What farming activities are there in the awning season?

Agricultural activities in the heading season: cutting rice, harvesting corn, digging red and growing vegetables.

The arrival of solar terms means that crops with awns such as wheat are mature, and it is very urgent to grab the harvest. Summer sowing crops such as late rice, millet and millet are also the busiest season for sowing, so they are also called "busy sowing".

The folk customs of Mang solar terms are as follows:

1. Cooking Huangmei

Before and after mango seeds, it is the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Huangmei is ripe at this time. Because Huangmei is sour, it is not convenient to eat directly, so it needs to be processed before eating. Therefore, many farmers in this area have the custom of cooking plums with mango seeds.

2. Flower Festival

In some areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there is also the custom of holding a "flower party" on the day of ear planting. The local people believe that it is summer after the awn is planted, the flowers wither and the flower god abdicates, so it is necessary to arrange various gifts for the flower god to see him off. Some people hang flowers on silk to show off.

Cao Xueqin wrote in the 27th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions: "On this day, those girls, either making sedan chairs with petals and willow branches, or making thousands of floors with brocade gauze, were tied up with colored threads. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. The embroidered ribbons in the garden are fluttering, and the flowers bloom and fall. " "Gan" in "Gan Lou".

That is, the shield; Jing and Zhuang are ancient flags. At the top of Xi flagpole is a yak's tail flag. Jing is similar, but the difference is that it is decorated with colorful folded feathers, and the shape of the building is umbrella-shaped. It can be seen that the mango festival of a large family is a lively scene for the flower god to bid farewell.

3. An Miao

Anmiao is a folk farming activity in some areas of 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.

Fight 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, playing with each other while planting rice seedlings and throwing mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.