What should xiaoxue do?

Eat soup, dried fish, pickled cold dishes, eat Ciba, make wine, bacon and so on.

Xiaoxue is the twentieth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, and the second solar term in winter, which falls on1October 22nd or1October 23rd in the Gregorian calendar every year. Light snow is the second solar term in cold winter, which means that it snows in the north and it should be cold in the south. The cold air began to strengthen, which was a turning point. In order to welcome the light snow, there are also many customs in various places.

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Before and after the light snow, Tujia people started the annual folk activity of "killing pigs to welcome the new year", which added a warm atmosphere to the cold winter. Eating "planing soup" is the custom of Tujia nationality; In the folk activity of "killing pigs to welcome the new year", the delicious food carefully cooked with steaming first-class fresh pork is called "planing soup".

Tujia farmers in Shipai Town, Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture cook "soup" of Tujia traditional food at home with fresh pork that has just killed pigs, ready to entertain relatives and friends.

Dried fish, dried fish is the custom of Xiaoxue solar terms. During the light snow, fishermen in the south-central coastal areas of Taiwan Province Province will start drying dried fish and storing dry food. When it snows, fishermen at the seaside in south-central Taiwan Province Province will start drying dried fish and storing dry food. The mullet group will come to the Taiwan Province Strait around the light snow, including swordfish and sand fish. Taiwan Province Province proverb: October beans are too fat to see the head, which means that you can catch "bean fish" in October of the lunar calendar in the cloth bag area of Chiayi County.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the east of China will pickle cold dishes in the light snow season. In the Qing Dynasty, Li Tizhai described this scene in Preface to Zhi Zhu, Zhou Zhen: "After a light snow, people pickled vegetables, which is called' cold dishes'." In addition, in cold winter, glutinous rice should be fried and stored in boiling water for soaking. There is a local proverb that says, "fried glutinous rice is called fried rice, and it is stored for the winter." The wine brewed on a snowy day is called Xiaoxue wine.

Some places in the south also have the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. Ciba is a kind of food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice, and it is a popular food in some areas of southern China. In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in the south of China, which was originally used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying that "in October, Ciba Shao" refers to sacrificial events.

There is a folk custom of "storing wax in winter to keep out the cold". After a light snow, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which was a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon and enjoy food during the Spring Festival.