01. The origin of the great cold
The Great Cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms. As soon as the cold passes, the new year's solar terms will come back again, just as the so-called winter goes to spring.
Folk proverb cloud: "Small cold, big cold, no wind to cool." "This festival is in the 39th and 49th periods, when the cold wave is frequent in the south, which is the coldest period of the year. In some parts of the continent, the big cold is not as cold as the small cold, but in the southern coastal area of the mainland, the lowest temperature of the year will still appear in the cold season.
02. Folk customs
"Delicious"
"Wax" is a method of handling meat food, which refers to the meat marinated in salt or sauce, and then placed in a ventilated place to air dry. As early as the "Zhou Li" and "Zhou Yi", there are already records about "meat fu" and "wax flavor". December at the end of the year is called "Wax Moon", when the weather is less cloudy, and less rain and dry, blowing the northwest monsoon, meat is not easy to deteriorate and there are not many mosquitoes, the most suitable for air drying to make wax flavor. Wax moon has been nearly the year, for the New Year Wax New Year dish.
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Dust removal
Also known as "removing Chen" and "dusting", it is a big cleaning: "every house brushes the wall, sweeps away the ominous". Dust removal is generally carried out on the 23rd and 24th of the Waxing Moon, that is, the "sacrifice stove" day.
03. Great Cold Poetry