Slightly cold solar food
1, warming chicken soup
Old Nanjing also has the tonic habit of eating a chicken and an egg every September. Therefore, on the day of slight cold, chicken soup and eggs are indispensable on the table of the citizens. It is said that most of the nutrients in chicken bones and chicken will be dissolved in soup and easily absorbed by the human body when boiled slowly with slow fire. It is a good product for invigorating qi and enriching blood in winter and contains a lot of calcium.
2. Mutton
"Slight cold" is the coldest time of the year, and people are easily attacked by the cold. The quickest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton-padded coat, but a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm tonic food. If you cook it with some angelica, yam and carrot, and season it with green onions and ginger, it is recommended to eat it once a week, which will not get angry and make winter warm.
3. Laba porridge
During the slight cold solar term, there is an important folk custom in the "slight cold" solar term in diet, which is to eat "Laba porridge". The Chronicle of Yanjing records: "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea and peeled jujube paste. And dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and grapes for external use. Laba porridge is also eaten on Laba Festival after slight cold, and then the annual flavor becomes stronger and stronger.
Phenological characteristics of slight cold solar terms
The ancients in our country divided the fifteen days of the slight cold season into three periods: one was waiting for Yanbei Township; Second, magpies began to build nests; Three wait for the pheasant to start.
Although the temperature is low in the slight cold season, the yang has begun to sprout, and the geese move north along the yin and yang. At this time, magpies can be seen everywhere in the north. They feel the sun be the spirit and start to build nests. The word "pheasant" means singing, and pheasant sensed Yang's growth and began to sing.
Despite the slight cold, the beautiful "Twenty Hua Xinfeng" began with a plum blossom in the slight cold season. The Hua Xinfeng of slight cold solar terms is: plum blossom in the first phase, camellia in the second phase and daffodil in the third phase. Three kinds of flowers bloom one after another in the slight cold season.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Slight Cold