What are the folk activities of Mangzhong?

What are the customs of mango? Some interesting customs are counted in the mango season.

1, send flowers to God

On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower god is welcomed. There are flower welcoming gods and flower sending gods. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year.

Step 2 fight in mud

Young Dong men and women in the southeast of Guizhou Province hold a mud festival every year before and after planting awns. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, played with each other while planting rice seedlings and threw mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

3. An Miao

The custom of planting awns and protecting seedlings is a kind of farming custom activity in southern Anhui, and written records began 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. 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 the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

Step 4 cook plums

In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plums cook wine as heroes" in the Three Kingdoms. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums.

5. Ploughing festival

There is a "Plowing Festival" in Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, which is held on the day of Mango Festival in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar.

There is a legend in Yunhe Meiyuan: cattle are the grass managers in the sky. Because he sympathized with the human famine, he secretly planted grass seeds, and as a result, weeds grew wildly to save livestock, and the farmland was flooded with weeds, so farmers could not cultivate. In order to punish the cow, God ordered him to go down to earth to plow the fields until today.

Farming is the seasonal embodiment that farmers in mountainous areas around Yunhe Meiyuan begin to plow in spring. In the past, the ploughing festival was called "Ox King Festival".

6, hanging wormwood

If you live in the countryside, you should know that wormwood is a kind of plant that can be seen everywhere. It can repel mosquitoes. In May, the weather is hot and the bacteria are not growing well. It's time for wormwood to go out.

People will cut wormwood from the ground and leave it at the door. Others will dry the wormwood, then light it, and walk around the house for a week, and the mosquitoes will be driven away.