The origin and custom of heavy snow

The origin and customs of heavy snow are as follows:

The origin of heavy snow: heavy snow is 2 1 solar term among the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in winter. Heavy snow, fingers crossed, the sun reaches 255 degrees of the yellow meridian, and the node time is February 6-8, 65438. Like light snow, rain, Grain Rain and Xiaoman, heavy snow is a solar term that directly reflects precipitation. The arrival of heavy snow in solar terms means that the weather will get colder and colder and the precipitation will gradually increase. The most common solar terms in heavy snow are cooling, rain or snow.

The custom of heavy snow:

Drink sweet potato porridge. With the arrival of the solar term of heavy snow, the weather became cold. There is a folk saying in northern Shandong that "the road is full, and people only drink red sticky porridge". At this time they can drink more sweet potato porridge at home. Sweet potato is rich in lysine lacking in rice and flour, which is very beneficial to people's health, can improve people's immunity and reduce your chances of catching a cold and having a fever in cold winter. At the same time, sweet potato is also a very good diet food, which is very popular with some girls.

Homemade bacon. Bacon is one of the customs of solar terms in heavy snow. In Nanjing, there is a saying that there is light snow with pickles and heavy snow with bacon, so the solar term of heavy snow is coming and everyone is busy with bacon. People put all kinds of meat, according to their own preferences, coated with various spices, pickled into many delicious and very easy to preserve food. However, it should be noted that although some bacon sausages are delicious, don't eat too much, otherwise it will do harm to people's health.

The legend of heavy snow and solar terms

People often say that "snow will bring a good harvest". In severe winter, snow covers the earth, so that the temperature around the ground and crops will not drop very low because of the cold current, and winter crops create a good wintering environment. When the snow melts, the soil moisture content is increased to meet the needs of crop growth in spring. The content of nitride in snow water is five times that of ordinary rain water, which has a certain effect on fertile fields. There is an agricultural proverb called "wheat covers three quilts this year and sleeps with steamed bread next year."

Legend has it that there is a cold bird with four legs and bare wings. In summer, it is covered with gorgeous feathers and looks very beautiful, shaking its feathers all day. When the heavy snow came, the birds built their nests in advance, accumulated food and prepared for the winter, but Hanwuwu did nothing. At night, it can only bark in the crevices, and finally freeze to death in the crevices.