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We will usher in the winter solstice
As the saying goes, "The winter solstice is as big as the year, and the world is a small reunion"
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I wish you all a healthy winter solstice!
The winter solstice, also known as the Sun South Solstice, the Winter Festival, the Asian Year, etc., has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only an important festival in the twenty-four solar terms, the beginning of the "number nine cold days", and also the traditional ancestor worship festival of Chinese folk.
On the day of the winter solstice, how do people in the Yangtze River Delta eat, how to wear, and how to raise?
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See how the weather is worn
Shanghai
Although Shencheng has met the threshold for entering winter for four consecutive days, today's warm "winter solstice" has basically made this wave of cold waves impact into winter fruitless.
The lowest temperature this morning is more than 8 °C in the urban area, and the suburbs have generally risen to around 3 to 7 °C. At noon, the sun is shining and the wind is not strong, and the maximum temperature will quickly rise to around 16 °C.
However, there is a new wave of cold air on Saturday, and Shencheng will once again hit the winter, which also set the record for the latest winter entry in nearly 30 years.
Jiangsu
This week, there was a precipitation process in Jiangsu Province from the night of the 23rd to the 24th, and it is necessary to pay attention to the phase conversion of rain and snow along the river and southern Jiangsu on the night of the 24th, and it is possible to turn into light sleet or light snow. This will be the first snow since the beginning of winter in Jiangsu, but the amount of snow is not large and the duration is short.
Affected by strong cold air on the 24th and 25th, Jiangsu will have a windy cooling weather, the minimum temperature of 48 hours will drop by 10 to 12 °C, and the minimum temperature will appear on the morning of the 26th.
chekiang
The maximum temperature in Zhejiang today is expected to be around 16 ° C, which is not at all like the winter solstice.
In fact, a strong cold air is ready to go, this Sunday the minimum temperature in the main urban area of Hangzhou is expected to fall to 0 ° C to -3 ° C, in addition, according to the latest forecast released by the Zhejiang Meteorological Observatory yesterday, this week is more likely to usher in the first snow of this winter in Zhejiang.
Anhui
It is expected that on the 20th and 22nd, Anhui Province will be dominated by sunny to cloudy weather. Affected by strong cold air, from the night of the 23rd to the 25th, there is a precipitation and strong cooling weather process in the province, and the average temperature of the province will drop by 8 to 10 °C, and the local decline can reach more than 10 °C, of which there is sleet or snow in the Dabie Mountains and the Anhui South Mountains on the 24th and 25th.
See folklore how to eat
As a festival that lasts for a long time, the winter solstice naturally has many interesting customs.
On the day of the winter solstice, many places have the custom of worshipping ancestors and holding family feasts. It is often the family who first goes to the grave or holds a folk ancestor worship ceremony at home. At noon and in the evening, a sumptuous feast is cooked and a reunion dinner is eaten together.
The dishes of the family banquet are also very grand, usually there are fish, meat, river fresh, and at least the soup dumplings that cannot be done in winter, "round" means "reunion" and "consummation", and eating tangyuan on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice round".
Tang Yuan arrived in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, and changed its name: Huang Yuan. Soybeans are fried and ground into soybean flour, add brown sugar and sesame seeds and mix well; glutinous rice flour and water are kneaded into a powder ball, picked into the size of a ping-pong ball, rolled into a ball, gently flattened into boiling water, and then rolled in a circle in soybean flour, such an action is called "beating" in Taizhou dialect.
In addition, in Jiangnan Water Town, there is also the custom of the whole family eating red bean sticky rice on the night of the winter solstice, which means disaster prevention and disease prevention with red beans.
People in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, like to eat rice cakes on the day of the winter solstice to celebrate, and every winter solstice, they will make cakes to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. In terms of diet, three meals will make different flavors of rice cakes, sesame powder mixed with sugar rice cakes, meat fried rice cakes, snow bamboo shoot soup rice cakes and so on. Hangzhou people eat rice cakes on the winter solstice, which means that they are old and tall.
Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, also has the custom of drinking "winter wine". Winter winemaking is a type of rice wine, brewed with osmanthus flowers. On the night of the winter solstice, everyone drinks delicious winter wine and tastes various brine dishes such as marinated beef, and the home is full of laughter.
In addition, Jiangsu Yangzhou, Nantong, Wuxi, Zhenjiang and other places eat tangyuan, Suqian eat dumplings, Changzhou eats "shallot tuk tofu", Taizhou eats braised pork, Yancheng eats pumpkin, old Nanjing drinks chicken soup...
In the winter solstice custom of Ningbo, Zhejiang, a bowl of hot, fragrant, sweet sweet potato soup "must have a name." "Fan" and "flip" homophonous, in the understanding of Ningbo people, eating sweet potatoes on the winter solstice is to "turn" all the bad luck of the past year; the soup fruit is like tangyuan, with the meaning of "reunion and consummation".
In Anqing, Anhui, there is a saying: the winter solstice eats pumpkin, and there is no need to treat the eye doctor in the next year. On the day of the winter solstice, the streets and alleys are filled with the aroma of pumpkin.
The method is also very simple, first peel and remove the pumpkin, wash and cut into pieces, cook it and mash it into a puree, then add dried glutinous rice flour and seasoning, knead the pumpkin puree into a rice ball shape by hand, steam it over fire or fry it in oil, all have a different flavor.
See how to raise cold
Cold weather and do not do a good job of warmth, will cause a lot of physical discomfort, and even induce diseases, such as dizziness, frostbite, rhinitis, cold hands and feet, cervical spondylosis and so on.
When it comes to coping with the cold and keeping warm, the first thing everyone thinks of is to add clothes to the body, but where can the clothes be added to really play a role? Pan Xiaohong, director of the Department of Disease Treatment at Xuzhou City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Jiangsu Province, commented: "The key is to protect the head, feet and back. ”
But while keeping warm, remember to moisturize! After entering the heating season, the cold wind whistles outside, but the interior is warm as spring. However, while heating brings warmth to people, it also brings a lot of trouble, such as dry throat, sore throat, dry skin, dizziness, etc. These symptoms are often referred to as "heating sickness".
Therefore, in order to prevent "heating disease", in addition to humidifying the external environment, it is more important to add water and electrolytes to the body and enhance the body's immunity. In addition, when heating, the window should be opened in time for ventilation to maintain the normal circulation of air in the room.
Remember to go home early on the winter solstice
Have a meal with your family
Remember to add more clothes when it's cold
Source | Synthesis
Edit | Huang Jiaqi