In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. Ciba is a kind of steamed and mashed glutinous rice, which is a popular food in some areas of southern China. In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in the south of China, which was originally used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying that "October, Baba" refers to sacrificial events.

In some places, Ciba is made into large and small circles, symbolizing harvest, celebration and reunion. Some places are also called rice cakes, and this name also means good luck. People often say: "rice cake, rice cake, long life."

2. 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, with swordfish and sand fish. Taiwan Province Province proverb: October beans are too fat to see the head, which means that in the cloth bag area of Chiayi County, you can catch "bean fish" in October of the lunar calendar.

3. Bacon

There is a folk custom that "winter wax hides the wind and hides it to keep out the cold". After the 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.

After the light snow, the fragrant bacon sausage became a popular delicacy on the table. How to make fried bacon sausage delicious and tender? The trick is simple: first, boil bacon and sausage in water. Secondly, it must be cooked in cold water. Only in this way can water slowly penetrate into the meat tissue and make the air-dried bacon sausage more moist.

Guangzhou people like to make bacon radish cake with bacon, cook taro with bacon, and stir-fry honey beans with sausage. In the cold weather in autumn and winter, open the clay pot rice with bacon and sausage, and the rice fragrance and meat fragrance come to the surface, and the two are seamlessly integrated. Warm and fragrant clay pot rice is the most delicious food in winter. When eating preserved foods such as bacon, fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C such as green pepper, bitter gourd and orange can be properly matched, which not only reduces the harm of nitrite, but also increases the nutrition of vegetables.

4, 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 carefully cooked with the first-class fresh pork by hot air is called "planing soup".