A snowy diet

In most parts of the north, the weather became extremely cold at this time, and a bowl of hot mutton or mutton soup became the best diet, which later formed a traditional diet of heavy snow and solar terms.

Every year around 65438+February 7th in Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 255 degrees of the Yellow Meridian, it is a solar term of heavy snow. The twenty-four solar terms are the product of agricultural civilization, and the main climatic factors affecting agricultural production are precipitation, temperature and light. Like the light snow solar term, it is a solar term reflecting the changing trend of temperature and precipitation, and it is also a reflection of agricultural culture on festivals.

Heavy snow is a solar term reflecting climate characteristics. Climate factors include precipitation, temperature, light and so on. Among them, precipitation is an important factor of climate. The water vapor condensate that drops rain, snow and hail from the sky to the ground is called precipitation. The arrival of heavy snow in solar terms means that the weather is getting colder and colder and precipitation is increasing. In the heavy snow season, there are often weather such as cooling, snowstorm, freezing rain, rime and drifting.

Heavy snow cured meat

There is a saying in old Nanjing, it is called light snow pickles and heavy snow pickles. Every household is busy pickling pickles as soon as the solar term comes. Add star anise, cinnamon, pepper and white sugar to the salt, and fry in a pot until cooked. After the fried pepper and salt are completely cooled, apply them to fish, meat and poultry and knead them repeatedly until the meat turns from fresh to black and the surface oozes liquid. Then put the meat and the remaining salt into the jar.

Put the marinated gravy into a pot and add water to boil, skim off the floating foam, put the air-dried poultry meat into a jar layer by layer, pour the brine, press it on a big stone, take it out ten days later, and hang it under the Chaoyang eaves to dry to welcome the New Year.