What does Mangzhong do?

Mango is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the third solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the midsummer season.

When the awn seeds arrive, summer sowing will be harvested in summer, and autumn seeds will be sown in the fields, and spring seeds will be managed. Harvest, planting and management cross, which is the busiest season of the year. In the Yangtze River valley, "transplanting rice seedlings and cutting wheat at both ends are busy", and in North China, "harvesting wheat and planting beans is not enough", which is really "ear planting".

Everything is very busy. Wheat has short maturity and strong harvest time. The change of weather has a great influence on the final yield of wheat. At this time, it is rainy along the Yangtze River, and the Huanghuai Plain is about to enter the rainy season. If there is continuous rain, strong wind and hail before and after the awning, and the wheat can't be harvested, threshed and stored in time, it will lead to the lodging, grain dropping, germination and mildew of the ear, "rotten wheat field" and destroy the crops in front of us.

The agricultural proverb "harvesting wheat is like putting out a fire, and taking grain from Longkou" vividly illustrates the tense atmosphere in the wheat harvest season. We should seize every favorable opportunity to cut, transport and fight. "Spring competes for the sun, and summer competes for the time." Generally speaking, the sowing date of summer crops should be as early as possible after wheat harvest to ensure sufficient growth period before autumn.