Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Mang seed custom

Mang seed custom

Custom 1: Send flowers to God.

In the season of awning, flowers began to wither and wither. In some folk places, people will hold a grand activity of sending flowers to God on the day of the awning, which is intended to send flowers to God's place and express people's gratitude to God. I hope to see you again next year. However, there seems to be no such custom now.

Custom 2: Boil plums

In the awning season, the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River is coming, and it is also the season when plums mature. In the ancient Three Kingdoms period, the allusion of "Green Plum Boiling Wine as a Hero" and "Looking at Plum to Quench Thirst" has been passed down to this day. Therefore, boiling plum is a common dietary custom of mango.

Custom 3: An Miao

Anmiao is mainly a sacrificial activity in southern Anhui, which is said to have originated in the early Ming Dynasty. After the rice is sown in the ear sowing season, people will hold an Anmiao sacrificial activity in various places to pray for a bumper harvest in autumn, so as to pray for a bumper harvest and the safety of villagers.

The origin of mango:

The awn seed is a symbol of the maturity of awned crops such as wheat and a solar term reflecting agricultural phenology. At this point, the wheat harvest season in Sichuan basin has passed, and the transplanting of mid-season rice and sweet potato is coming to an end. In most areas, the mid-season rice has entered the green stage, and the seedlings are green and full of vitality. The poem "The east wind dyed 3,000 hectares, and the herons kept coming and going" vividly described the beautiful scenery of the field at this time.

In the awning season, the medium rice that has not been transplanted in the basin should be planted quickly; If it is postponed again, the vegetative growth period of rice will be shortened due to the increase of temperature, and the growth period will be easily affected by drought and diseases and insect pests, and the yield will inevitably be low. Osmunda japonica should be transplanted before summer at the latest; If sowing is too late, not only the drought will worsen, but also the temperature will drop in Qiu Lai, which is not conducive to the expansion of potato chips and the yield will be significantly reduced. This is the truth of the agricultural proverb "busy planting".