What customs are there during the Great Cold? What should we pay attention to in maintaining health during the Great Cold?
The Great Cold is the season when the land is frozen and covered with snow. At this time, all living things lose their vitality and go dormant. So what are the customs during the Great Cold and what should we pay attention to in order to maintain our health during the Great Cold? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the twelfth month. What are the things to do and not to do in the twelfth month? Visit Shui Mo Xiansheng's website to learn more about the twelfth lunar month of 2018.What are the customs and practices during the Great Cold?1. Get rid of the old and decorate with the new, prepare New Year's goods . Although the Great Cold is cold, it is close to spring, so it will not be as cold as the period from the Great Snow to the Winter Solstice. At this time of year, people begin to get busy getting rid of the old and decorating with the new, pickling New Year's dishes, preparing New Year's goods and various sacrificial offerings, and sweeping the house, because the most important festival for the Chinese people - the Spring Festival - is about to arrive.2. Steaming and cooking glutinous rice. There is a saying in Lingnan folklore: "Minor Cold and Major Cold, it's cold even without wind." On an extremely cold day in the traditional solar term, the Guangdong people have formed the custom of eating glutinous rice. Nowadays in Guangdong, it is common to see this scene: before the Great Cold arrives, every household cooks a pot of fragrant glutinous rice, mixing it with cured meat, dried shrimp, dried squid, mushrooms, etc., to welcome the coldest day of the traditional solar term. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm in nature, and eating it has the effect of keeping warm and nourishing the body. In Anqing, Anhui, there is a custom of frying spring rolls during the Great Cold. 3. The year-end tooth festival originates 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" will 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 in the next year. Therefore, some bosses usually turn the chicken head toward themselves so that their employees can enjoy the food without worry and have a peaceful year after returning home. 4. Buying sesame straw In the old days, during the Great Cold season, people would often rush to buy sesame straw on the streets because "sesame flowers bloom higher and higher." On New Year's Eve, people sprinkle sesame straw on the road for children to crush it, which sounds auspicious like "stepping on the year". The homophony of "broken" and "year" also means "peace every year", hoping for good luck in the new year. This also makes the festival of Dahan, which drives away evil and welcomes good fortune, more meaningful. 5. Offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God: Stick sugar on the Kitchen God’s mouth During the Great Cold, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the day to offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God, so the custom of offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God is naturally indispensable. Legend has it that the Kitchen God is a god sent by the Jade Emperor to every household to monitor people's daily good and evil deeds. At the end of each year, he returns to the Heavenly Palace to report the people's sentiments to the Jade Emperor and let the Jade Emperor decide on rewards and punishments. Therefore, when sending off the Kitchen God, people put candies, clean water, beans and hay on the table in front of the Kitchen God statue. When offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, you would melt Guandong sugar with fire and smear it on the Kitchen God's mouth. The purpose of this is to prevent the Kitchen God from saying bad things. 6. The Coldest Days of the Year falls during the “49th day” of severe cold. People in the north have the custom of “drawing pictures to count the nine days”. The pictures include coins, plum blossoms, words, gourds and many other shapes. Among them, the most famous one is “The willow trees in the yard are waiting for the spring breeze”. This kind of tracing paper has nine characters in total, and each character has nine strokes. Starting from the first day of the ninth lunar month, fill in the outlines day by day, one stroke each day. Each time a character is completed, one nine is passed, and when the sentence is complete, ninety-nine and eighty-one days are over. What should we pay attention to in health preservation during the Great Cold?"Lingshu·Ben Shen" said: "The wise man nourishes his spirit by following the four seasons and adjusting to cold and heat, harmonizing joy and anger and living in a peaceful place, regulating yin and yang and adjusting hardness and softness. In this way, evil will not come and he will live a long and healthy life." "Lüshi Chunqiu·Jinshu" mentioned: "Nature creates yin and yang, cold and heat, dryness and humidity. The changes of the four seasons and the changes of all things are all beneficial and harmful. The sage observes the suitability of yin and yang and distinguishes the benefits of all things in order to live, so the spirit is at peace with the body and he lives a long life." That is to say, conforming to the laws of nature is not a passive adaptation, but a proactive attitude. First, we must master the laws of change in nature in order to defend against the invasion of external evils. There is an ancient saying that goes "During the Great Cold, you should prevent wind and keep warm. In the morning, drink ginseng and astragalus wine, and in the evening, take Qiju Dihuang pills." This is the summary of the working people in their lives, and it also shows that people attach great importance to physical conditioning. Taking advantage of this solar term, we will focus on the methods of physical conditioning for women.1. The most important things to prevent during this solar term are cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis. Especially for the elderly, try to stay at home less in the morning and evening. 2. Keep warm and wear a coat, mask, hat and scarf when going out. 3. The room should be ventilated in the morning and evening. When heating indoors, pour some water on the floor or put some cool wet towels on it to maintain the indoor humidity. Drink more boiled water to replenish the body's water. 4. The elderly can insist on taking cold water baths on their faces, hands and feet in their homes to increase their body's ability to resist cold. |
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