What are the customs of Dahan? What are the characteristics of this climate?

What are the customs of Dahan? What are the characteristics of this climate?
The Great Cold solar term often presents a scene of biting northerly winds. The cold is so severe that people are unprepared. In order to welcome the arrival of the Great Cold solar term, many places have some customs. So what are the customs of the Great Cold? What are the characteristics of this climate?

What are the customs of Dahan?

Eat Laba Congee
Fifteen days after Xiaohan comes Dahan, the last of the 24 solar terms in the year. Although the weather is cold at this time, it is not as cold as during the period from Daxue to Winter Solstice because it is close to spring. At this time of year, people begin to get busy cleaning out the old and decorating with the new, pickling New Year's dishes, and preparing New Year's goods, because the most important festival for the Chinese people - the Spring Festival - is coming. There is also a very important day for people in the north - Laba, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people use grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates, lotus seeds, etc. to cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge, which is an indispensable staple food for people during the Chinese New Year.
Great Cold Welcomes the New Year
The Great Cold solar term often coincides with the end of the year. Therefore, during this solar term, in addition to doing farm work in accordance with the solar terms, people also have to rush around for the New Year - going to the New Year market, buying New Year goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing various sacrificial offerings, sweeping the house, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, preparing New Year goods, pickling various sausages and bacon, or frying and cooking various New Year dishes such as chicken, duck, fish and meat, while at the same time offering sacrifices to ancestors and various gods, praying for good weather in the coming year. Drink chicken soup
In the cold winter season, Nanjing people's daily diet includes more stews and soups. The Great Cold falls around the 49th day of the lunar calendar. The traditional custom of eating one chicken for every 19th day of the lunar calendar is still respected by many families. Nanjing people mostly choose old hens, either stewing them alone or adding ginseng, wolfberries, black fungus, etc. Drinking chicken soup in the cold winter is really a pleasure. In the twelfth lunar month, old Nanjing people still like to make soup. Soups are available in all regions and the cooking methods are different. For example, soups in the north tend to be thick and sticky, while soups in the south tend to be light and delicate. Nanjing soups take the best of both north and south flavors, being neither too thick or light, nor too salty or sweet.
Year-end Party
According to the customs of our country, especially in rural areas, every time the Great Cold Festival comes, people begin to get busy getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, pickling New Year's dishes, and preparing New Year's goods. During the period from Great Cold to Beginning of Spring, there are many important folk customs and festivals, such as the year-end tooth festival, the Kitchen God festival and New Year's Eve. Sometimes even my country's biggest festival, the Spring Festival, falls during this solar term. The year-end party originated from the custom of worshipping the God of Land and doing "tooth". The second day of the second month is the first tooth, and after that, "tooth" will be done on the second and sixteenth day of every month. The sixteenth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar happens to be the year-end party. On this day, merchants hold banquets, and boiled chicken is an indispensable dish at the banquet.

What are the characteristics of this climate?

Climate characteristics of the Great Cold solar term: increased rainfall, cold and frost prevention
During the Great Cold season every year, rainfall in most parts of southern China increases only slightly compared with the previous period, 5 to 10 mm in most parts of south China, and only 1 to 5 mm in the northwestern plateau and mountainous areas. South China is dry in winter, and the water consumption during the wintering period is relatively small, so the contradiction between water supply and demand in farmland is generally not prominent.
However, “Don’t blame the weather, rain or snow when it’s cold, for it will delay next year’s wheat harvest.” In the case of scarce rain and snow, timely irrigation according to different farming habits and conditions in different regions will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the growth of wheat crops. During this period, cold waves frequently move southward, and it is a relatively cold period of the year in most parts of my country. In agriculture, we must strengthen the protection of livestock and overwintering crops against cold and frost.
Conclusion: The Great Cold solar term is filled with an atmosphere of joy and happiness. It is a cheerful and relaxing solar term.

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