What is the meaning of Big Snow and Little Snow on the calendar

The Big Snow and Little Snow on the calendar represent two of the 24 solar terms. Like the Lesser Snow festival, the Greater Snow festival is a festival that reflects the trend of temperature and precipitation changes, and it is a reflection of the ancient farming culture for the festival.

Little Snow, the 20th of the 24 solar terms and the second solar term in winter, falls on Nov. 22 or 23 of each year's Gregorian calendar. The arrival of Little Snow means that the weather will get colder and the amount of precipitation will gradually increase.

Daxue (大雪), the 21st of the 24 solar terms, is the 3rd solar term of winter. It is celebrated on December 6-8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Daxue festival is the beginning of the dry calendar son month, marking the official start of the mid-winter season. It is a festival that reflects the characteristics of the climate, and is characterized by a significant drop in temperature and an increase in precipitation.

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I, Snow Festival folk

1, pickled bacon

Folk "winter wax wind pickled, stored in order to protect the winter" custom. After the snow, the temperature dropped sharply, the weather became dry, is a good time to process bacon. After the snowy season, some farmers began to do sausage, bacon, the excess meat with the traditional method of reserves, until the Spring Festival just to enjoy the food.

2, eat patties

In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating patties in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Mochi is a kind of food made by steaming and pounding glutinous rice, which is a popular delicacy in some parts of southern China. In ancient times, mochi was a traditional festival offering in the southern region, and was first used by farmers to offer sacrifices to the bull god. There is a saying that "in the October morning, the patties are burnt", which refers to the sacrificial event.

3, dried fish

Fishermen on the coast of south-central Taiwan will start drying fish and storing dried food during the Little Snowy season. Swarms of blackfish will come to the Taiwan Strait around the time of the Little Snow, in addition to sailfish and sandfish. The Taiwanese proverb: "October beans, so fat that you can't see your head" refers to the fact that in the area around Bu Bu Dai in Chiayi County, "bean fish" can be caught in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

The 24 Seasons Song

Spring rain startles the spring and clears the valley days, and summer is full of mango and summer is connected to the summer heat.

Autumn dew autumn frost fall, winter snow snow winter small cold.

The two sections of the month do not change, but differ by one or two days at most.

The first half of the year is six twenty-one, and the second half is eight twenty-three.