Eight customs in Xiao Man

1, offering sacrifices to car gods is an ancient custom of some small rural men. In related legends, the second car god is a white dragon. In Xiaoman season, people will put fish, incense sticks and other objects on the waterwheel for worship. The most interesting thing is that there will be a glass of white water during the sacrifice, and the white water will be poured into the field during the worship, which means that the ink stone will flourish.

2. Sacrificing silkworms. According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, so the farming culture in China is a typical "male ploughing and female weaving" in the festival of praying for silkworms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

3. Look at the yellow tip of wheat. In Guanzhong area, every year when the wheat is about to mature, the married daughter will visit her family to meet the preparations for the summer harvest.

4. Busy parties in summer. Some places will hold lively parties in summer. Its main purpose is to exchange and buy production tools, buy and sell livestock and collect miscellaneous grains. The duration is usually 3-5 days, and there will be a big show.

5, offering sacrifices to the three gods, Xiaoman has the saying of "moving three cars". These three cars refer to waterwheels, ox carts and silk carts. ? "Sacrificing to the Three Gods" refers to offering sacrifices to the gods who are in charge of the three cars in Xiaoman season, praying for the blessing of the gods, good weather and abundant crops.

6, busy harvesting, the provinces of the Yellow River Basin, just busy harvesting wheat in April of the lunar calendar. Autumn rice is sown in the Pearl River basin, and cotton, wheat and soybeans are sown in the northeast. As soon as sorghum grows, weeds must be removed and inferior seedlings must be cut off. The solar term is the time when agriculture is busy.

7, grab water, crops can not grow without water, whether in the north or the south, unless there is no irrigation conditions due to natural conditions, farmers have to rely on the sky to eat.

8. Bitter vegetables "Zhou Shu" said: Bitter vegetables are displayed in Xiaoman days. As one of the earliest edible wild vegetables, Bitter vegetables are all over the country. Although the names of different places are different, their nutritional components and medicinal values are the same.