Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Mango often does activities in solar terms.

Mango often does activities in solar terms.

1, Flower God: Flower God welcomes flowers on the second day of the second lunar month. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. Some hang colorful ribbons on the branches of flowers, and some stick the fallen petals on the trees again, meaning that they will never fade.

2. Anmiao: Anmiao is a folk farming activity in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice. Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

3. Mud bucket: Young Dong men and women in Qiandongnan hold Mud bucket festival every year before and after mango planting. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, played with each other while planting rice seedlings and threw mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

4, drying shrimp skin: At this time, fishermen in coastal areas are busy drying shrimp. Because it is the season of awning, shrimp is in the spawning period, and its physique is fat, its meat quality is solid and its nutritional value is good. People call the dried shrimp skin at the awn seed stage "awn seed skin".

5. Boiling green plums: Nanjing has the custom of "boiling green plums", and people in Lishui District are used to soaking green plum wine in mango solar terms. In the south, May and June are the ripe season for plums. Plums are picked and dried in the shade at home. On this day, washed plums are soaked in white wine.