Light snow twenty-four solar terms

Light snow is the twentieth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in winter.

The light snow time is in Gregorian calendar165438+1October 2 1 or 22 or 23. The arrival of the light snow solar term means that the weather will get colder and colder. The ancients in China divided the light snow into three stages: the stage when the rainbow disappeared; Second, the weather is rising and the atmosphere is falling; Third, the weather was blocked and turned into winter. The yang in the sky rises and the yin in the ground falls, which leads to the impassability between heaven and earth and the disharmony between yin and yang, so everything loses its vitality, and the heaven and earth are blocked and become a cold winter.

Because of the cold weather, the form of precipitation changed from rain to snow, but at this time, because the ground is not very cold and the amount of snow is not large, it is called light snow. Therefore, light snow indicates the beginning time and degree of snowfall, which is a solar term that directly reflects precipitation, just like the solar terms such as rain and Grain Rain.

traditional custom

1, eat a ciba

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.

2. dried fish meal

During the light snow, fishermen in the south-central coastal area of 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.

3. Drink soup.

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".