Xiaoman solar terms custom activities and health food

Xiaoman is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in summer. It means that the seeds of summer crops are full, but immature, just small and not full. The following are the customs, activities and health foods I have compiled for you, hoping to help you.

What are the customs and activities of Xiaoman?

1, offering sacrifices to Che Shen

Xiaoman Festival is in early summer, which is also the busiest season for farmers. In the old days, irrigation and drainage with waterwheels was an important event in rural areas, so there were folk activities to worship the car god in many places in Xiaoman solar terms.

2. Sacrifice to the silkworm god

According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god. During the farming period, people regarded silkworm as a thing in the sky. In order to pray for forgiveness and a good harvest in sericulture, a silkworm praying festival is held every April when silkworms are released.

3. Busy harvesting seeds

In the provinces of the Yellow River valley, April of the lunar calendar is the time to harvest wheat and thresh. 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.

4, around the three spirits

"Around Three Souls" is popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places. April 23 to April 25 of the lunar calendar is around Xiaoman solar term, which is called the carnival of Bai nationality.

Step 5 grab water

No matter in the north or the south, crops can't grow without water. Unless limited by natural conditions and without irrigation conditions, farmers have to rely on the weather to eat. As long as rivers and lakes can be irrigated, farmers will make full use of water sources and create conditions for the growth of crops. Summer temperature rise, long sunshine time and large water consumption are the key periods for the growth of most crops. Therefore, the importance of irrigation is obviously higher than other seasons.

The custom of "grabbing water" when I was young is actually a portrayal of the real life of farmers in Shanghai.

Small solar terms health food

1, wax gourd

It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving restlessness, and is suitable for summer heat, polydipsia, edema, dysuria, thirst quenching, drinking water, edema and dyspnea.

2. onions (surname)

It has the effects of regulating stomach, regulating qi, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, detoxicating and killing insects, and is suitable for chest distress, excessive expectoration and dysuria.

3. purslane

It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice and gingivitis.

4, crucian carp

It has the effects of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, weakness, thirst, edema and dysuria.

5. abalone

It has the effects of nourishing blood, softening liver, nourishing yin, clearing away heat, improving eyesight, promoting diuresis, and relieving arthralgia, and is suitable for internal heat due to yin deficiency, amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, galactorrhea due to yin deficiency, yang hyperactivity due to yin deficiency, night blindness cataract, and damp-heat stranguria.

6. Corn

It has the effects of regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for urinary calculi or edema of chronic nephritis, hypertension, anorexia, etc.

7.sorghum

It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, eliminating dampness and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for children's dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea due to damp heat, and diarrhea.

8. Coix seed

It is beneficial to diuresis, dampness absorption, spleen strengthening and diarrhea stopping, and is suitable for short and red urine, edematous beriberi, rheumatalgia, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, verruca plana, etc.

9, lentils

It has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating middle energizer, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for summer heat-dampness vomiting, spleen deficiency vomiting, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea and edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc.

10, Oenanthe javanica

It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for stranguria, hemorrhage, leukorrhagia, etc.

Why is there a small full and no big full?

Generally speaking, the sun is considered full when it reaches 60 degrees of the yellow meridian between May 20th and 22nd every year. Twenty-four solar terms: "In mid-April, things are small and full."

From the agricultural point of view, "Xiaoman" is not only related to the fullness of wheat grains in the north, but also to the abundant rain in the south. At this time, the winter wheat summer sowing crops in northern China entered the filling stage, the seeds were gradually full, and the harvest was just around the corner.

In the south, as the saying goes, "the river is full". With the increase of rainfall, rivers and lakes in the south of the Yangtze River are often rich in water. Otherwise, it means catching up with the dry and rainy year. Therefore, the word "full" here means more rain.

Xiaoman season is a busy farming season. At this point, silkworms begin to cocoon, which means that sericulture families are busy reeling. "Jia Qinglu" mentioned: "Xiaoman first came here, and the silkworm woman cooked cocoons, treated the reeling of cars and worked day and night."

Among the 24 solar terms, there are slight heat and great heat. There is a slight cold and a "great cold". But there is a small full, but there is no "big full".

Folklore experts explain that severe cold, slight cold and intense heat are extremely cold and hot periods. Because the duration of cold and summer is long, which is equivalent to two solar terms, and people just have no activity in cats in winter and summer, so they are divided into two connected solar terms.

"But during the spring planting and autumn harvest, the agriculture is busy, there are many things, and the solar terms themselves have distinct characteristics. There is no need to name two solar terms that are connected in size.