On January 20, the Great Cold Festival was ushered in. The great cold is the last festival of the year, which coincides with the time of the "four nines" on the ice. The great cold comes at the end of the year, winter goes to spring, and once the great cold passes, a new cycle begins.
Big cold, like small cold, is also a solar term that indicates the degree of coldness of the weather, and big cold is the meaning of cold weather to the extreme. The so-called "big cold and small cold, frozen into a clump". In the cold season, high winds, low temperatures, rain and snow frequent visits, cold waves go south, it is easy to form disastrous weather. The ancients thought that the great cold was the coldest day of the year, but it was not. Since 1951, when the mainland had meteorological records, 42% of the years were colder and only 28% were colder. In addition, the coldest weather of the year occurs in small colds more than in large colds. However, the continent is vast, and there are differences in the climate between the north and the south, and there is no small cold in the northern region, but for most of the south, the coldest is in the cold festival.
There are three seasons for the great cold: one is for the chicken to start milking, the second is for the birds to be sick, and the third is for the water to be strong. The chickens began to hatch, the birds of prey became more ferocious, and the ice froze harder and thicker.
After the great cold, the spring is established, that is, the new year's solar cycle is ushered in, and the new year is also just around the spring, so the taste of the great cold is gradually stronger. The Great Cold Festival is full of joy and joy during the festival, and it is a cheerful and relaxed festival. During this festival, people began to busily remove the old and decorate the new, pickle the wax flavored New Year dishes, and prepare the New Year goods, because Chinese the most important festival, the Spring Festival, is coming. As the last cold festival at the end of the year, although it is the season of agricultural leisure, everyone is busy with the New Year, which is the custom of "welcoming the New Year with the great cold".
The so-called "Great Cold New Year" means that during the period from the Great Cold to the Lunar New Year, there will be a series of activities in the folk, which can be summarized as at least ten major customs, namely: "glutinous", "indulgent drinking", "making teeth", "sweeping dust", "pasting windows", "waxing", "rushing marriage", "taking advantage of the ruins", "bathing", "pasting the new year red" and so on.
Due to the intersection of the great cold and the spring, the diet also conforms to the changes of the seasons, and it is still mainly based on warm supplementation. Winter and March is the season when life is lurking and everything is hiding, at this time, the body's yin and yang dissipation and metabolism are also in a fairly slow time, so at this time you should go to bed early and get up late, do not easily disturb the yang qi, do not overwork everything, and make the consciousness hidden deep inside to avoid impatience and anger. The great cold is one of the six solar terms in winter, when the weather is extremely cold, so it is called the great cold. The health of the great cold should focus on Tibet, which means that people should control their spiritual activities during this period, keep their spirit quiet, and hide the gods inside and not expose themselves, so that it is conducive to spending the winter in peace.
(Original title: Today's Great Cold | The last festival of the year arrives, the cold pole warms up, and welcomes the New Year! ）
Source: Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Luo Qianwen Hu Decheng Edited by Yang Pan
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