What do you mean things are so small and full?

At this time, the seeds of summer sowing crops such as wheat in the northern region have begun to be full, but they are not yet mature, which is equivalent to the late stage of milk ripening, so it is called Xiaoman.

Starting from the twenty-four solar terms. Original: Xiaoman, mid-April. Small and complete, things are small and incomplete.

In ancient China, Xiaoman was divided into three stages: waiting for bitter vegetables to appear, waiting for weeds to die, and waiting for wheat to arrive in autumn. In other words, after the full solar terms, bitter vegetables have flourished; After that, some soft grass with shady branches began to die in the strong sunlight; In the last period of Xiaoman, wheat began to mature.

Judging from the climate characteristics, from Xiaoman solar term to the next Mang solar term, all parts of the country entered summer one after another, the temperature difference between north and south further narrowed, and precipitation further increased.

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Xiaoman's Folk Custom-Sacrificing Silkworms

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. Silk needs to be spun from cocoons, so sericulture is extremely prosperous in rural areas in southern China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Silkworms are pampered "pets" and are difficult to feed. Temperature, humidity, cold, mature, dry and wet mulberry leaves will all affect the survival of silkworms. Silkworms were regarded as a "godsend" in ancient times because they were difficult to raise. In order to pray for the forgiveness of "natural things" and the harvest of sericulture, people hold a silkworm prayer festival when they release silkworms in April.

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