What are the characteristics and customs of Xiaoxue solar term? When are they usually?

Light snow is the twentieth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in winter. The time is Gregorian calendar1October 22 or 23 165438, that is, when the sun reaches 240 degrees of the yellow meridian. The customs of Xiaoxue solar terms include pickling pickles, tasting Ciba, drying dried fish, eating slices of soup and brewing Xiaoxue wine.

The light snow solar term is characterized by the solar calendar 1 1 at the end of the month, and the temperature in the whole country generally drops sharply, indicating that winter is coming and the climate is getting cold. Not only the dew on the ground turned into frost, but also the rain in the sky turned into snowflakes. After the snow, the earth was covered with white clothes. But it hasn't reached the level of heavy snow, but the form of precipitation changes from rain to snow, and sometimes small ice particles like frost fall.

What are the customs of Xiaoxue Solar Term (1) in making sausage and bacon?

There is a folk custom of "storing wax in winter to keep out the cold". In the light snow season, the temperature drops suddenly and the weather becomes dry, which is a good time to process bacon. Some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and stored the remaining meat in the traditional way until the Spring Festival. Many places have the custom of eating bacon in winter, especially southern cities, which have a special liking for bacon. Guangzhou people like to make bacon radish cake with bacon, cook taro with bacon and stir-fry honey beans with sausage.

(2) Eat a motor bus

Some places in the south also have the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. Ciba is a kind of food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice, and it is a popular food in some areas of southern China. 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.

(3) drying the dried fish

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. Taiwan Province Province proverb: October beans are too fat to see the head, which means that you can catch "bean fish" in October of the lunar calendar in the cloth bag area of Chiayi County. ?

Light snow related proverbs 1. Xiaoxue can't afford to buy vegetables, so she will be frozen.

2. The ground is not frozen, and the plow keeps going.

It is not cold when it snows, but it is cold when it melts.

4. Light snow and heavy snow can't see snow, and pest control will be very busy in the coming year.

Onions are afraid of rain, garlic is afraid of sun, and many of them are rotten cabbages.

6. Fish depends on the weather, which is not as good as water.

7. Light snow and northwest wind will frost that night.

8. If the light snow doesn't cover, the heavy snow can still be cultivated.

9. Fish crosses a thousand layers of nets, and there are fish in the nets.

10. There is no snow in the light snow, so we should have a good rest next year.