SEVERE COLD
Great cold season
The Great Cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms. The sun has a yellow longitude of 300 °; it is celebrated on January 20-21 of the Gregorian calendar. 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.
Three days of great cold
Wait for chicken milk
At this time, the chicks can be hatched, and they break out of their shells and start a new life, indicating new vitality;
The second migratory bird is fiercely ill
Falcons look down fiercely at the earth, looking for opportunities to catch food to fend off the cold;
Mizusawa belly is strong
Under the hard ice, a trickle awaits the arrival of spring.
Great cold customs
Glutinous food: it is the day of the great cold festival, the ancients popular to eat glutinous rice made of food;
Dust removal: it is a big cleaning, "every house brushes the wall, sweeps away the ominous", sweeps away the poor luck;
Paste window: that is, use new paper to frame the window, "paste the window, change the auspicious";
Drink chicken soup: The traditional 191 chicken food custom is still respected by many public families;
Making teeth: Also known as "making tooth sacrifices", it was originally a ritual to sacrifice the father-in-law of the land.
Great cold health
Go to bed early and get up late
In the cold season, in terms of living, it is still necessary to conform to the characteristics of winter hiding, go to bed early and get up late, and ensure sufficient sleep time to facilitate the potential of yang qi.
Protected from the cold and kept warm
In the cold season, the weather is cold and frozen, the cold and evil invade, it is easy to make the human body qi and blood epidemic poor, the blood veins and veins are urgent, so winter is the cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and joint pain, colds and other diseases of the season, keep warm has become extremely important.