What are the customs of Xiaoxue solar terms?

Some places in the south also 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 first used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying that "in October, Ciba Shao" refers to sacrificial events.

2. bacon

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 enjoy food during the Spring Festival.

3. 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".

4. 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. 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.