Over the past thousands of years, the twenty-four solar terms have profoundly affected people's lives, and there are many folk sayings related to solar terms. Among them, the sentence "eat, drink, and enjoy the river" summarizes the four major customs during the heavy snow solar term.

So let us understand together what are the four major customs of the Snow solar term.

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There is a saying in old Nanjing, "pickle vegetables in light snow, pickle meat in heavy snow".

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.

Why does Daxue marinate meat?

According to legend, in ancient China there was a monster called "Nian" with a sharp horn on its head and it was extremely ferocious.

"Nian" lives deep on the bottom of the sea all year round. Every New Year's Eve, he will climb ashore to hurt people.

In order to avoid harm, people stay at home at the end of the year.

Therefore, before the "year" comes out, a lot of food must be stored.

Meat, fish, chicken, duck and other meat products cannot be stored for a long time, so Nanjing people came up with a way to marinate and store these meat products.

For fresh vegetables, people use the air-drying method.

Add large salt, star anise, cinnamon, Sichuan peppercorns, white sugar, etc. to a pan and stir-fry until cooked. After the fried Sichuan peppercorns and salt are cool, apply them on the inside and outside of fish, meat and poultry, and rub them repeatedly until the color of the meat changes from fresh to dark, and liquid seeps out from the surface.

When it comes out, put the meat and the remaining salt into the jar, press it with stones, and put it in a cool and backlit place. Take it out after half a month, put the marinated marinade into the pot, add water to boil, skim off the foam, and put it in the jar.

Put the dried poultry and livestock meat in the vat layer by layer, pour in salt brine, and press it with big stones. After ten days, take it out and hang it under the eaves of the sunny house to dry in the sun to welcome the New Year.

2. Eat sweet potato porridge. After the heavy snowfall, 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.

Sweet potatoes contain lysine, which is lacking in rice and flour. Lysine can promote the maturation of human epithelial cells and can bind anti-cancer factors to proteins in cells, which can improve the body's resistance. Eating sweet potatoes in autumn and winter also has the effect of preventing dryness, but

Can't eat too much.

Middle-aged and elderly people with weak spleen and stomach should drink more sweet potato porridge because it is easy to digest, protects the gastrointestinal tract, and promotes gastrointestinal movement, making defecation easier and getting rid of constipation.

It is best to eat sweet potatoes with some pickles, which can effectively suppress gastric acid.