1, Xiaoxue Solar Cured Meat

"Winter wax and wind pickling, storage to protect against winter". As soon as the light snow arrived, the temperature dropped sharply and the weather became very dry, which was a good time to process bacon. Therefore, many farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and it was just a delicious meal before and after the Spring Festival.

2, Xiaoxue solar terms eat Zanba

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. It is a popular food in some areas of southern China, and it is also a traditional festival sacrifice in southern areas. At the earliest, farmers used it to worship the cow god.

3, Xiaoxue solar terms eat soup.

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 a 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".

4, light snow solar terms dried fish

During the light snow, 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.

5, light snow solar terms pickles, reserve winter vegetables

In the light snow season, the weather in most places is already cold. You should know that fresh vegetables can be eaten in spring, summer and autumn, and vegetables can't be planted in winter, so you have to store them in advance, such as potatoes, Chinese cabbage, radishes, onions and other storable vegetables, which have become the main dishes on the winter table. In addition, people will pickle all kinds of pickles for winter consumption.