the essence. It is a good warm tonic in cold winter. It is suitable for people who are usually weak and afraid of cold, with tepid limbs, mental fatigue and lack of qi and blood.

Phenology of slight cold solar terms

Yanbei town

Hometown, the meaning of the guide, the second sun, the geese will avoid the heat and return, now the hometown flies north, and after arriving in beginning of spring, they all come back, and the birds will be angry.

Que Shi Chao

Magpie, magpie also; At the gate of the nest, every time it's too old, it starts to Tianyuan from the winter solstice, and the second sun has won the solar terms in the coming year. Magpies can make nests and know what to do.

The beginning of pheasant

Pheasant, a civilized bird, is also a sunny bird; Ye, male and female sing together, suddenly feeling the sun and the moon.