What are the customs of "light snow" in the twenty-four solar terms?

There is a folk custom that "winter wax is preserved against the wind and stored against the cold". After a light snow, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which was a good time to process bacon.

After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and stored the surplus meat in the traditional way until the Spring Festival.

Eat a ciba.

Cooked glutinous rice is mashed into paste.

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.

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.

A proverb in Taiwan Province Province says that beans are too fat to see in October, which means that you can catch "bean fish" in the Bagai area of Chiayi County in October of the lunar calendar.

eat 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 cooked with first-class fresh pork with still hot air is called "planing soup".

On the occasion of the light snow in the lunar calendar this year, Tujia farmers in Shipai Town, Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture cooked the traditional Tujia cuisine "soup" with freshly slaughtered pork at home, ready to entertain relatives and friends.

Climatic characteristics

The temperature in the light snow stage is lower than that in winter. Speaking of light snow solar terms, it means that there will be snowfall in North China. The cold air gradually brought the temperature below 0℃ in most parts of northern China.

The average first snow period in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River is basically the same as the light snow solar terms. Although it began to snow, the amount of snow was generally small, and it was frozen at night and turned around by day. If the cold air is strong and the warm and humid air flow is active, it may also snow heavily;

Winter begins in the northern part of the southern region. "There is no rain in the lotus, but there are still Ao Shuang branches in the chrysanthemum", which shows the scene of early winter.