When is the great cold in 2020?
Brief introduction of great cold
The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms, and it is called "Great Cold" when the sun reaches 300 degrees on October 20 at around 65438+/kloc-0 every year. Great cold refers to extremely cold weather. "Judge the time" quotes "Three Rites and Righteousness": "Great cold is the middle, shaped by slight cold, so it is called great ... extremely cold, so it is called great cold."
At this time, the cold wave goes south very frequently, which is the cold period in most parts of China in a year. At this time, not only the wind is strong, the temperature is low, but the snow on the ground does not melt, and it also presents a cold scene of ice and snow.
In ancient China, the Great Cold was divided into three stages: "One stage is chicken milk; Second, the symptoms of bird disease; Three times, the water is strong. " In other words, in the great cold solar terms, chicks can be hatched; For falcons such as eagles, they are in a state of strong predation ability at this time, hovering in the air to find food to supplement energy to resist the cold; In the last five days of the year, the ice in the water has frozen to the center of the water, and it is the strongest and thickest.
During the severe cold solar term, the atmospheric circulation is relatively stable, and the adjustment period of circulation is about 20 days. When this circulation is adjusted, there will often be a wide range of rain and snow weather and strong winds to cool down. When the west of 80 degrees east longitude is a long wave ridge and East Asia is a coastal trough, under the control of northwest wind and the influence of constantly supplemented cold air, there will be a phenomenon of sustained low temperature in China.
Cold traditional customs
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The commonly used kitchen god couplets often say, "God speaks well and goes back to the palace for good luck." And "Heaven speaks well, and the lower bound is safe." Something like that. In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will bring the gods to the world for the New Year, and there will be ceremonies of "receiving the kitchen" and "receiving the gods" on that day.
So there is a saying: "Go on the 23rd and come back on January15th". At the booth selling New Year pictures at the end of the year, the image of the kitchen god is also sold, so that it can be posted in the ceremony of "picking up the kitchen". The kitchen god in the image is a man with fine features, so there is a saying in northern China that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to the kitchen" to express the meaning that men and women don't give and receive. In some places, there is no such thing as a joint sacrifice between Kitchen God and Grandma Kitchen King.
Eat laba porridge
After the slight cold, 15 is a severe cold, which is also the last solar term in the 24 solar terms of the year. Although the weather is cold at this time, because it is close to spring, it will not be as cold as during the period from heavy snow to winter solstice. At this time, people are busy getting rid of old decorations, pickling New Year dishes and preparing new year's goods, because the Spring Festival, the most important festival for China people, is coming soon.
Northerners also have a very important day-Laba Festival, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with whole grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates and lotus seeds, which is an essential staple food for people in the New Year.