What are the characteristics and customs of Xiaoman solar terms?

1. According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, so when Xiaoman is in the solar term, there is a silkworm blessing festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. China's farming culture is a typical "male ploughing and female weaving". The raw materials for women's weaving are mainly cotton in the north and sericulture management in the south.

2. Sacrificing the car god is an ancient Manchu custom in some rural areas. In related legends, Erche God is a white dragon. People put fish, incense sticks and other items on the waterwheel to worship. The most interesting thing is that there will be a glass of white water during the sacrifice, which will be poured into the field during the worship, which means blessing the prosperity of the inkstone.

Eating wild vegetables is the custom of Xiaoman. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Bitter vegetables, bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrition, contain many vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol needed by human body, and have the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.

4, "Xiaoman" solar terms, the weather gradually turns from warm to hot, and precipitation will gradually increase. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, Guangdong has also entered the annual "Dragon Boat Water" period. Due to the active warm and humid airflow in the south of China, and the intersection with the cold air from north to south in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan and other places, there will often be continuous and large-scale heavy precipitation. Dragon boat water has come, and the water level of the river has risen rapidly, providing a good venue for dragon boat fishing.

For the northern region, there is little or no rainfall in Xiaoman, which is not as impressive as the rising temperature. Xiaoman solar term is often the one with the longest sunshine time among the 24 solar terms in northern China. The dry air in the north is much easier to heat than the humid air in the south, so when it is full, the temperature in some places in the north is easy to rise suddenly and quickly, and the temperature difference with the south is further narrowed.