Eat sliced soup, dried fish, pickled cold vegetables, eat Ciba, make wine, bacon, etc.

Light snow is the 2th solar term among the 24 solar terms and the 2nd solar term in winter, which falls on November 22nd or 23rd of the Gregorian calendar every year. Light snow is the second solar term in cold winter, which means that it snows in the north, and it is time for the south to get cold. The cold air begins to strengthen constantly, which is a turning solar term. In order to welcome light snow, there are also many customs in various places.

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before and after the light snow, Tujia people started the annual folk activity of "killing pigs and welcoming the new year", which added a warm atmosphere to the cold winter. Eating "planing soup" is the custom of Tujia nationality; In the folk activities of "Killing the Year Pig and Welcoming the New Year", the delicious food carefully cooked with the first-class fresh pork with hot air is called "planing soup".

Tujia farmers in Shipai Town, Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, use fresh pork from pigs that have just been killed in the past year to cook "soup", a traditional Tujia food, at home, to entertain relatives and friends.

drying dried fish is the custom of light snow solar terms. During light snow, fishermen on the seashore in central and southern Taiwan Province will start drying dried fish and storing dry food. When it snows, fishermen on the seashore in south-central Taiwan Province will start drying dried fish and storing dry food. The mullet group will come to Taiwan Province Strait before and after the light snow, and there are swordfish and sand fish. Taiwan Province proverb: October beans are too fat to see their heads, which means that in the cloth bag area of Chiayi County, you can catch "bean fish" in October of the lunar calendar.

cold vegetables will be pickled in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in east China during the light snow season. In Qing Dynasty, Li Tizhai described this scene in his Introduction to Zhenzhou Zhuzhi Ci: "After a light snow, people pickled vegetables, which is called' cold vegetables'." In addition, the glutinous rice should be fried and stored for soaking in boiling water in the cold winter. A local proverb says, "Fried glutinous rice is called' fried rice' and stored for winter." Wine is made on a light snow day, which is called light snow wine.

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 food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice, which is a popular food in some areas of southern China. In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in southern China, which was originally used by farmers to offer sacrifices to the cow god. There is a saying that "in October, Ciba Lu Lu Shao" refers to the sacrificial event.

there is a folk custom of "preserving wax in winter and preserving it to protect against winter". After a light snow, the temperature drops sharply and the weather becomes dry, which is a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and just enjoyed the food during the Spring Festival.