The traditional food of the snack festival

The traditional delicacies of Xiaohan solar terms include Laba porridge, mutton and chicken soup.

1, Laba porridge: Laba porridge is made of eight kinds of ingredients such as glutinous rice, red dates, longan, coix seed and ginkgo. Laba eats a hot porridge with such rich content before and after the slight cold solar terms, which plays a role in dispelling cold.

2. Mutton: The slight cold is the coldest time of the year, and people are easily attacked by the cold. The quickest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton-padded coat, but a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm tonic food. If you cook it with some angelica, yam and carrot, and season it with green onions and ginger, it is recommended to eat it once a week, which will not get angry and make winter warm.

3. Chicken soup: Old Nanjing also has the tonic habit of eating a chicken and an egg every day on the ninth day of the ninth year, so chicken soup and eggs are indispensable on the table of citizens on the day of Xiaohan.

Natural landscape and agricultural activities

The slight cold solar terms have an important influence on the formation and change of natural landscape. With the sudden drop of temperature, the natural landscape in winter gradually emerges. The earth is covered with snow, and the mountains and rivers are covered with silver.

Lakes and waters began to freeze, forming a unique ice and snow landscape, attracting many tourists to watch. The slight cold solar term also marks the beginning of a long warm winter. At this time, plants begin to sleep, branches and leaves wither, showing a quiet and beautiful scene.

The slight cold solar terms have an important influence on agricultural activities. The ancients said, "An expert can understand cows, and a man can understand the changes of heaven and earth." This sentence illustrates the significance of the slight cold solar terms to farmers.

In this solar term, farmers should begin to prepare for next year's spring ploughing and sow the seeds of early spring crops in the fields. At the same time, slight cold is also the harvest season, and farmers need to pick and store agricultural products to lay the foundation for food security for one year.