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What are the customs of Xiaoxue?

1, bacon

After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon and enjoy food during the Spring Festival. Hangzhou people often take advantage of this solar term to start pickling salted duck and bacon. It is a good time to pickle things because of the light snow and cold weather. At this time, the cured bacon can be taken out as the new year's goods and can be preserved for a long time, so the folk have the custom of curing bacon with light snow.

2. eat a gas bar

Ciba is a very popular food. Ciba's raw materials are mostly glutinous rice. In some places in the south, there is a custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. 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. Nowadays, people not only eat Ciba when it snows lightly, but it has become a kind of food that many people often eat in their daily lives.

3. 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. When people are drying dried fish, they usually choose some bigger fish. After washing the fish, they seasoned the fish according to their favorite tastes. Finally, they put the fish outside to dry, and then they can put the fish in the refrigerator.