Seasonal snow eat mutton, cured meat, sweet potato porridge, caramel and pig's feet.

1, mutton

"Winter tonic, the beginning of spring to fight the tiger", every winter, mutton becomes the best food. In Nanjing, the folk popularity of eating mutton during the snow, in most northern areas, during the snow, people will eat a bowl of hot mutton or mutton soup.

In the Baotou region of Inner Mongolia, there is a "small snow to kill pigs, snow slaughter sheep", every snow festival, is the slaughter of sheep to prepare for the New Year's Eve, people will also eat freshly slaughtered lamb on the day of the festival.

2, cured meat

The folk saying "small snow pickles, snow cured meat". After entering the snowy season, the temperature drops, outdoor dry, is also the best time to cured meat. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Southwest China, the snowy season, many people began to busy curing salted meat, sausage and other New Year's "salty goods". There are also areas of drying cured meat will be used short bamboo strips, thin rope to wear up, meaning that the prosperity of the year, year after year.

3, caramel

In the northern regions of China, the snowy season has the custom of eating caramel. Caramel, also known as sugar thins in folklore, will appear on the street every snowy season to sell caramel vendors, attracting many children to buy.

In Wenzhou, the caramel seller is called "Sugar Guest", before and after the snow festival, children or adults will be home to the copper scrap, copper coins and other objects to be used with the "Sugar Guest" exchange caramel.

4, sweet potato porridge

The temperature after the snow festival is gradually becoming colder, in parts of northern Shandong, people will reduce the door, the diet will choose to drink warm sweet potato porridge.

5, pig's trotters

Pig's trotters are rich in collagen, snowy weather is dry, the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors is big, snowy time is very eat a little bit of collagen-rich pig's trotters.