Other seasonal correlation

Spring Festival From the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, every year on the day of "beginning of spring", the county will hold a Spring Festival party to worship the "country" (country is land and millet is food), and then the magistrate (county magistrate) will personally plow the farmland in the "Springfield" in the eastern suburbs for three times to show the beginning of spring ploughing. This cow, dressed in red and flowers, rode on a teenager disguised as "the God of Spring", paraded around the street in the sound of gongs and drums, and every household burned incense to welcome the spring. Although the ceremony was later cancelled, a bunch of bamboo and cypress trees were hung on the head of each gate, and a red note "Welcome to Spring" was posted on the wall, which has continued to this day. The name Springfield still exists.

Every day in the lunar calendar, there are two characters that are consistent with "heavenly stem" and "earthly branch", namely Jia and Ugly B …, and every May Day, especially the annual "five years" (Chen Wu and Wuyin …), you can't break ground, or even sweep the floor, take out the garbage or splash water. Say that May Day is the integration of heaven and earth; If you don't avoid e, the crops will be hit by water. This custom has been passed down to this day.

The "vernal equinox" is the fourth of the 24 solar terms in agriculture. People say that this day is the day when birds are divided into mountains. If plants are moved, crops will be hurt by birds. The old farmer still retains this custom today.

Please drink seedling wine. Safe sowing is the key to farming. Farmers regard planting rice (as the saying goes) as a happy event. They fully prepared food in advance, chose a good day for transplanting rice, took back the married girl, invited school teachers and friends they knew to drink rice transplanting wine and have a meal, including sweet wine and glutinous rice balls, and received them warmly early at noon. Ordering seeds (planting corn) also includes meals. It is still very common.

Farmers who plant corn crops by beating gongs and drums will hold a banquet if they are short of grass twice, and invite dozens or more people to mow the grass suddenly. This is called "beating gongs and drums" and can be divided into "beating gongs and drums" and "boring gongs and drums". The former is specially invited to sing, two people in a class, one gong and one drum, one sentence for each person, and seven words (there are also many words to grab the mouth), and each sentence is sonorous and powerful, and the song is loud and lively, also known as "playing Yang gongs and drums". There are three aspects in the lyrics: first, organize and guide the weeding people to set up competitions, pay attention to safety and exert their strength, and don't be negative and scold each other; The second is to publicize the national policies at that time; The third is to sing classical biographical stories. Those who don't sing, don't use firecrackers and bury their heads in weeding are called boring gongs and drums. Singers, people with a little salary, weeding, or helping or returning to work. This activity lasted until the 1970s. After the implementation of the land contract responsibility system, the labor efficiency has been improved unprecedentedly, and this kind of activity naturally stopped.

Seeking rain and peace often encounters drought. People ask Taoist priests to chant Buddhist scriptures, weld small porcelain vases with wax, and throw them into deep pools to ask the Dragon King to deliver water. Some dressed the dog and walked around the country with it, which made the audience laugh, thinking that laughing at the dog could rain. These things are barefoot and bare-chested, their heads tied with wicker, and the gongs and drums are loud, forming a vast crowd for several days, to no avail, and it rains occasionally. For example, there was a "Great Holy Temple" (the Monkey King statue) in the river brain of Puji, and there was a summer drought in the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937). The local people asked the Taoist priest to recite the scriptures and asked the Great Sage when it would rain. "Gua Shuo" asked a scholar to write a text and burn it to the sky. It will rain at 3: 30 noon tomorrow. Immediately, I went to see the old man Bai Hua overnight to do so. On the day of the long drought, it happened that he got what he wanted, so the Monkey King "showed great power" and became a legend. These nonsense and foolish behaviors were eradicated long after liberation.

In order to control insects, Taoist priests set up altars to recite scriptures and pray to the gods, which is called "fighting insects". During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, science was backward, there was no pesticide, crops suffered from diseases and insect pests, and farmers pinned their hopes on God. 195 1 year, Chilo suppressalis can be found everywhere in the eastern suburb of Pingli County and Taiping River field in Qiu Ping District, and its larvae are trapped in rice leaves. The county people's government immediately organized cadres and urban youth to catch insects, cut off the rice leaves damaged by insects and piled them into hills. Chickens and ducks had enough to eat, firewood was burned to death, and all the pests were destroyed in a few days. This experience was introduced to Taiping River, where farmers insisted on using the old method to control pests, and the county working group adopted the method of dividing acres and competing within a time limit. Within 3 days, all the artificial insects were removed and the seedlings turned green; The paddy field for blessing is so large, the seedlings wither and the insects flourish, and it's too late to regret it.

During the Republic of China, every autumn, strong middle-aged people came to Baogu to patrol and guard against theft. A pack of corn fields with more than ten households and ten stones (200 kg for each stone) is covered once and inspected every day. Such people are called "patrol husbands". At the main intersection of his guard range, a bamboo and wood sign was inserted, which read "so-and-so patrol guard". From the black beard of corn to the ripe harvested hemp skin, each stone paid about 5 liters of grain. If it is stolen by thieves, the householder will not only pay the full reward, but also double the compensation for the loss per kloc-0/barrel; If the patrolman catches the thief, he will be fined one plus ten. It is more effective to protect the autumn harvest.

Before the liberation of Laba porridge for fruit trees, few people cut off a bunch of thick stems of pear, walnut and other fruit trees on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, and fed them with Laba porridge, saying that it could avoid the fruit from falling when it was not ripe the next year.

Craftsmen have avoided eating leftovers for years. Craftsmen such as wood, masonry, stone and bamboo have come to work in people's homes. They don't eat boiled leftovers for their first meal. Some of them are unhappy, although they don't know how they feel. I think eating leftovers indicates rework.

Sacrificial kiln for firing pottery, bricks, lime, charcoal, etc. In rural areas. Before ignition, use pig's head, eggs and incense table to pay homage, and pray for the blessing of God and master to ensure smooth production. Now there are also sneaky "sacrificial kilns".

Treatment of Classical Swine Fever in Jiang Taigong In the old rural areas where science is underdeveloped, it is often seen that a note is posted next to the pigsty, which reads "Jiang Taigong (referring to Jiang Ziya) is here, pigs are not for sale" to prevent classical swine fever. Seasonal vegetables refer to those vegetables that are harvested, cultivated and managed artificially (or wild) according to their growth characteristics under natural environmental conditions. The biggest feature of these vegetables is that the harvest time is closely related to spring, summer, autumn and winter, so consumers call them seasonal vegetables. Eating seasonal vegetables has two advantages:

First, food and nutrition are better. Different vegetable varieties, because of their different genetic characteristics, adapt to different seasons and different environments, grow most vigorously, have the most abundant nutrition and taste the best under suitable conditions. Such as vegetables, adapt to low temperature climate, chicken feathers harvested in summer taste light, and vegetables harvested in winter taste sweet and glutinous, which is very refreshing. Experienced consumers know that frosted vegetables taste sweeter, because the starch in vegetables is hydrolyzed into maltose under the action of amylase at low temperature, and maltose is converted into water-soluble glucose, which increases the sugar concentration in cell sap, not only enhances the frost resistance of plants, but also increases the sweetness and taste. Another example is spinach in winter, which not only tastes sweet and glutinous, but also has eight times as many nutrients as spinach in summer. On the contrary, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables are adapted to grow in a higher temperature environment, and the vitamin C content of fruits harvested in July is twice that of 1 month. Therefore, in terms of nutrition and taste, seasonal vegetables can achieve perfect results.

Second, it meets the needs of human health. Confucius said, "When you don't eat, don't eat", which means that you should eat according to the season on time and what to eat in the season. There is also a folk saying that "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe medicine", which not only shows that radish and ginger are nutritious, but also from the perspective of Chinese medicine, radish is cool and ginger is a warm food. Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer can balance body temperature and reduce temperature, which is beneficial to human health.