Beijing News (reporter Wang Jixin) "Li Dong Qing, a winter Ling; Li Dong Yin, a winter warm." According to the agricultural proverb, the clouds on the day of the establishment of winter indicate the temperature trend throughout the winter," for easy to remember, the ancients summed up the climatic characteristics into proverbs, and also gave an impressive story. Folklorist Wang Zuoyu told the Beijing News reporter.
According to climatology, the beginning of winter is marked by the average temperature falling below 10 °C for 5 consecutive days before winter is considered. Photo by Kong Bo
Why Li Dong wants to "respect the cold wife"
Who is Han Po? Why "respect the cold wife"?
According to folklorist Wang Zuoyu, according to legend, Han Po was Lu Ban's mother, and on this day of Li Dong, she saw that Lu Ban had not returned for a long time, so she stepped on the snow to go out to meet Lu Ban, unfortunately, she did not wait for Lu Ban, and froze to death in the snow. After the Jade Emperor knew about it, he made Lu Ban's mother a cold wife, in charge of the warmth and coldness of winter.
Thus, there is "li dong qing, one winter ling; li dong yin, one winter warm." " statement. This means that if the day of winter is sunny, han po will cut firewood in the netherworld, there is no firewood to burn in the world, the sky is cold and frozen, and vice versa, it is a warm winter. The ancients borrowed a story that taught people to remember and identify the temperature changes in winter.
Li Dong opened the food winter storage mode
According to climatology, the beginning of winter is marked by the average temperature falling below 10 °C for 5 consecutive days before winter is considered. In fact, China is a vast country, and winters everywhere do not all appear on the "Li Winter" day. The northernmost area of China, the Mohe River and the area north of the Daxing'anling Mountains, enters the winter in early September, while the winter in the Yangtze River Basin cannot really begin until around the time of the "light snow" festival.
Hao Qingqi, chairman of the Tianjin Urban Vegetable Garden Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative in the sixth village of Xinkou Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin, told reporters that in the countryside, since the beginning of the winter, it is necessary to dig cellars.
Winter is the best season to eat Chinese cabbage. Photo by Kong Bo
"There will be two digging here in Tianjin, one for storing cabbage and one for turnips." According to reports, the cellar used to store winter storage cabbage has imports and outlets and vents, and people should often enter the vegetable cellar, check the cabbage, and pick out the festering vegetable leaves, so the cabbage cellar space is larger. On the contrary, the radish cellar is a simple storage cellar, "find a riverbed beach, dig a moderately sized vegetable cellar, put the radish in, and wait until the New Year to take it out as fruit to eat." ”
Li Dong began to eaters online
According to folklore, Li Dong eats dumplings on this day.
Folklorist Wang Zuoyu reminded, "There is a misconception among the people, always saying 'winter solstice dumplings, summer solstice noodles.' 'Actually it's Li Dong Dumplings, Li Xia Noodles. There is another legend that the winter solstice is the day when Pangu opened the world, so on the day of the winter solstice, you should eat wontons. ”
For the folk to eat the melon stuffed dumplings on this day, Wang Zuoyu believes that one is because the melon is resistant to storage, the other is that the gourd is golden, which means wealth, and in addition, there are many melon seeds, which means many children and many blessings.
Among the many proverbs about Li Dong, the most anticipated thing for foodies is "Li Dong makes up for winter, makes up for the empty mouth." "Folk customs, Li Dong should eat big fish and meat on this day.
The root cause is that people who have worked for a year should take advantage of the day of "Li Dong" to take a break and reward the hardships of the past year.
In the south, people will eat chicken, duck and fish meat on this day, and there is a custom of eating ginger and duck, stewed sesame oil chicken, and lamb stove. In the north, people eat copper hot pot shabu lamb. Experts remind that from the beginning of the winter, it is called "winter supplementation", and it is not a warm supplement, it is a hot supplement, and it is mainly meat.
Beijing News reporter Wang Jixin edited by Tang Zheng
Proofread by Wu Xingfa