Xiao Han is the penultimate of the twenty-four solar terms. Although it is called Xiao Han, it is actually the coldest time of the year, and only a few years of big cold will be colder than Xiao Han. Therefore, it is often said that a small cold is better than a big cold.
The weather is extremely cold, and the north-south region spans a large area, forming different production and agricultural affairs and living customs.
In terms of agricultural affairs, most of the northern areas have no work in the fields, and they must carry out winter breaks, and the main task is to do a good job in the work of vegetable cellars, livestock houses to keep warm, and make fertilizer and accumulate fertilizer at home. In the southern region, the small cold season needs to do a good job in oilseed rape ditching, wheat topdressing and other work, if it encounters strong cold air, sprinkle grass and wood ash, crop straw or cover manure in the field to help crops survive the coldest season.
In life, in addition to paying attention to daily warmth, the taste of entering the small cold year is getting stronger, and people are busy writing Spring Festival, cutting window flowers, rushing to buy New Year paintings, lanterns, firecrackers, incense, etc., and successively preparing for the Spring Festival.
Then, the question that everyone is most concerned about comes, what are we going to eat on this day?
China's territory is vast, different regions have different traditional foods to resist the cold, next please follow the pace of Xiaobian, feel the excitement of the small cold food in different regions of our country!
1. Laba porridge
As the name suggests, Laba porridge is a porridge made of eight kinds of raw materials, and there are many ingredients for laba porridge, mainly glutinous rice, rice, black rice, red beans, peanuts, millet, chestnuts, raisins, guiyuan, lotus seeds, brown sugar, nut crushed, etc. The ingredients and tastes used in the north and south are not the same. Eating a bowl of hot porridge with rich ingredients in such a cold festival as Xiao Han can not only boost appetite, but also warm the stomach and drive away the cold, and play a role in driving away the cold.
2. Lamb
The cold is the coldest time of the year, people are easily invaded by wind and cold, and the fastest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton coat, but a bowl of steaming lamb soup.
In the evening, about three or five friends and friends, sit in groups and sit on the lamb, all kinds of ingredients are under the pot, lively churning, a mouthful of meat fat, a mouthful of vegetables and clear.
This taste is so tempting that it has become the thought of master Ji Xianlin: "At six o'clock, we went to Dong'an Market, and I invited them to eat shabu lamb, which has not been eaten for more than ten years. ”
3. Eat yellow sprouts
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 will be cut off the stems and leaves, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about two inches off the ground, covered with manure, do not breathe, eat after half a month, crisp and tender, to make up for the lack of winter vegetables. The living standards of modern people have improved, and all kinds of vegetables and meat are available in all seasons, and they are no longer worried about the scarcity of winter vegetables as in the past.
4. Eat vegetable rice
In ancient times, Nanjing people attached great importance to Xiaohan, but with the change of the times, it has gradually faded, and now people can only find a little trace from life.
To Xiao Han, old Nanjing generally cooks vegetable rice to eat, the content of the rice is not the same, with short-footed yellow green vegetables and bacon slices, sausage slices or plate duck diced, and then chopped with some ginger grains and glutinous rice cooked together, very fragrant 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", and even comparable to Laba porridge.
5. Boiling paste
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic records: "Nourish the yang in spring and summer, and nourish the yin in autumn and winter." "In the winter collection of all things, this period of health care should also conform to the trend of all things to collect and nourish the internal organs." The cream can not only prevent and cure diseases, but also nourish the body, strengthen the physique, and is extremely popular in winter.
When it comes to the small cold season, it is also the busiest time for old Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine pharmacies, and the creams made in the winter are generally eaten. At this time, some people will boil a little more and eat until around the Spring Festival.
6. Sticky rice
In guangdong, it is a traditional custom to eat sticky rice in the morning to drive away the cold in the morning.
Folk tradition believes that glutinous rice has a higher sugar content than rice, and the whole body feels warm after eating, which is conducive to driving away cold. The small cold season is a good time for people to improve their physical fitness and strengthen food supplements.
In order to avoid being too sticky, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice, the bacon and sausage are chopped, fried, peanuts and rice are fried, add some crushed green onions, and mixed in rice to eat.
7. Plum blossom porridge
Plum blossom porridge is a traditional snack in Guangdong Province
"Green calyx petals, snow boiled porridge", plum blossom spring aroma, the fragrance is naturally the most suitable for porridge.
The rice is boiling, boiling until it boils, and the plum blossoms are turned off, and the fragrance of flowers is infused into the rice fragrance, even if there is no snow water, it is warm and sweet enough.
After the little cold, the geese moved back and the magpies built their nests. The Chinese between the calendar and the years is also living a period of looking back and intertwining with forward-looking days. Although the "hit workers" who came out early and returned late were still in a hurry, they knew in their hearts that the grand festival was not far ahead, and with expectations, the pace of running seemed to be lighter.