24 solar terms: big cold

(Gregorian calendar January 20 ~ 21,)

Chicken breast card bird and complete a disease bogs, abdomen is hard

【The appropriate 】 light meals, embellish lung, and keep warm dryness

【avoid 】 a food anti-season vegetables

        It is the last 24 solar terms a solar terms, therefore has the "big Lin Lin in year end," said. That is, the big, people began to busy used orientation, for Chinese New Year, culminating in a drive to rush about, buy special purchases, write the Spring Festival couplet, ready to sacrifice of tribute, but also for the bacon, sausage, all kinds of food in.

        In some places in China, and it is the custom of eating glutinous rice, because it is when it's cold, meat and rice have warm effect. Like la month 8 is also against the people eat it one way.

        Big phenology features for "chicken breast, for the birds, establish a complete bogs, abdomen," meaning is: it is obvious after rising sun be the spirit, can hatch chicken; For the bird that eagles and meat birds, it is more high season hovering, catching found food, to replenish the energy for protection against the bitter cold; It is the ground temperature to bottom out, Hanoi also reached the thick ice, children can enjoy skating on the river.

        It is this year after, people have gradually from "winter march" in slowly turned to ChunMang....... So, at this moment, although farm work is less, but people have started for the next years of preparations for the spring.

        In addition, on food also gradually from GaoLiang thick flavour to the light changes. Even so, people also can't ignore the effect of the wind chill, be sure to keep warm dryness is also very important.

        However, in weather records, is slight cold than competition, we often say "cold in san-jiu", and "SanJiuTian" it is in the slight in solar terms, so slight should is the coldest day. That why call "slight" and not called "competition"? This is because solar term originated in the Yellow River basin, that time is really big than small cold, but because slight is still in "29" in the last few days, a slight after a few days, just go in "san-jiu", and is relatively slight and cultivated, so called slight.

        Slight is in the winter when injected, TCM believes that "cold sex stagnate and cold sex closes bring", so this time it is joint pain, cervical spondylosis even disease of heart head blood-vessel almost two decades, so this time to pay attention to maintenance kidney.