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What is the origin of the name mango?

The awn seed is one of the traditional twenty-four solar terms in China, and its name has a long history, which means "you can grow food crops with awns". This season, the temperature rises obviously, the rainfall is abundant and the air humidity is high, which is suitable for planting cereal crops such as late rice. Agricultural planting is bounded by the solar term "awn seed", and the survival rate of planting has become lower and lower since then.

The solar term of awn seed is of great significance in agriculture and guides agriculture. In southern rice areas, "awn seed" is the peak season for transplanting rice. The northern region is dryland agriculture, and wheat is the main food crop. This season is the harvest season of the northern summer crop wheat. The arrival of "Mangzi" marks another round of busy farming. People in the south are busy transplanting rice seedlings and harvesting wheat in the north.

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folk-custom activities

1, Anmiao

The custom of planting awns and protecting seedlings is a kind of farming custom activity in southern Anhui, and written records 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.

Step 2 cook plums

In the south, May and June are the ripe season for plums every year. During the Three Kingdoms period, there were allusions to "childhood wine-cooking heroes". 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.

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