Little snow in the early winter of the month, the ground is not very cold.

Light snow today
“The sky and the earth are overcast, while the temperature is rain, and the cold is snow. When the weather is small, the cold is not deep and the snow is not heavy.” This is the description of light snow in the “Filial Piety Classic and Latitude”. “Light snow” is a metaphor, reflecting that the cold current is active and the precipitation is increasing during this solar term.

Xiaoxue · Custom
As the saying goes, “Pickled vegetables in light snow, pickled meat in heavy snow.” The customs of Xiaoxue’s solar term include pickling pickles, tasting Ciba, drying dried fish, eating gouged soup, brewing Xiaoxue wine, etc.

Eating Glutinous Rice Cake
Ciba is a southern festival food. At the earliest, it was a sacrifice made by farmers to the ox god. As the saying goes, “In the October Dynasty, glutinous rice cake is burned in Lu and Lu”, which refers to the sacrificial event.

Dried fish
When there is light snow, fishermen will start drying fish and storing dry food. As a Taiwanese proverb goes, the beans in October are too fat to see the head. It means that you can catch “bean fish” in October of the lunar calendar.

Cured meat
The folk custom is: “Preserve in winter and preserve it for winter”. Farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and stored the surplus meat with traditional methods.