What are the customs of Dahan? An inventory of folk customs in various places during Dahan

What are the customs during the Great Cold? The Great Cold is the last solar term of the 24 solar terms. There is a saying among the people that "after the Great Cold, a new year begins." Next, let’s take a look at the customs and activities related to the Great Cold solar term.

What are the customs of the Great Cold?

Pickled New Year dishes

The Great Cold Festival is a festival full of festive atmosphere. According to traditional customs, people have already started to pickle New Year dishes when the Great Cold comes. In the southern regions, people would take out the cured meat and duck pickled during the Lesser Snow solar term and prepare dishes for the New Year.

Eat Xiaohan Cake

In Beijing, there is a traditional custom of eating Xiaohan Cake as a family during the Great Cold solar term. Xiaohan Cake is a kind of rice cake, which has the effect of warming and dispersing wind and cold, moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen and stomach after eating. Moreover, eating Xiaohan cake on the day of the Great Cold symbolizes good luck, peace and prosperity, and continuous advancement.

Preparing New Year's goods

The Great Cold solar term often coincides with the end of the year, so the strong festive atmosphere is everywhere during the Great Cold period. At this time, farmers not only do farm work in accordance with the solar terms, but also prepare New Year's goods one after another. In the old days, during the Great Cold in the streets, people would often rush to buy sesame straw, which symbolized "the sesame will blossom higher and higher."