Today's Great Cold
"The reverse pole of the cold, so it is called the great cold"
"The Great Cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms, which is great cold when the Sun reaches 300° ecliptic longitude on January 20-21 of the Gregorian calendar."
In the I Ching, it is said that the heavens and the earth are intertwined, and all things are connected, and the poles are not extreme and tai lai, and the winter is exhausted and the spring is born. The season is cold, the lunar calendar is at the end of the year, and spring is not far away.
Prepare for the year
As soon as the cold season came, families began to rush to the New Year's market, buy New Year goods, write Spring Festival, cut new clothes, prepare sacrificial offerings, dust cleans, pickle New Year dishes, and so on.
Tail Tooth Festival
At the end of recent years, some places will offer genealogies, ancestral statues, tablets, etc. to the upper hall of the home, and place incense burners and offerings on the offering table. There are also some places that also worship the gods of heaven and land, and prostrate to the gods to pray for the coming year' smooth winds and rains and abundant grains.
Yawei is mostly a traditional folk festival in southern Fujian, but now the "yawei" of some enterprises and units refers to the annual meeting.
Health
Chinese medicine believes that during the cold season, the snow is frozen, everything is hidden, and the yang is lurking, which is a good time for the human body to "supplement", and the purpose of nourishing the yang and nourishing the yin can be achieved through diet and exercise.
Yunnan | bait pieces of rice cake
Yunnan Eighteen Monsters, "CangCang Call Bait Block" is one of them.
As one of the most common traditional delicacies in Yunnan, the selection of fragrant yunnan rice, steamed and beaten, kneaded into long strips of semi-finished products, the color is as white as snow, after burning, boiling, frying, brine, steaming, frying, different flavors, not tired of eating, in the cold day is naturally also essential.
Kunming people have a special love for bait blocks, from steaming and frying, evolving into a variety of tricks to eat bait blocks.
Fried bait block (big rescue)
"Big Rescue Drive" is one of the most famous traditional snacks in Tengchong City, Yunnan Province, and in September 2018, it was rated as one of the top ten classic dishes in Yunnan as "Chinese Cuisine".
According to legend, the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was very hungry on the way to western Yunnan, and when he was dying, a bowl of food made of bait, ham, eggs, and green vegetables saved the life of the Yongli Emperor, and since then the fried bait block has had the title of "Great Rescue".
Burn bait blocks
According to legend, because the prefect's yamen was burned down by fire for some reason, the prefect ordered that no fire should be made to cook for three months, and some people had a plan, not to open the fire to cook but to eat it. "Steamed rice noodles are used as bait", and roasted rice noodles have also become baked bait blocks.
Round and thin, the bait cake is softened and expanded under the charcoal fire, and then coated with your favorite sauce, which is a delicious snack.
For the people of Kunming, eating an early breakfast made of fritters, sauerkraut and potato shreds wrapped in baked bait blocks and brushed with a layer of salty or sweet sauce can be regarded as the beginning of the day.
Brine bait blocks/brine bait wires
The bait is cut into chunks or filaments, then fished out in hot water, added blanched peas, and seasoned with spicy seeds, crushed peanuts, sauerkraut, soy sauce, sugar and other spices, and mixed, which makes people's appetite increase.
Fried bait blocks
The fried bait is even easier to use, after the oil is hot, add the cut bait, fry until golden brown, sprinkle with chili noodles, and take a bite of the outer crisp and the inner sticky.
Boil the bait shreds
Small pot bait silk, rake meat bait silk, miscellaneous sauce bait silk...
The bait is cooked in a pot, add a pre-fried meat cap, sprinkle with some leeks, sauerkraut, and add various spices to get out of the pot. In winter, a steaming bowl of boiled bait is the best choice for many Kunming people to get an early breakfast.
Steam bait blocks
Freshly steamed bait, rice smells fragrant, dipped in honey, sugar, osmanthus flowers to eat, sweet and soft glutinous.
The Great Cold is the end of a four-season cycle, and it is also the beginning of another four-season cycle, just like the New Year, saying goodbye to the old year, and the new year begins. It's almost the New Year, are you looking forward to it in front of the screen? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area.