What food does Xiaoxue eat in solar terms?

Food that can be eaten in light snow solar terms:

1, eat instant-boiled mutton

In northern China, most people want to eat instant-boiled mutton in the light snow season, because the light snow solar term is a solar term with high frequency of cold wave and strong cold air activity. At this time, the temperature will drop faster, so we should eat some warm and cold-resistant food to resist the cold and improve the body's resistance. Mutton is warm and nourishing, which has the functions of nourishing yin and blood, benefiting fatigue, warming the middle warmer and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and keeping out the cold. It is very popular in winter.

2, planing 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 the Year Pig to Welcome the New Year", the delicious food cooked with the first-class fresh pork with still hot air is called "planing soup", which is very suitable for health preservation in winter.

3. Bacon

There is a folk custom of "storing wax in winter to keep out 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. Many places have the custom of eating bacon in winter, especially southern cities, which have a special liking for bacon.

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.

5. pickles

There is a saying in old Nanjing, "light snow pickles, heavy snow pickles". In the past, limited by conditions, fresh vegetables were scarce and expensive in winter, so people used to pickle vegetables before and after light snow, and they relied on these pickled foods for eating in winter.