What customs are there during the Great Cold solar term? What soup is best for health preservation during the Great Cold in 2020?

What customs are there during the Great Cold solar term? What soup is best for health preservation during the Great Cold in 2020?
Introduction: Dahan is one of the 24 solar terms, and Dahan has many customs. So what are the customs of Dahan? What soup is best for health preservation in Dahan in 2020? Some days are auspicious, while others are inauspicious. Predicting the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of days in advance can help us avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles. Shuimoxiansheng.com has predicted the good and bad luck for each day of the twelfth lunar month of 2019. Come and pay attention.

What are the customs during the Great Cold solar term?

《1》Dahan solar term customs: Dahan 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's 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's goods, pickling various sausages and bacon, or frying and cooking various New Year dishes such as chicken, duck, fish and meat.
At the same time, people worship their ancestors and various gods, praying for good weather and good harvests in the coming year. In the old days, during the Great Cold season, people could often be seen rushing to buy sesame straw on the streets.
Because "sesame seeds bloom higher and higher", on New Year's Eve, people sprinkle sesame straw on the road for children to crush. The homophonic pronunciation of "broken" and "year" means auspiciousness, and the homophonic pronunciation of "broken" and "year" means "peace every year", which is to wish for good luck in the new year. This also makes the festival of Dahan, which drives away evil and welcomes good fortune, more meaningful.
《2》Dahan solar term customs: eating Laba porridge
During the Great Cold, people begin to get busy getting rid of the old and decorating with the new, pickling New Year 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. 《3》Dahan solar term custom: drinking 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.
Another reason why people in Nanjing like to eat soup in winter is that the ingredients are easy to get. They can be simple or complex, expensive or cheap. Minced meat, tofu, yam, fungus, sweet potato, pickled mustard tuber, etc. can all be made into a pot of hot soup. Add some coriander and sprinkle some white pepper powder, and you will feel warm all over after eating it.
《4》Dahan solar term customs: year-end festival
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 our country's biggest festival, the Spring Festival, falls within this solar term.
The Great Cold solar term is filled with an atmosphere of joy and happiness. It is a cheerful and relaxing solar term. The year-end party originated from the custom of worshipping the God of Land as the “tooth”.
The so-called February 2nd is the first tooth, and from then on every second and sixteenth day of the lunar month, "tooth" must be held. The sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is the last tooth. The year-end party, like the second day of the second lunar month, has spring pancakes (called runbing in the south) to eat. On this day, businessmen have banquets, and poached chicken is an indispensable dish at the banquet. It is said that whoever the chicken's head is facing indicates that person the boss will fire next year. Therefore, some bosses now generally turn the chicken head toward themselves so that their employees can enjoy the food with peace of mind and have a peaceful year after returning home.

What soup is best for health preservation during the Great Cold in 2020?

【1】Chicken soup with mushrooms
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, some mushrooms, 5-6 red dates, 10 wolfberries, 2-3 slices of ginger, and a little salt.
practice:
1.1 The whole chicken you bought has been cleaned of its internal organs. After rinsing it, chop off the head and tail of the chicken. There are two thick pieces of fat on the left and right sides of the tail, which should also be removed. The lymph nodes on the chicken's neck should also be removed. Wash your favorite mushrooms, cut them into pieces and set aside. Wash the red dates and wolfberries, soak them in warm water for a while and set aside.
1.2 Pour enough water into the pot, put the whole chicken into the cold water, boil over high heat, remove the foam, add ginger slices, soaked red dates and wolfberries, and mushrooms. Are you using dried shiitake mushrooms? Then you might as well pour the water used to soak the mushrooms into the soup to make them more fragrant. In this case, you must wash the mushrooms carefully.
1.3 For black-bone chicken and black-bone chicken, cook them on low heat for 2 hours. For three-yellow chicken, 1 hour is enough. Sprinkle some salt before drinking.
【2】Danggui Lamb Soup
Ingredients: 30 grams of angelica, 30 grams of ginger, 500 grams of mutton.
practice :
2.1. Wash the angelica and ginger with clean water, cut into large pieces and set aside. Remove the fascia from the mutton, wash and cut into pieces, blanch in boiling water to remove the blood, remove and let cool for later use.
3.2. Put an appropriate amount of water into the casserole, put the mutton into the pot, then add the angelica and ginger slices. Bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, and simmer over low heat for 1.5 hours until the mutton is cooked through.
Efficacy: warming the middle, nourishing blood, and dispelling cold. Suitable for people with weak body and spleen who suffer from fatigue, diarrhea and chills.
【3】Papaya and peanut fish soup
Ingredients : 300 grams of papaya, 50 grams of peanuts, 600 grams of black fish, and appropriate amounts of oil, onion, ginger and salt.
practice :
3.1. Peel and split the papaya, remove the seeds and cut into pieces. Wash the peanuts and soak them in water for 15 minutes. Pour oil into the pot and add the onion and ginger after the oil is hot.
3.2. Put the cleaned and slaughtered black fish into the pan and fry until both sides turn slightly yellow, then pour in clean water, bring to a boil over high heat, add peanuts and papaya, then simmer over low heat for one and a half hours, add salt to taste and serve.
Effect: Papaya, peanuts and fish soup is refreshing and delicious, and has the effect of moistening the lungs, strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidneys. Fish soup contains a special fatty acid that has anti-inflammatory effects, can treat respiratory tract inflammation, and prevent colds and asthma attacks.

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