Miscanthus festival custom

Today is Mango Festival: the custom of boiling plums and sending flowers.

According to the meteorologist's report, today 15: 02, the sun reached 75 degrees of the yellow meridian and entered the solar term of awn species. Mango is the ninth of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is a festival named after phenology in ancient China. "Awn" refers to crops with awns such as barley and wheat. In June of the summer calendar, crops with awns such as wheat gradually matured and were about to be harvested. "Planting" is a seed, because the season of awning is the dividing point of crop planting opportunity. After the awning, the survival rate of crops is getting lower and lower in the really hot summer. The awning sowing date is the deadline for sowing autumn harvest crops, so it is the last time for sowing autumn harvest crops such as late rice, millet and millet, and the agriculture is busy, so it also means "busy planting".

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# \! f2 T！ Before and after 4} 8:E6} 6J4L awning sowing, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River continued to be rainy, the air was humid and the weather was sultry, and all kinds of articles were prone to mildew. People call this period "rainy season". So it is also the time when Huangmei matures, so "mildew rain" is also called "plum rain". Because Huangmei is sour, it is not convenient to eat directly and needs to be processed before eating, so farmers have the custom of boiling plums with mango seeds. & ampq/I； u `/e

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On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower festival welcomes the flower god. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. This custom no longer exists today, but we can get a glimpse from the twenty-seventh story of A Dream of Red Mansions by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin: "Those girls (in the Grand View Garden) are all tied up with colored threads, or woven with petals and willow branches, or stacked with brocade and tulle. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. Embroidered ribbons are flying in the garden and flowers are in full bloom. What's more, these people are all out of the wall, ashamed of the oriole, and can't speak for a while. ..... "The" thousand "in" Thousand Buildings "is a shield; Luo, Jing and Zhuang are all ancient flags. At the top of Luo flagpole is a yak tail flag. Jing is similar to Luo, except that it is decorated with colorful folded feathers, and the building shape is umbrella-shaped. It can be seen that the mango festival of a large family is a lively scene for the flower god to bid farewell.