What does Dahan mean? Dahan in 2017 is not as cold as Xiaohan.

This year's Great Cold falls on January 20, 2017, which happens to be the same day as the Little New Year. So, what does Great Cold mean? Is the Great Cold the coldest time? Next, let’s take a look at the relevant content about the Great Cold.

What does Dahan mean?

meaning

Dahan, as the name suggests, means it is extremely cold. Dahan is the last solar term among the 24 solar terms in the whole year, and it also represents the end of one year and the coming of a new year.

feature

Like Lesser Cold, Greater Cold represents the degree of coldness of the weather, so the most notable feature of the weather on the day of Greater Cold is that the temperature drops and becomes particularly cold. However, according to meteorological records over the years, in most parts of China, the temperature of the Great Cold is not as cold as that of the Lesser Cold. Only in a small part of the country does the temperature of the Great Cold be the lowest in the year.

What traditional food should we eat during the Great Cold?

1. Stew chicken soup. On the day of the Great Cold, people in Nanjing would have more stews and broths on their dinner tables. Nanjing people mainly choose old hens, which they stew alone or with ginseng, wolfberries, black fungus, etc.
2. Eat cold-relieving cakes. Xiaohan cake is a kind of rice cake. Eating it is a traditional custom in Beijing, which symbolizes good luck, peace every year and promotion.
3. Cook eight-treasure rice. There is a folk saying that eating glutinous rice during the Great Cold season is good for keeping warm, nourishing the stomach and replenishing the body. The main ingredient of Eight Treasure Rice is glutinous rice. It is said that Eight Treasure Rice Pudding originated from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and was spread to the north after chefs from the south of the Yangtze River came to Beijing to work as imperial chefs. Nowadays, Ningbo, Shengzhou and Jiaxing still retain the custom of eating Eight Treasure Rice Pudding during the Chinese New Year.

Proverbs about the Great Cold

1. After the Great Cold, a new year begins.
2. During the Lesser Cold and Greater Cold, people kill pigs to celebrate the New Year.
3. The Great Cold reaches its peak and the weather will gradually become warmer.
4. The winter solstice is at the beginning of the month, and it is the Great Cold and the New Year.
5. The Lesser Cold and the Greater Cold are very cold, but the spring of the following year will be warm.
6. Lesser Cold is not as cold as Greater Cold. After Greater Cold, the weather gradually becomes warmer.
7. There will be mostly southerly winds during Minor Cold and Major Cold, and typhoons will come as early as June next year.