The winter solstice is the fourth solar term of winter and the twenty-second of the 24 solar terms. The winter solstice means the arrival of the first three or nine days, and the quick-freezing mode has been turned on.
During the winter solstice solar term, heavy snow falls in the north, while the vegetables and wheat in the south are green, and the birds and flowers are fragrant in the coastal areas of South China. Sunny, the next year's fruit trees. We are also looking forward to a bumper harvest today in both sunny and non-sunny areas.
What are the animals and plants on the winter solstice?
At this time, the earthworm is still curled up and hibernate in the cave. The lifespan of an earthworm is about two to four years, and a pair of earthworms can reproduce more than 1,000 baby earthworms a year, which is incredible!
The homeland of elk is in China, and their heads are like horses, their necks are like camels, and their horns and tails are like donkeys, so they are called Sibu. Every winter, the horns begin to fall off, and when winter turns to spring, they begin to grow back. Elk live in places with abundant aquatic plants, love to eat grass and aquatic plants, and are master swimmers.
At this time, the well water began to gush upwards and the spring water began to flow, perhaps just a little bit of change, but it had also broken the frozen state after drying up.
Hibiscus flowers have red, pink, yellow and other petals, divided into single petals and double petals, and its flowers and leaves can be used in medicine. He is also the city flower of a certain city.
At this time, the bamboo is still green, they grow very fast, each bamboo node grows at the same time, the bamboo is evergreen all year round, not afraid of wind and snow. It also produces winter bamboo shoots, a delicious seasonal dish.
Rape grows vigorously in winter, and it can be eaten stir-fried and made into soup. Rapeseed can also be used to extract oil.
In addition to animals and plants that show signs of life in winter, what other traditional customs are there for humans?
Eat dumplings, northerners like to eat dumplings at any time, they think that they are delicious but dumplings, dumplings are nutritious, in the old days we often eat dumplings during festivals to improve our lives.
A round dough of dumplings can be wrapped in a lot of ingredients, can be meat and vegetarian, like vegetarian, can be wrapped leeks and greens, fungus, carrots and other fresh vegetables;If you like to eat meat, you can wrap pork, mutton, beef, chicken and so on.
Nine-layer cake worship ancestors, and there are some areas where there is a custom of worshipping ancestors on the winter solstice. They make nine-layer cakes and worship their ancestors. said that he did not forget his ancestors. The nine-layer cake is made from glutinous rice flour, an animal that symbolizes auspicious fortune and longevity, and then steamed in layers in a steamer. After the pastry worship to the ancestors, a feast is held, and everyone gathers together to talk about the heavens and the earth, communicate feelings, and become "food ancestors".
Of course, there are also folk drawings of ninety-nine cold pictures, there are text type, circle type, plum blossom pattern and so on. The most famous is the plum blossom picture, which depicts a plum blossom with 81 petals, dyed one petal every day, and all the petals are painted with color, and winter has passed. The Ninety-Nine Chill Chart can record the time of winter, and it can also record the sunny weather. It not only expresses people's ardent feelings, but also helps agricultural production to a certain extent.
The north eats dumplings during festivals, and the south eats glutinous rice balls, but our family eats dumplings today, what do you eat?
The north and south winter solstice are in great music