What are the customs of slight cold?
The characteristic of slight cold is that it will gradually get cold, and it is not the coldest time yet. The "March 9" in the middle of winter is basically within this solar term, so there is a traditional saying that "a slight cold wins a great cold". This is because during the winter solstice last year, the surface got the least sunshine and heat, but it was supplemented by the heat of deep soil, so it was not the coldest time of the year. From the solstice after beginning of winter, the heat in the deep soil was also consumed before and after the "March 9th". Although the sunshine and heat increased slightly, it still made ends meet, so the lowest temperature in the whole year appeared.
The traditional custom activities of Xiaohan
1. plum blossom exploration
At this time, Chimonanthus praecox has blossomed and red berries are in bud. Choose the excellent scenic spots with plum blossoms and enjoy them carefully. There is a lonely and elegant fragrance in your nose, and your mind will be refreshed and excited.
Step 2 perform on ice
In the northern provinces of China, after winter, it is said that the ice age will be very long, from 1 1 to April of the following year. Between spring and winter, the river is frozen and thick, and sleds are needed to walk on the ice. The sled is pulled by a horse, a dog or a rider, who holds a wooden pole and pushes it forward like a gondola.
In areas with extremely thick ice surface, most of them have ice beds for pedestrians to play with, and some still race on the ice with skates, which was called ice play in ancient times. "History of the Song Dynasty" has: "The story stays in the house, but fortunately it is in the backyard, making an ice show." "Textual research on the old news of the Forbidden City" records: "West of Xihuamen is Xiyuanmen, which is called Xiyuanmen. The entrance is Taiye Pool. In winter, Chen Bing plays, studies and gains. " According to the old custom of Beiping in Yiqingge Miscellaneous Copy: "Those who do good deeds in Jishuitan in Ming Dynasty must have more than ten beds, with a laundry list of wine vessels, and it is also fun to spread them on them and drink them in ice."
3. Nanjing: Eat vegetable rice
In ancient times, Nanjing people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and now people can only look for traces from life.
When it's a slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks. The content of vegetable rice is very different. It's delicious with short-legged yellow vegetables and sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chopped ginger and glutinous rice. 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.
Speaking of the slight cold season, it is also the busiest time for old Chinese medicine practitioners and Chinese pharmacy. Generally in winter, all the paste is almost eaten. At this time, some people will cook more and eat it before and after the Spring Festival.
4. Mutton soup
Residents' daily diet also pays more attention to warm foods, such as mutton and dog meat, among which mutton soup is the most common, and some restaurants also provide angelica and ginger mutton soup. In recent years, some traditional winter mutton dishes have reappeared on the dining table, reappearing the cold winter eating customs in Nanjing.
As the saying goes, "a slight cold is cold, and it turns into a hockey." Nanjing people have a set of physical exercise methods with regional characteristics in the slight cold season, such as skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, rolling iron rings, squeezing oil residue (squeezing each other's walls), fighting cocks (propping up on one foot and fighting independently) and so on. If it snows, you will cheer more, have a snowball fight and make a snowman. You will soon be warm and your blood vessels will be unobstructed.
5. Guangdong: Eat glutinous rice
Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped onions and mix in rice.
keep fit
Chinese medicine believes that the coldest solar term is also the most prosperous time. From the point of view of diet health, we should pay special attention to eating more warm food in our daily diet to supplement our health and prevent the invasion of cold climate. The hot food in daily food mainly includes trout, pepper, cinnamon, pepper and so on. Warm foods include glutinous rice, sorghum rice, sword bean, leek, fennel, coriander, shepherd's purse, asparagus, mustard, pumpkin, ginger, onion, garlic, apricot, peach, jujube, longan, litchi, papaya, cherry, pomegranate, dark plum, citron and chestnut. Especially in the slight cold season, it is a good time to eat spicy hot pot and braised mutton.
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