Text: Great White
The cold snow has not subsided, and the closed house cannot come out,
Poor Cut Cloud Crown, bureau this room for knees.
The Great Cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms of the year, which also means that the Lunar Year of the Ox is coming to an end, and the Year of the Tiger is coming. Every year around January 20 of the Gregorian calendar, when the solar yellow longitude reaches 300 °, it is the time when the great cold arrives.
Similar to Xiao Han, these two solar terms are intended to indicate the degree of coldness of the weather, and people can clearly feel the sudden change of the weather again before and after the arrival of the big cold day, which is especially obvious in the south.
"1929 does not shoot, 3949 ice walks", and the great cold is just between the three nine and the four nine, which once again confirms the cold degree of the great cold, why usually at the end of the year the weather will become so cold? Parents and friends may wish to use specific geographical knowledge to explain to children, if conditions permit, you can also prepare a globe for your child.
It is true that since the winter solstice, the altitude of the sun in our northern hemisphere will be the lowest in the whole year, and then the direct point of the sun will slowly move northward for a period of time, and during this time, the direct point of the sun will be in the southern hemisphere. The northern hemisphere is not enough heat, and the heat absorbed during the day is less than the heat emitted at night, which will make the northern hemisphere colder and colder, and the cold is the critical value of the year's cold. The last two solar terms of the year are the ones with the least rain.
With the cold approaching and the weather getting colder, what customs and delicacies can be introduced to children?
The great cold ushers in the new year
In the folk, people habitually think that the arrival of the great cold is the Spring Festival, because the arrival of the next festival means the beginning of the new year, so people habitually call it "the great cold to welcome the New Year".
Generally in the cold, the habits of the southern and northerners are a little different, because the south will be colder, so people always think about how to carry out cold measures on this day.
They will make a variety of delicacies on the day of the big cold to keep out the cold, there is a folk saying that it is "big cold and small cold, windproof and cold, drink ginseng and astragalus wine early, and serve the yellow pills of The Chrysanthemum in the evening". In the north, people are thinking about new year-related matters, such as pickling food, preparing New Year goods, decorating the home, etc.
During the period from the cold to the Lunar New Year, a series of activities are held to prepare for the arrival of the New Year, and people also list these customs and habits simply as: glutinous, indulgent drinking, making teeth, sweeping dust, pasting windows, rushing marriage, bathing, pasting new year red and other activities.
The arrival of the great cold is also the strongest festival of the year, what specific food will everyone prepare to eat on this day? Through the following introduction, parents may wish to take their children to taste the taste of various foods under the cold season.
Eight treasure rice
In the cold food, people are more inclined to winter glutinous rice, glutinous rice taste sweet, sexual temperature than the daily consumption of rice sugar content will be much higher, so the cold day to eat glutinous rice has a corresponding tonic effect.
And glutinous rice products, the most famous in the south is the eight treasure rice, the glutinous rice steamed, and then accompanied by sugar juice lard, osmanthus and red dates, lotus seeds, guiyuan, etc. is a plate of delicious eight treasure rice, the elderly and children love to eat, but also in the cold winter to nourish the human body, play a role in cold and warm.
Eat rice cakes
Many places have the habit of "beating rice cakes" years ago, and the old and young masters beat the delicious rice cakes successfully one by one, and the guests will be prepared with various rice cakes to entertain them in the first month.
Like the eight treasure rice, they are all delicacies made of glutinous rice, which can be very good to catch the cold in the human body, and it is warm to eat. Therefore, in the north, rice cakes will also be called "cold cakes". In addition, the meaning of rice cake is also very good, people will feel that eating rice cake on this cold day to take the next year step by step, the meaning of peace every year.
Drink chicken soup
Different from the summer is that people's diet will also happen a lot, for example, our table will have a lot of steaming soup, the cold is in the stage of three or nine into the four nine, in the traditional sense, people have a saying called "one nine a chicken", so the big cold day there are still many people will continue this tradition, stew chicken soup, and then with a variety of supplemental ingredients, the cold winter moon to drink a bite is really delicious.
Tail Tooth Festival
What are "tail teeth"? There may be many people do not know, the so-called "tail tooth" is china's "tooth" of the land gong, ancient people rely on heaven and earth, their reverence for the land is much heavier than modern people, therefore, every second and sixteenth day of the first year they will worship the land gong, people will call the white land gong "tooth".
Every year on the second of February, the worship of the land is called "head tooth", and the sixteenth day of the waxing moon will be called "tail tooth", and on this day, those who do business outside are to set up a feast, which must include white chopped chicken.
There is a folk saying that the head of the white chopped chicken used for worship is facing whomever the boss wants to fire the next year. But usually the boss will turn the chicken head towards himself, so that everyone can enjoy the food with confidence and have a safe new year when they go home.
This kind of cold "tail tooth festival" has slowly faded out of people's eyeliner so far, but it is still continuing in china's southern Fujian and other regions, such as Fujian and Taiwan.
After the great cold, the world's climate will also undergo some obvious changes, everything is hidden in winter, although the ice and snow, the cold and frozen, but the new year will arrive, accompanied by people's hope for the new year will also come.
The cold solstice coincides with the end of the year, and everyone can feel the warm feeling in their hearts, because the annual reunion day is coming, and people's hearts are full of festive feelings. The busy pace is only so that the new year can stop and get together with the family.
At the end of the year, the cold, with the children to go home to see the family, although the epidemic at the end of the year advocates the New Year in place, but I believe that no matter where, no matter when, we can live up to the hot days, live up to every festivity in the fireworks in the world.
The great cold season is a feast waiting for spring, and I hope that every family can usher in their own new spring after walking through this winter.