The coldest year of 3949 was also in the season of slight cold and severe cold. Therefore, with the arrival of the slight cold solar term, the weather such as cooling, rain, snow and strong wind will increase, just like the saying goes, "the slight cold is frozen into a ball." In the slight cold season, "keep warm first", especially in the parts such as shoulders, neck and feet that are easy to catch cold.
Laba is in the mild cold season, so the biggest feature of northerners in the mild cold diet is Laba porridge. The custom of drinking Laba porridge was very popular in the Song Dynasty. On Laba Festival, Laba porridge is cooked by the court, government, temples and people's homes. The earliest Laba porridge was boiled with red beans. In the Ming Dynasty, glutinous rice, ginkgo, walnuts and chestnuts were added to cook porridge.
Introduction of traditional snacks
In Guangzhou and other parts of the south, on mild and cold days, a bowl of glutinous rice is served, which contains bacon, sausage, shrimp, mushrooms, peanuts and other main ingredients. And eat with glutinous rice, moist but not greasy. More importantly, eating glutinous rice has a good omen, which means it is warm all the year round.
The coldest solar term is also the most prosperous period of "yin evil". From the point of view of diet health, we should pay special attention to eating warm food in our daily diet to supplement our body and prevent the invasion of cold climate. Therefore, the slight cold season is a good time to eat hot pot. The simplest is a copper pot with uniform heat conduction, with ginger and onion at the bottom. There is no miscellaneous bottom material and odor, which is the preference of friends who pay attention to the bottom of the original pot.