Characteristics and customs of light snow solar terms

Characteristics of light snow solar terms

1, the weather characteristics of Xiaoxue solar term are: cold weather; Cold air frequently goes south; Rainfall is scarce; It changed from rain to snow.

2. Many areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have entered the winter one after another, and the temperature in most parts of Northeast China has dropped below 0℃. After the light snow festival in the northern region, fruit farmers began to prune fruit trees and wrap the trunks with straw to prevent freezing.

3. Light snow is the twentieth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in winter. The time is165438+1October 22 or 23 of the Gregorian calendar every year, that is, when the sun reaches 240 degrees of the yellow longitude. Light snow is a solar term reflecting precipitation and temperature, and it is a solar term with high frequency of cold wave and strong cold air activity. The arrival of the light snow solar term means that the weather is getting colder and colder and the precipitation is gradually increasing.

The custom of light snow solar terms

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.

Eating "planing soup" is the custom of Tujia nationality. Before and after the light snow, Tujia people will hold the annual folk activity of "killing pigs to welcome the new year", which adds a warm atmosphere to the cold winter. In this folk activity, the delicious food carefully cooked with steaming first-class fresh pork is called "planing soup".

3. bacon

There is a folk custom of curing meat: "curing in winter, keeping it for the winter." This is because after the light snow solar terms, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which is a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and stored excess meat in the traditional way, so as to enjoy delicious bacon during the Spring Festival! The traditional habit of processing and making bacon not only has a long history, but also has universality.

Every year1February, that is, before "Xiaoxue" and "beginning of spring", every household has to kill pigs and sheep. Except the fresh meat enough for Chinese New Year, the rest of the fresh meat is salted with a certain proportion of spices such as pepper, star anise, cinnamon and clove. After 7- 15 days, hang it with a palm leaf rope and drip dry water to make it.

Choose cypress branches, sugarcane skins, Chinese toon skins or firewood to smoke and bake slowly, and then hang them up and smoke slowly with fireworks. Or hung on the top of the stove burning firewood, or hung on the oven burning firewood and smoked slowly with fireworks.

4. eat a gas bar

Some places in the south have the 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 is burnt with dew", which means that when offering sacrifices, Ciba is used as an offering.