What are the stories and allusions about the great cold solar terms in history? How much do you know?

The great cold comes at the end of the year, winter goes to spring, and after the great cold, a new cycle begins. In some parts of our country, during the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs, such as taking off old cloth, making bacon and ending rich food. Tail luxury food is also called "making teeth" and "making luxury food". There is a folk custom of "eating tail teeth" after eating luxury food.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. After the severe cold, beginning of spring will usher in a new year's solar cycle. The Spring Festival is just around beginning of spring. As soon as it gets cold, the flavor of the New Year becomes stronger and stronger. In recent years, the severe cold solar terms are filled with happy and festive atmosphere everywhere, which is a cheerful and relaxed solar term. In this solar term, people are busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, pickling new year's dishes and preparing new year's goods, because the Spring Festival, the most important festival for China people, is coming.

As the last solar term at the end of the year, the Great Cold is a slack season, but everyone is "busy"-busy with the New Year, which is the custom of "welcoming the New Year in the Great Cold". The so-called "welcome in the cold" means that during the period from the cold to the Lunar New Year, there will be a series of activities among the people, which can be summarized into at least ten customs, namely, eating glutinous rice, binge drinking, making teeth, sweeping the dust, pasting windows, tasting bacon, catching a wedding, going to the market and bathing.

There are still many customs of "welcoming the new year in the cold", which vary from place to place, but the theme is basically around "sacrifice", and some of them still exist today. As for "La", there are records of "Roufu" and "Vera" as early as Zhouyi and Zhou Li. The original meaning of "wax" is "dry meat" The end of December has many names, the most familiar of which is the nickname "twelfth month" This month's weather is most suitable for air-drying bacon, so it is called "twelfth lunar month". The sacrifice held this month is called "La Worship". At the end of the year,1February is a month with more sacrifices, because it is in the transition period of the old and the new.

The customs of some places in southern China, from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, have many important folk customs and festivals, such as rich food. Tail teeth originated from the custom of offering sacrifices to the land god as "teeth". The land carries everything, breeds everything, and grows grains to support the people. This is why people love and worship the land. Laba Festival is an important popular festival in northern China. The custom of this festival is to eat Laba porridge. Laba porridge, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors porridge", "Buddha porridge" and "everyone's meal", is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients.

In short, the Great Cold is the end of the 24 solar terms, and it is also the season when winter is coming to an end. You can already vaguely feel the signs of spring coming back.