On January 20, 2022 (the 18th day of the lunar month), the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is getting closer and closer, and people who have been busy for a year rush home from other places, some put down their hands to clean up, some rush to buy New Year goods, buy new clothes for children, people look forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival, rejoice and reunite with their families. Today is cold, the weather has also entered the coldest season of the year, these days we live in the beautiful town, the weather is cloudy and sunny, cold and windy, exceptionally cold. According to the weather forecast, there may be an unexpected snowfall around the Spring Festival, and people are looking forward to it.
The Great Cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms. The sun has a yellow longitude of 300 °; it is celebrated on January 20-21 of the Gregorian calendar. Big cold, like small cold, is also a solar term that indicates the degree of coldness of the weather, and big cold is the meaning of cold weather to the extreme. According to the continent's long-standing meteorological records, there is no small cold in the northern region of the Great Cold Festival; but for most of the South, the coldest is the Great Cold Festival. Every year on January 20-21 of the Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 300° ecliptic longitude, it is "great cold". The "Time-Granting Tongkao Tianshi" quotes the "Three Rites and Righteous Sects" to explain: "The great cold is the middle, and the upper form is in the small cold, so it is called the big.... The reverse pole of the cold is called the great cold. "Extremely cold and cold.
This festival is in the 39th and 49th periods, when the cold wave is frequent in the south, which is the coldest period of the year. Folk proverb cloud: "small cold, big cold, no wind and cold". Although the winter solstice solar terms are the lowest time of the sun in the northern hemisphere, the coldest time of the year is the small cold and big cold festivals after the winter solstice, especially the great cold festival; this is because after the winter solstice, the direct point of sunlight will gradually move north, but in the following period of time, the direct point of the sun is always in the southern hemisphere, the heat in the northern hemisphere is always in a state of dissipation, and the heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so after the winter solstice, the temperature of the northern hemisphere continues to decrease. Temperatures are cooled to the minimum during the Great Cold Festival, which is the coldest of the year.
The great cold is the last of the twenty-four solar terms, and after the great cold and spring, the new year's solar cycle is about to usher in. The New Year's Festival is just around the beginning of the spring, and the taste of the cold is getting stronger and stronger. Due to the great cold festival in recent years, this festival period is full of joy and joy, and it is a cheerful and relaxed festival. During this festival, people began to busily remove the old and decorate the new, pickle the wax flavored New Year dishes, and prepare the New Year goods, because Chinese the most important festival, the Spring Festival, is coming.
As the last cold festival at the end of the year, although it is the agricultural leisure season, every family is "busy" - busy new year, which is the custom of "big cold to welcome the new year". The so-called "Great Cold New Year" means that during the period from the Great Cold to the Lunar New Year, there will be a series of activities in the folk, which can be summarized as at least ten major customs, namely: "glutinous", "indulgent drinking", "making teeth", "sweeping dust", "pasting windows", "waxing", "rushing marriage", "taking advantage of the ruins", "bathing", "pasting the new year red" and so on.
"Twenty-Four Solar Terms Song": "Spring rain shocks the spring valley sky, summer is full of summer and summer is connected." Autumn dew autumn frost falls, winter snow snow winter small cold. The two festivals per month do not change, and the difference is at most one or two days. In the first half of the year, it was 621, and in the second half of the year it was 823." Folk have "small cold and big cold, no wind and self-cold". The proverb "Little cold, big cold, cold into a ball" shows that the big cold festival is also a cold period of the year. The Great Cold Festival coincides with the severe cold of "Three Nine", and "Counting Nine" is one of the customs widely spread in mainland china, that is, counting from the winter solstice to every day (it is also said that it is calculated from the winter solstice), every nine days is counted as "nine", and so on. The so-called "heat is in three volts, cold is in four nines", the coldest period of the year is "three nine, four nine days". Count nine all the way to "nine nine" eighty-one days, "nine peach blossoms", at this time the cold has run out, the weather is warm. (Photography by Zhao Wei, written by)