What are the folk customs in the light snow season?

Folk customs in the light snow season include drying dried fish, eating a piece of soup and brewing new wine.

1, dried fish

Generally, during the light snow solar term, 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. There is a proverb in Taiwan Province Province that "beans are too fat to see in October", which means that in the area of Budai Town in Chiayi County, you can catch "beans and fish" in October of the lunar calendar.

2. 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".

Step 3 brew new wine

The wine cellar in the first ten days of the lunar calendar is called October White. Making wine with pure white flour, white rice and spring water is called Sanjiu wine. Add a few peach petals in spring, also called peach blossom wine. Jiangshan area draws well water to make wine in winter, and hides it for drinking when peach blossoms bloom in the next spring, which is called peach blossom wine.

The origin and meaning of light snow

The term "light snow" in the name of light snow solar terms means that the temperature drops and the sky begins to snow, but the amount of snow is small, so it is called "light snow". The origin of light snow solar terms can be traced back to the Warring States period, when people changed the sky and temperature difference.

Divide a year into 24 solar terms to guide agricultural production. The specific time of the light snow solar term is1October 22nd or 23rd every year, 165438+, when the sun reaches 240 degrees of the yellow meridian.

Light snow solar term means that winter comes, the temperature drops gradually, the weather turns cold gradually, and it begins to enter the driest season of the year. At the same time, the light snow solar term is also an important period to remind people to pay attention to warmth, health and health care.