What is the traditional food of heavy snow and solar terms?

Speaking of the solar terms of heavy snow, everyone must think that it is the time of heavy snow. In fact, heavy snow is 2 1 of the 24 solar terms, and the solar term of heavy snow is between February 6 and 8 of the lunar calendar 12 every year. The snow festival is in the cold winter, so do you know what traditional food is eaten in the snow festival? Let's have a look.

1, eat red sticky porridge in snowy solar terms: After the heavy snow, the weather will gradually get cold, and it has snowed heavily in the north, so people pay great attention to keeping warm. Winter coats are essential to prevent freezing and frostbite. There is a folk saying in northern Shandong that "people only drink red sticky porridge", which means that when it is cold, they no longer visit their homes, but only drink warm sweet potato porridge at home. Porridge nourishes the stomach, millet porridge has the effects of nourishing yin and enriching blood, harmonizing the stomach and calming the nerves, while sweet potato is also called "tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney yin", which makes people "live longer and get sick less". Drinking porridge in winter is a good way to keep fit.

2, heavy snow solar terms mutton: "winter tonic, spring tiger", heavy snow reminds people to start tonic, tonic is to let everyone recuperate the body, can spend the cold winter physically and mentally, in the old Nanjing heavy snow tonic love to eat mutton, drive cold and nourish, replenish qi and deficiency, promote blood circulation, enhance the ability to keep out the cold. According to the advice of relevant experts, mutton is better than medlar and yam. In some places in the north, the solar terms in universities are already very cold. For example, there is a saying in Baotou that "light snow kills pigs and heavy snow kills sheep". When the snow season comes, it's time to kill pigs and prepare for the New Year. At this time, no matter who slaughters livestock, relatives and friends will come to help, and the host will prepare dining tables and side dishes. Therefore, the solar terms of light snow and heavy snow are the time for family and friends to catch up and contact their feelings.

3. Eat dog meat in heavy snow and solar terms: The middle of winter is the best time to eat dog meat for tonic. There is a record in Daming Materia Medica that "the yellow dog benefits people greatly, and the remaining color is slightly supplemented". So the older generation said that eating dog meat can improve the problem of weak children. So many places eat dog meat in heavy snow and solar terms.

4. Eat sugar in the snow festival: "Sugar customers, eat slowly, and the small ones follow a large class." Before and after the "heavy snow" solar term, there will be a scene of "changing sugar" on the streets of Wenzhou. Full-page caramel produced by caramel workshops all over the country is provided to small vendors who specialize in carrying burdens and walking around the streets, commonly known as "sugar customers", so I am used to eating sugar when it snows in the solar terms.