{"id":17551,"date":"2020-01-05T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/24-solar-terms-light-snow-xiao-xue\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T03:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T03:25:38","slug":"24-solar-terms-light-snow-xiao-xue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/24-solar-terms-light-snow-xiao-xue\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Solar Terms: Light Snow \u5c0f\u96ea"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Light Snow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Introduction<\/strong><br \/>  \tWhen the sun reaches the celestial longitude of 240 degrees on November 22 to November 23 each year, it&rsquo;s the time for &ldquo;Light Snow&rdquo;. Some areas along the Yellow River start to snow. It&rsquo;s usually light snow, freezing in the night and melting in the morning. The soil is not cold enough, and snow can&rsquo;t accumulate a lot on the ground. During this period, the rainbow is gone since it doesn&rsquo;t rain anymore. The Yang Qi goes up and Yin Qi flows down and all things lost vitality.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Traditional Customs<\/strong><br \/>  \tTraditional food for this day is glutinous rice cake. In ancient times, glutinous rice cake is traditional sacrificial offerings. It&rsquo;s used by farmers to sacrifice for the &ldquo;God of Ox&rdquo;. Nowadays, it&rsquo;s a popular food in south China. After this day, farmers also start to make preserved meat, to eat in the coming Spring Festival.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Healthy Living Tips<\/strong><br \/>  \tIn order to prevent blood viscosity from increasing, it&rsquo;s better to eat food which can protect vascular, such as the root of red-rooted salvia, hawthorn, black fungus, tomato and celery. Food like balsam pear, corn, buckwheat and carrots can also reduce blood fat. When it&rsquo;s cold and damp outside, it&rsquo;s good to eat some temperately tonifying foods such as beef and mutton.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1209356466\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light Snow  \tIntroduction<br \/>\n  \tWhen the sun reaches the celestial longitude of 240 degrees on November 22 to November 23 each year, it&rsquo;s the time for &ldquo;Light Snow&rdquo;. Some areas along the Yellow River start to snow. It&rsquo;s usually light snow, freezing in the night and melting in the morning. The soil is not cold enough, and snow can&rsquo;t accumulate a lot on the ground. During this period, the rainbow is gone since it doesn&rsquo;t rain anymore. The Yang Qi goes up and Yin Qi flows down and all things lost vitality.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":192,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}