Traditional foods that are often eaten during the solar term in heavy snow include jiaozi, dog meat, eight-treasure rice, mixed sugar, red sticky porridge, mutton, lotus root, winter jujube and so on. Heavy snow is the second1solar term among the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in winter. "twenty-four solar term" said: "Heavy snow, November Festival. The big one, sheng also. At this point, the snow is full. " Snow solar term is a climate concept, which represents the climate characteristics during the snow solar term and reflects the climate change during this solar term. The cold current is active, the temperature drops and the precipitation increases.

There has always been a folk saying in China that glutinous rice is eaten during heavy snow. Because glutinous rice can supplement the substances needed by the human body, the body will get hot after eating, which can keep out the cold and warm the stomach. The most typical food made of glutinous rice is eight-treasure rice.

After the heavy snow, the temperature gradually became cold. People paid great attention to keeping warm indoors and outdoors, and put on winter clothes to prevent freezing and frostbite. There is a saying among the people in northern Shandong that "when the door is blocked, people only drink red sticky porridge", which means that it's cold and no longer visits, but only drinks warm sweet potato porridge at home.

"Tonifying in winter, killing tigers in spring", China people like to supplement mutton after heavy snow and solar terms. Eating mutton can enhance their ability to keep out the cold. Eating mutton tonic in winter can be "mixed" with yam and medlar, which is more nutritious.