Auther：2023-01-04
Xiaohan, the 23rd of the twenty-four solar terms, is the fifth solar term of the winter season, the end of the month of Zi and the beginning of the month of Ugly in the Ganzhi calendar. It is the 5th day of the winter season, the end of the solar month and the beginning of the ugly month. Cold air accumulates long and cold, small cold is cold weather but not yet to the extreme, it is the same as the cold, summer, summer and summer, are expressed in the temperature change of the festival. The small cold season is characterized by cold, but not yet cold to the extreme.
Because of the large geographical span between the north and the south of China, different regions will have different production and farming activities for the same small cold season. In the north, most areas do not have much farming work in the fields anymore, and they all take a winter break. The main task is to do a good job at home to keep the vegetable cellars and animal sheds warm, and to make fertilizer and accumulate fertilizer.
In Guangzhou, glutinous rice is eaten on the morning of the cold day. The rice is not just cooked, but it is served with fried preserved meat (Cantonese people call preserved sausage and meat preserved meat), cilantro, scallions and other ingredients, which makes it especially fragrant. The preserved flavor is necessary to cook glutinous rice, on the one hand, the fat content is high, cold; on the other hand, the glutinous rice itself is viscous, heavy smell of rice, need some fat type mixed with eating to smell.
