Xiaoxue solar term to keep healthy. What are the customs of Xiaoxue solar term?

　　Cured bacon

　　There is a folk custom of "pickling winter wax in the wind and storing it to survive the winter". After a light snowfall, the temperature drops sharply and the weather becomes dry, which is a good time to process bacon. After the light snow solar term, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and stored the excess meat using traditional methods to enjoy the delicious food during the Spring Festival.

　　Eat glutinous rice cake

　　In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating glutinous rice cake in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Ciba is a food made from steamed and pounded glutinous rice. It is a popular delicacy in some areas of southern China. In ancient times, glutinous rice cake was a traditional festival offering in the south. It was first used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying that "in the October Dynasty, glutinous rice cakes are burned in Lulu", which refers to the sacrificial event.

　　dried fish

　　When it snows, fishermen on the coast in central and southern Taiwan will start drying fish and storing dry food. Schools of mullet will come to the Taiwan Strait around the time of light snow, along with swordfish, shark, etc. Taiwanese proverb: October beans are so fat that you can’t even see the head. This refers to the fact that in the Budai area of ​​Chiayi County, “bean fish” can be caught in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

　　Eat shaved soup

　　Before and after the light snow, the Tujia people started the annual folk activity of "killing the New Year pig and welcoming the New Year", which added a warm atmosphere to the cold winter. Eating "shake soup" is a custom of Tujia people ； In the folklore activity of "Killing the New Year Pig to Welcome the New Year", the delicacy carefully cooked with the best fresh pork that is still hot is called "Pig Soup".

　　During the light snowfall of this year's lunar calendar, Tujia farmers in Shipai Town, Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, used fresh pork from freshly slaughtered New Year pigs to prepare the traditional Tujia delicacy "shaping soup" at home to entertain their relatives and friends.