What is the date of Xiaoman solar term?

Xiaoman is between May 20th and 22nd of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Xiaoman is one of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the second solar term in summer when the sun reaches 60 degrees on May 20-22 every year. The time of xiaoman is different every year, but it is around this time, and it will get hotter and hotter after xiaoman.

Xiaoman symbolizes a just right state. During the solar term of Xiaoman, the grains of summer crops such as wheat began to fill, but Xiaoman was not completely full, symbolizing that everything was just right. When the moon is full, it will lose money, and when the water is full, it will overflow. Too much is not good. After everything reaches the extreme, it will inevitably go downhill. When I was young, I would be full and everything would be just right.

Brief introduction of water grabbing in Xiao Man

When it is full, the precipitation in the south begins to increase and there is plenty of rain. The main irrigation tool in ancient times was the waterwheel. "Snatching water" is a folk farming custom held during the solar term of Xiaoman, and irrigation and drainage with waterwheels is a major event in rural areas. As the saying goes, "a small man moves three cars (three cars refer to silk cars, oil cars and water wheels)." Start the waterwheel when it is full.

Popular in Haining, Zhejiang. When this ceremony is held, many elderly deacons gather in various households, light torches at the dawn of the agreed date, eat wheat cakes, wheat cakes and wheat balls on the foundation of the waterwheel, and when the deacons take drums and gongs as their numbers, a group of people set foot on the waterwheel installed in advance on the river, and dozens of cars tread together to lead the river to people's fields until it dries up. Dry weather is prone to occur in the small full season, which is very unfavorable to crops. In the past, farmers used water trucks to irrigate and drain water to alleviate drought.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiaoman.