What folk activities are there in the snow festival?

Snow Festival Folk Activities: Snow Bacon.

There is a saying in old Nanjing called "light snow pickles, heavy snow pickles". Every household is busy pickling "salty goods" as soon as the solar term of heavy snow arrives. Add star anise, cinnamon, pepper, sugar, etc. Add salt and stir-fry until cooked. After the fried pepper and salt are completely cooled, they are coated on the inside and outside of fish, meat and poultry, and rubbed repeatedly until the color of the meat turns from fresh to dark and the surface oozes liquid. Then put the meat and the remaining salt in a jar, hold it down with stones and put it in a cool and backlit place.

Take it out after half a month, put the marinated marinade in a pot and add water to boil, skim off the floating foam, add the air-dried poultry meat, put it in the jar layer by layer, pour the brine, press it on a big stone, take it out ten days later, and hang it under the Chaoyang eaves to dry it to welcome the New Year.

Little is known about heavy snow and solar terms

On the day of heavy snow and solar terms, if the local temperature is warmer and there is no freezing frost, it is very likely that there will be cold weather at the end of next spring. In meteorology, spring cold refers to the phenomenon that it is warm in the early stage and cold in the later stage every spring (March to May), and the temperature in the later stage is obviously lower than normal.

The cold in late spring is mainly caused by long-term rainy weather or frequent invasion of cold air, or by strong radiation cooling on sunny nights under the control of cold anticyclone. If the average temperature in late spring is more than 2℃ lower than normal, it is considered as cold weather in late spring.