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Time passed quietly, to the fifteenth day. What are the theme activities of the Millennium Sun Festival?

Time passed quietly, and it was the fifteenth festival-the Millennium. As the saying goes, "The rain is before the cold dew, and the ghost is behind the cold dew", which means that where it snows in the cold dew season, it will suffer. Therefore, in the Millennium, there will be customs and habits of "covering the dew" all over the country. What are the theme activities of the Millennium solar terms and the Millennium farming activities! In August of the lunar calendar, the temperature is mid-spring, the golden wind is rustling, and the jade dew is majestic. Autumn has already arrived as scheduled.

What are the theme activities of the Millennium solar terms?

"Bird-hunting": yellowbird, short-tailed bird, is a kind of finch. Wudi people are fat because they eat rice, so they are called rice-headed finches. In August and September, the bird catcher caught the yellowbird, let it stand on the loyal club head, and taught it to raise the flag and peck the bell as a mobile phone game. After accessing clothes, they can fly back when they are released, which is called yellowbird. Children often keep yellowbird, tie a rope to its sole and carry it with them.

Cricket fighting: Generally, the mobile phone games of cricket fighting started around the cold dew in the south of the Yangtze River and ended after the Double Ninth Festival, which is called Qiuxing, also known as cricket fighting to earn achievements. During the competition, there are not only cricket courts, but also professional fighting equipment. In the case of fighting, everyone looked at each other with cages, and the scenes were magnificent in groups. Generally, the most combative crickets are called generals, the head, feet and length are the most important, and green, yellow, red, black and white are the best positive colors. The slugs should be similar in size, the same in net weight and evenly matched.

Cotton picking: Like Runze and Lulong in Hebei Province, Shishou and Guangji in Hubei Province, Yangxin in Shandong Province and Longan in Guangxi Province, women usually collect cotton wool for textile in September and work tirelessly day and night. To put it bluntly, this kind of scenery is outlined by the ancients who once wrote a poem: "The lamp Leng Ye is short, and the pillow is half full of chickens; Turn the clothes over and the fields will be full of wind chimes. "

Shoulu: Autumn dew is suitable. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that if you are cold for a long time, you can buckle it with a plate and fry it into a thick and graceful one, which can make people live longer. Luhanzhai has the effect of chilling, so it is advisable to decoct and take drugs that moisten the lungs, relieve cough and kill special diseases.

Cold dew farming activities!

Raising livestock/poultry

Be sure to do autumn and mating and breeding right away. Do a good job in the storage of winter wheat straw. Leave room for storage and store as much as possible. Large-scale rabbit farmers should do a good job in autumn breeding to make long-haired rabbits fully pregnant. Attention should be paid to the use of thermal insulation measures. Pigs should be disinfected and isolated. Do a good job of vaccination against goat pox. The laying period of breeding geese is approaching the prelude, so the nutritional components should be improved to ensure the nutritional components in the next laying period.

Cold dew farming activities: water injection and heat insulation

In this season, strong cold air is gradually active, and ultra-low temperature often occurs in autumn, which is harmful to heading and flowering of late rice, so it is necessary to prevent ultra-low temperature freezing injury and diseases. When strong cold air invades, water injection can be used to keep warm. Inject more than two inches of water before ultra-low temperature, and the temperature can be raised by 1~2℃. When the ultra-low temperature comes, the shallow water area can be irrigated day and night on sunny days; Pour thick water on rainy days; In dry and wet areas, the temperature is generally humid, with humidity as the main factor. This festival makes the summer heat fade away, the autumn colors are pleasant, the dew is cool, and the osmanthus fragrance is fragrant. It is a golden holiday season. "Cold dew" at the turn of summer and autumn, the daily average temperature changes greatly, and "cold dew is exposed". The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled should pay more attention to properly adjusting clothes and pants.