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What activities will people have on the day of the solar term Song Dynasty?

Twenty-four solar terms customs:

1, beginning of spring: It is the "cow" who fights for spring, that is, persuading farmers to plow in spring and praying for a bumper harvest; In addition to playing spring, there is also the custom of biting spring on this day, that is, eating spring cakes, eating spring vegetables, biting radishes and so on.

2. Rain: On this day, the married daughter will go home to visit her parents with gifts. A woman who gives birth to a child must bring a pot of meat, a chair and other gifts to thank her parents for raising her.

3. Stunned: Sacrificing the white tiger to distinguish right from wrong: it is a paper that worships the white tiger painting. Paper tigers are usually yellow with black stripes and have a pair of fangs on their mouths.

Feed pig blood when you worship, so that it won't hurt others, and then put raw pork on the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it will be full of oil and water.

4. vernal equinox: there will be activities such as laying eggs, sending pictures of spring cows and sticking birds' mouths on this day, and the Spring Festival is here.

5. Qingming: In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are also a series of folk sports activities such as hiking, swinging, cuju, polo and willow insertion.

6. Grain Rain: Prohibition of killing five poisons: When farmers enter the fields to kill insects, they stick Grain Rain stickers and pray to drive away evil spirits.

7. Long summer: On this day of long summer, the ancient emperor led hundreds of officials and bureaucrats to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. All the officials and ministers wore bright red dresses and jade ornaments, even the horses and car flags were bright red to express their desire for a bumper harvest and good wishes.

8. Xiaoman: There is a saying in Jiangnan that "Xiaoman moves three cars". The so-called "three cars" are waterwheels, spinning wheels and oil trucks.

Xiaoman is the season of topdressing early rice and transplanting middle rice in Jiangnan. If the field is not filled with water, it will cause the ridge to dry up and it is impossible to transplant rice seedlings, so people use manpower or animal power to drive the waterwheel to irrigate the paddy field.

9. Ear seed: The flower god greets the flower god at the flower festival on the second day of the second lunar month. There will be Miao farming custom activities in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty, praying for a bumper harvest and the villagers' safety.