What are the traditional activities?

Although I know a little about the 24 solar terms in a year, I also know some solar terms and some things that should be done in this solar term, but it seems that I have never heard of this solar term, and it is very strange to hear the name. So what is the specific meaning and name of this solar term, and what are the traditional activities?

The name meaning of mango

Mans seeds mean that grains with awns can be planted. At this time, midsummer has arrived, the wheat in the north is yellow, and the plums in the south are ripe. In the season of entering the canopy, the temperature will continue to rise, the rainfall will be abundant, the air humidity will increase slowly, and the flood season in Beijing has arrived.

Mang is a festival in May. This awn refers to rice and wheat. At this time, wheat began to mature, and the fields began to be filled with the fragrance of new wheat. Rice can't be planted at this time, and the rice fields are already a pleasant new green.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Ma Yongqing distinguished in his notes "Record of Lazy True Son" that when there is awn, the wheat is ripe, which means that the wheat can be harvested when it is ripe, and rice cannot be planted at this time.

The word "awn seed" was first put forward by Zecao in Zhou Li. It was sown with awn seeds. Zheng Xuan's explanation in the Eastern Han Dynasty is that the land where Zecao was born can be planted with awn seeds, awn seeds and rice and wheat.

Traditional activities of mango seeds

flora

On the second day of the second lunar month, Flower God will be welcomed at the flower show. It has been nearly May since the seeds of awn. At this time, the flowers will begin to wither. People often hold ceremonies to worship the flower god in Mangri, and at the same time express their 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: the girls (in the Grand View Garden) are all tied with colored threads, or made into sedan chairs with petals and willow branches, or made into thousands of floors 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, and they are ashamed of the oriole, and they can't say enough for a while. Thousands of buildings are shields; Luo, Jing and Zhuang are all ancient flags. It can be seen that the mango festival of a large family is a lively scene for the flower god to bid farewell.

Anmiao

Anmiao is an agricultural folk activity in southern Anhui, which originated in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice at this time. Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for a bumper harvest of five grains and hoping to protect the villagers' safety.