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The origin of mans solar terms

"Twenty-four solar terms": "The May Festival means that there are awns and crops in the valley." It means that the seeds of crops with awns such as barley and wheat are ripe, 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 "awn seeds". Therefore, awn seed is a solar term that reflects agricultural phenology and represents the maturity of awned crops such as wheat.

Mango is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the third solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the midsummer season. When the sun reaches 75 degrees, it will cross the solar terms of mango. The literal meaning of awn seed is "the wheat with awn is harvested quickly, and the rice with awn can be planted". For most parts of China, harvesting in summer sowing in summer, sowing in summer and harvesting in autumn, managing spring seeds, and crossing harvesting, planting and management are the busiest seasons of the year.

What are the customs of mango?

When the southern plums were ripe, there was an allusion in the three countries that "the plums boiled wine and talked about heroes". So there is the custom of cooking plums with mango seeds. In addition, Mangzhong also has the custom of fighting mud battles. 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.