Traditional foods during the Snowy solar term include sugar, mutton, dog meat, lotus root, and red sticky porridge.

1. 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 "tangerke".

"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".

Since eating malt candies in winter has the benefit of nourishing the body, this "sweetening" business has also developed into a business method.

2. Mutton "takes nourishment in winter and kills tigers in spring." The heavy snow reminds people to start taking supplements. The function of supplements is to improve the body's immune function, promote metabolism, improve chills, and survive the winter healthily.

Old Nanjing Daxue Tonic likes to eat mutton, which can dispel cold and nourish, replenish qi and deficiency, promote blood circulation, and enhance the ability to resist cold.

Mutton can also increase digestive enzymes and help digestion.

Experts suggest that eating mutton tonic in winter can be "mixed" with yam, wolfberry, etc. to make it more nutritious.

3. Dog meat As the saying goes, "dog meat is sold on a sheep's head." In fact, Wenzhou people have always said that "winter fragrant meat warms the stomach." This fragrant meat is dog meat.

The cold winter is the best time to eat dog meat for nourishment. It is recorded in the "Ming Dynasty Materia Medica" that "yellow dogs are greatly beneficial to people, and the remaining color is slightly nourishing".

4. Lotus root Lotus root grows in the silt and is the rhizome of the lotus. Speaking of the lotus, it has the reputation of "coming out of the silt but not stained, washing the water without being stained". The taste of lotus root is also very delicious and can be used to make many delicacies.

Stir-fried lotus root, glutinous rice lotus root, etc. are particularly popular among the public.

5. Red Sticky 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 out of the house 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.

Porridge can harmonize the stomach, nourish the spleen, and moisturize the lungs. It is an excellent choice for health preservation.

Millet porridge has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, soothing the stomach and sleeping, while sweet potatoes are also known to have the effects of "tonifying deficiency, replenishing qi and strength, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney yin", making people "longevity and less sick".