Great cold (Da Han)

Great cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. Fighting finger ugliness; The solar yellow meridian reaches 300 °; The festival is handed in on January 20-21 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Like the slight cold, the severe cold is also a solar term indicating the cold degree of the weather. The severe cold means the extreme cold of the weather. According to China's long-term meteorological records, there is no small cold in the severe cold solar terms in the north; But for most parts of the south, the coldest is in the cold solar term.

The great cold ends at the end of the year. Winter goes and spring comes. Once the great cold has passed, it begins a new reincarnation. In some parts of China, there are many important folk customs during the period from the cold to the beginning of spring, such as eliminating the old and putting on new clothes, making preserved meat, offering sacrifices to stoves and tail teeth, etc. Tail tooth sacrifice, also known as "making teeth" and "making tooth sacrifice", has a folk custom of "eating tail teeth" with the whole family after the tooth sacrifice.

Da Han Wiki：

Chinese name	Da Han
Foreign name	GreatCold
Representative moral	The weather is very cold, and the coldest period is coming
Climatic characteristics	Mild cold and severe cold are the periods with the least rain in a year
time	January 19 or 20 or 21 of each year
Sun position	The sun reaches 300 ° of the Yellow meridian
Custom activities	Tail tooth sacrifice
Custom food	Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits
Agricultural activities	Strengthen cold and freezing prevention of livestock and overwintering crops
health preservation	Keep your mind deep inside to avoid impatience and anger
Sanhou	Chicken milk; Severe illness of birds; Watery belly