What do you know about Miscanthus?

"Miscanthus", also known as "busy planting", is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the traditional lunar calendar, indicating the official start of the midsummer season and symbolizing the maturity of crops with awns such as wheat. Generally, awn seeds are sown around June 6 every year when the sun reaches the meridian of 75 degrees. The ancient book "The Seventy-two Seasons of the Moon Order" once recorded: "The May Festival means that there are awns in the valley."

In ancient China, mango seeds were divided into three stages according to time: "A mantis was born in one stage; Second, wait for Ming Peng; The third-class tongue is silent. "

Mang seed custom

Boiled plums

Legend has it that the custom of boiling plums originated in the Xia Dynasty. In the south, May and June are the ripe season for plums every year. Plum has many nutritional and health-care functions, but the fresh fruit of plum is sour and needs to be processed and eaten, which is boiled plum, and the most famous allusion of boiled plum is the "hero of plum cooking wine" in the Three Kingdoms.

flora

In ancient times, the flower god was greeted at the flower festival 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.

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.