What are the customs of Xiaoman solar terms?

What are the customs of Xiaoman solar terms?

There is a saying in Jiangnan that "a villain moves three cars". It is an image summary of Xiaoman farming in the south of the Yangtze River. The so-called "three cars" are waterwheels, spinning wheels and oil trucks. In agricultural proverbs, people use "fullness" to refer to the abundance of rain. Xiaoman is the season of topdressing early rice and transplanting middle rice in Jiangnan. If the field is not filled with water, it will crack and cannot be transplanted, which will affect the harvest of crops.

Therefore, in the year of drought, people will consider it early and arrange it skillfully, and use human or animal power to drive waterwheels to irrigate paddy fields. Walking in the paddy fields of remote ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, we often saw buffaloes blindfolded and turning the wooden wheels of the waterwheel to drive the keel waterwheel to carry water, or people pedaling alternately with their feet to carry water.