Cover News Reporter Li Yuxin
"The sound of the frost falls, and the guest thinks of the deep autumn."
The cold is getting heavier, and the autumn wind is getting colder. Before we knew it, the last solar term of autumn will pass. On October 23, frost, one of the twenty-four solar terms, arrived. This is a transitional solar term from autumn to winter, and the weather gradually became colder. It is worth mentioning that the frost season does not mean that it will "fall frost", but rather that it means a season with "sudden drop in temperature and a large temperature difference between day and night".
According to the "Collected Explanations of the Seventy-Two Monthly Orders": "Frost falls, mid-nine month. The air is solemn and the dew condenses and turns into frost." The ancient Chinese divided the frost falls into three symptoms: "One is the jackal to sacrifice to the beast; the second is the yellow grass and trees fall; the third is the stinging insects and stinging and falling down." It means: At this time, animals like jackals began to capture prey for the winter; leaves all withered and yellow; animals hibernating in the cave and entered the hibernation state without moving or eating.
Liu Xiaochang
"After the Double Ninth Festival, frost falls, and the biggest climatic feature at this time is the large temperature difference between day and night. The day is still bright and cool during the autumn, but at night it is cold. So at this time, the old Chengdu men had already taken out the baking cage and put it on the bed to bake." In the description of folk customs expert Liu Xiaochang, the scene of Chengdu people in the 1930s and 1940s greeting frost falls seemed to slowly spread in front of their eyes.
Heating artifact drying cage to bed
accidentally wanted to "beat the dream feet"
After the chill became stronger, the social network platform was opened, "whether to wear long pants" was still a topic of debate among netizens. In the cold and humid Chengdu, how to survive the long winter after the frost falls does require a lot of people's wisdom. In that simple era without air conditioning and down jackets, the "heating artifact" made of bamboo baking cages allowed many older people to survive the biting cold winter.
"When frost fell, it was already very cold at night, and the cold air came from under my feet, making people tremble. At that time, at the old Chengdu family, basically every household must have a baking cage. At night, the baking cage was lifted to the bed to warm the quilt, so as not to be stiff when sleeping."
baking cage
Liu Xiaochang said that local baking cages in Chengdu are generally made of bamboo, with an upside-down kimchi jar lid or a tuba bowl inside. After burning the charcoal or blocks, put the red charcoal fire in the baking cage to keep warm. In the old days, Chengdu basically used charcoal, and the remaining fire after cooking could be put into a baking cage to help the family survive the cold night. "At that time, material resources were still very scarce. A family of children covered a quilt. The poor families almost all rely on drying cages to keep warm."
0 has a dialect called "Dream Foot", which originally refers to the behavior of kicking and kicking without being controlled by consciousness in sleep. In Sichuan dialect, it also refers to the state of being confused and not concentrating in doing things. When baking a cage on the bed, the most feared thing is "beating dream feet". "If you accidentally kick it over, the bedding will burn. So at that time, the sledge craftsman would shout along the way: 'Pick the baking cage out of the bed'." At present, with the popularity of heating facilities such as air conditioners and electric stoves and the improvement of people's living standards, it is difficult to find baking cages on the streets of Chengdu. "There is no such thing now." Liu Xiaochang sighed.
Lamb, sweet potatoes, persimmons, and fragrance
late autumn food, don’t miss the arrival of frost. Not only the people who feel cold, but also the crops growing in the ground. "As a fall, farmers in the areas of Lion Mountain and Phoenix Mountain are busy digging sweet potatoes, because the sweet potatoes will be broken when frost and cannot be eaten."
The solar term of late autumn naturally also needs to seize the tail of autumn and enjoy the fruitful food that will be harvested in this season. After the weather gradually became colder, the fragrance of roasted sweet potatoes began to float on the streets and alleys of Chengdu. The famous Ma Yang in Chengdu also began to set off from the surrounding suburbs to the city. As winter was about to come, I could drink a bowl of hot and fragrant mutton soup.
"At that time, there were mutton soup in Chengdu one after another. There were mutton shops on the southeast, northwest and north gates of the old city.At the same time, the vendors selling roasted sweet potatoes carried loads and started to hawk. As soon as the pot was opened, the baked sweet and soft sweet potatoes were still steaming, and the streets were fragrant. "
In addition, during the Frost Descent solar term, there is also a saying among the people that "It is better to supplement the Frost Descent than to supplement the winter", and it is believed that "autumn supplement" is more important than "winter supplement". Therefore, eating persimmons, simmering mutton, eating ducks, etc. have become the primary choice for "fatty in autumn".
" When the weather is cold, even the direction of sleeping must be changed. ‘A mortal lying, spring and summer are eastward, autumn and winter are westward’, which means the direction of sleeping. Because the ancients believed that autumn and winter are yin, sleeping head facing west can nourish the yin energy. "Liu Xiaochang said.
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