Traditional cuisine of the Little Cold Festival

Traditional food for the Little Cold Festival: glutinous rice, Laba porridge, bean sprouts, boiled rice, jiaozi mutton soup, and sugar-fried chestnuts.

1, glutinous rice: glutinous rice, because of its warm nature, is a cold-resistant food that people often eat in the slight cold season.

2. Laba porridge: Laba porridge is also a traditional mild cold food, which has the effect of expelling cold and benefiting qi.

3. Soybean sprouts: Soybean sprouts can supplement the nutrients needed by the human body in winter and are known as the first course of slight cold.

4. Hot rice: Hot rice is made of glutinous rice and various ingredients. It can be used as a staple food or as a snack. It is a common food in the slight cold season.

5. jiaozi and mutton soup: jiaozi and mutton soup are very popular winter delicacies in northern China. They can not only keep warm, but also provide rich nutrition.

6. Sugar-fried chestnuts: Sugar-fried chestnuts are popular snacks in autumn. Eating them in the mild cold season can not only supplement nutrition, but also add festive atmosphere.

Meteorological change

The weather characteristics of slight cold are: the weather is getting cold, but it is not cold yet. In the slight cold season, the direct point of the sun is still in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere is still in a state of loss. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so the temperature in the northern hemisphere continues to decrease. According to China's long-term meteorological records, the slight cold solar terms in the north are colder than the great cold solar terms, but for most areas in the south, the great cold solar terms are colder than the slight cold solar terms.

Among the slight cold solar terms, the East Asian trough is the strongest and most stable, the Mongolian cold high and Aleutian low are also the strongest and most stable, and the ridge scale of the westerly trough is the largest. The intensity of the west wind is the strongest, and the cooling process of cold air in the slight cold season is frequent, but not many of them reach the cold wave standard.