24 Solar Terms | Minor Snow (3)

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Eating glutinous rice cakes

In many areas of Southern China, people eat glutinous rice cakes during Minor Snow. In these places, there's a saying:"十月朝，糍粑碌碌烧." In this saying, "碌（lu）" means that people use their chopsticks to pick up a glutinous rice cake and roll it like a wheel in a bowl full of sesame and peanut sugar, and "烧（shao）" indicates that the glutinous rice cakes are steaming hot.