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What are the customs of mango in the solar terms?

The solar festival custom of Mangzhong 1 fights in the mud.

Young Dong men and women in southeastern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting hemp.

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.

The custom of solar terms in the canopy II. Send flowers to god

On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower festival welcomes the flower god. 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.

The custom of solar terms in the sky 3. Boiled plums

Nanjing has the custom of "boiling green plums", and people in Lishui District are used to brewing green plum wine in the solar terms of mango. In the south, May and June are the ripe season for plums, which are picked and dried in the shade at home. On the day of the awning, the washed plums are soaked in white wine, which is generally 55 degrees. The formula is 65,438+00 kilograms of white wine, 3 kilograms of plums and 2 kilograms of rock sugar. The process of soaking green plums in wine is one month. This folk custom is closely related to the story of "green plum cooking wine on heroes" in the Three Kingdoms period.

Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums.

The custom of planting awns in solar terms 4. Marry a tree

When the solar term comes, fruit farmers will graft different fruit trees to make the fruits complement each other in shape and quality. Some simply cross the fruit tree with a knife, so that it can absorb the outside air and increase the fruit yield.

The solar terms custom of awn species 5. Anmiao

Anmiao is a kind of farming folk 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.

6, the custom of drying shrimp skin

At this time, fishermen along the coast are busy drying shrimps. 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".

There are two kinds of shrimp skin: raw shrimp skin and cooked shrimp skin. Sun-dried shrimp skin refers to the lightly sun-dried finished product, which has high freshness and is not easy to regain moisture and mildew; Boiled shrimp skin with salt, drained and dried, although it maintains the fresh flavor, its taste is slightly inferior to that of raw shrimp skin.