"Little cold even big Lu, happy magpie to build a new nest." Today, we ushered in a small cold. "Moon Order Seventy-Two Waiting Solution" has clouds, "Xiao Han, December Festival." The cold at the beginning of the month is still small, so the clouds, the half of the month is big. ”
"Little cold" three weather
Xiao Han has three waits: one waits for the wild goose North Township, the second waits for the magpie to start nesting, and the third waits for the pheasant to start the pheasant.
In the first season, although the geese were still in the south for winter, they had sensed that the yang was about to rise, and the geese began to fly back to their hometowns from the south to the north;
In the second season, the magpies will brave the cold to start nesting, ready to breed offspring;
The "pheasant" in the third season is a pheasant, and the pheasant in the mountain also senses the yang and begins to chirp in search of a companion.
It can be seen that although the weather is cold, the creatures of nature can still sense the yang between heaven and earth in the ice and snow.
"Little cold" food customs
Such a cold festival, people must first pay attention to daily warmth, eat some hot, drink a little warm is essential. In terms of diet, shabu lamb hot pot, eating sugar fried chestnuts, and roasted white potatoes have become a small cold fashion. As the saying goes, "three nine make up for one winter, and there will be no pain in the coming year", which is the practice of eating mutton in winter to nourish the body.
According to the "Miscellaneous Records of Jinmen", there was a custom of eating yellow sprouts in the old days in Tianjin. Yellow sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin and are made from cabbage sprouts. After the winter solstice, the cabbage is cut off the stems and leaves, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about two inches off the ground, and properly covered, and eaten after half a month, crisp and tender, to make up for the lack of winter vegetables.
Old Nanjing people in Xiaohan generally cooked vegetables and ate rice. The contents of the rice are not the same, but they are cooked with short-legged yellow green vegetables and slices of bacon, sausage slices or plated duck, and then chopped with some ginger grains and glutinous rice, which is very delicious and delicious. Among them, short-legged yellow, sausage, and plate duck are all famous specialties of Nanjing, which can be described as a real "Nanjing rice".
In some places in Guangdong, glutinous rice is boiled and sautéed with ingredients such as wax flavor, green onions, and coriander are added to the rice. Wax flavor is a necessity for local sticky rice cooking, and because of its high fat content, it is considered to have a cold protection effect.
"Little cold" health
Luo Shuwei, a historian and researcher at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, suggested that health care should conform to the trend of natural collection, so that the essence is cohesive to moisten the five internal organs. Due to the "blood in the cold then coagulation", the elderly and infirm people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay special attention to daily cold protection and warmth. Young and middle-aged people should adhere to a regular life and appropriate physical exercise, "move in winter, do not make a big or small illness." Usually, we must maintain an optimistic and smooth mood, calm and worry, and spend a long cold winter happily.
Count nine cold days
Remember to add more clothes when you go out
Source| People's Network Poster: Shao Wenting, Shang Huiyuan, Song Jiayi, Jiang Jie, Zhang Liuwen, Copywriter: Wei Yanxing, Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency Reporter: Zhou Runjian, People's Daily Overseas Edition, Guangming Daily, etc
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