The delicacies Daxue eats include: mutton, sweet potato porridge, and sugar.

1. Mutton For the northern people, it is already quite cold at this time. For example, there is a proverb in the Baotou area that "light snow kills pigs, heavy snow kills sheep." When the heavy snow season comes, it is the time to kill pigs to prepare for the New Year.

At this time, no matter whose family slaughters the livestock, relatives and friends will come to help, and the host will prepare food, wine, and side dishes for the banquet. Therefore, the light snow and heavy snow seasons are the time for family members and friends to reminisce and bond.

2. Sweet Potato Porridge After the heavy snow, the temperature gradually became colder. People paid great attention to keeping warm inside and outside the house, and put on winter clothes to prevent cold and frostbite.

There is a saying among the people in Northern Shandong that "Lukqi is at home and only drinks red sticky porridge", which means that when the weather is cold, he no longer visits the house and only drinks warm sweet potato porridge at home to survive.

3. Trying to make sweets with sweets. Whenever there is a "heavy snow" solar term, there will be a scene of "making sweets with sweets" on the streets of Wenzhou.

Caramel workshops in various places provide the full-size caramel made to small vendors who specialize in carrying burdens and walk around the streets, commonly known as "candy customers".

"Tangerke" banged the sugar knife and shouted to sell sweets.

Children are often attracted, and parents exchange copper scraps, coins, copper plates and other items at home for candy with "sugar customers".

Customs of the heavy snow solar term 1. Bacon meat in the heavy snow. There is a saying called "pickle vegetables in the light snow, marinate the meat in the heavy snow". One of the customs of the heavy snow solar term is to marinate meat.

When the heavy snow comes, every household will be busy making "salty goods".

Whether it’s poultry or seafood, traditional preparation methods are used to process fresh raw materials into fragrant delicacies to welcome the upcoming New Year.

2. During the heavy snow season, the north has the natural landscape of "thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow falling", while the south also has the charming picture of "thousands of miles of snowflakes flying and the sky filled with silver".

During the heavy snow season, as the temperature gets lower and lower, many rivers gradually become frozen, and people can enjoy the scenery of the closed rivers on the shore.

At the same time, the heavy snow season is also a good time to catch mullet.