Great Cold: Spring is born every time it is cold
Ruixue turns the clouds, and the trillion should be abundant
The cold pole will end, and the spring will be full of anger
Great cold
The weather was extremely cold. At this time, the cold wave is frequently moving south, which is the cold moment of "walking on the ice in three nines and forty-nine" in most parts of the mainland, showing a cold scene of ice and snow and freezing.
Winter goes to spring, and once the cold passes, it is a new reincarnation.
The ancients were in the winter leisure period after the great cold, so there was plenty of time to leave the old and welcome the new, which formed many traditional customs and has been passed down to this day. For example, indulgence, glutinous food, tail tooth sacrifice, marriage, market, dust sweeping, window paste, bathing, offering the king of the stove for the New Year, etc., until the Chinese New Year's Eve night vigil. Basically covering all aspects of clothing, food, shelter and transportation, it is to celebrate the harvest of this year, to comfort the ancestors, and to pray for smooth wind and rain in the coming year, and peace and smoothness. Every year on the day of the great cold, different food customs are spread throughout the country, among which the glutinous and tail tooth festivals are more widely known because of their local and solar terms.
Waxy
Glutinous food, as the name suggests, is to eat food made of glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is the most important raw material used to make sticky desserts, such as rice dumplings, rice cakes, rice dumplings, tangyuan, mash and so on. These specialties, which have been passed down for thousands of years, are still popular today. Glutinous rice contains high starch and about 7% grain protein, while glutinous rice also contains some minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and a variety of vitamins such as vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, folic acid and other nutrients.
However, glutinous rice starch is almost all pullulan, compared to ordinary rice, glutinous rice has a higher glycemic production index, so diabetes and prediabetes patients should not eat more. In addition, glutinous rice is often caused by cooking methods with high oil and high sugar, such as rice dumplings, hemp balls, fried cakes, glutinous rice chicken, etc., and it is not advisable to consume too much each time.
Tail Tooth Festival
The tail tooth festival is a custom in some places in the south of the mainland, mainly popular in the southeast coast, especially in southern Fujian. "Tooth" is a Chinese folk worship of the land god ceremony, the first two, sixteenth day of the month, worship the land god called "do tooth", also known as "do tooth sacrifice", in the old days in these two days there are meat dishes meat to eat, commonly known as a meal for "tooth sacrifice" is derived from this. The first two days of February are the first tooth making (sacrifice activities), called "cetuart festival", and the tooth making on December 16 at the end of the year is the last tooth of the year, so it is called "tail tooth festival". The "annual meeting" popular in modern enterprises is the relic of the tail tooth festival.
According to traditional customs, the whole family gathers together to "eat tail teeth", and the main food is moist bread and shaving buns. Run cake is made of bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, dried beans, garlic, tiger moss, peanut flour, tomato sauce and other food ingredients wrapped in a roll of bean sprouts (similar to spring cakes). The food in the bag is three layers of meat, pickles, dried bamboo shoots, coriander, peanut flour, etc., a bit like meat sandwich steamed buns. In addition, there are white chopped chicken, seafood and so on. Up to now, with the change of the times, the table has added special foods from all over the country, such as hot pot, chopped pepper fish head, called flower chicken, etc., the dishes are becoming more and more abundant, and the meaning of sacrifice at this time has been very light, which represents the meaning of rest and reunion after a hard year.
With the arrival of the great cold, the earth rejuvenation is not far away, everything is renewed, the earth is rejuvenated, the cold pole is warm and warm, and the no pole is tai lai~