What are the six traditional folk customs of awn solar terms?

Mango is the third solar term in summer. As the name implies, awn seed is the growth and leakage of wheat grain, and the crop grain is full and mature. Mangzi is also popularly called "busy planting", which means that farmers are busy with farming, and friends seize the time to grab the harvest and sow and manage the fields. All kinds of awns are still very important solar terms. People have many customs to celebrate the arrival of Mangzi:

1. Solar Festival Customs of Anmiao and Mangzhong

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.

2. The solar festival custom around my ears-sending flowers to the gods

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.

3. The solar festival custom of Mangzhong-fighting in 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.

4. The solar terms custom of mango wedding 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.

5. The solar festival custom of mango-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.

6, Mang solar terms custom boiled plum

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.