What customs do you have there, Mangzhong?

Ear seed is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, the third solar term in summer and the beginning of noon month in the trunk calendar. The twenty-four solar terms represent different meanings, and the awn species means "grain crops with awns can be planted". 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. It is a reflection of ancient farming culture in festivals, and there are also many customs in canopy season.

For example, we have the custom of cooking plums in the south.

In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plum Boils Wine as a Hero" in the Three Kingdoms. 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, the taste of green plum is sour, and it needs to be processed before eating, and this processing process is boiling plum.

2. Welcome the flower god.

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. But now this custom has disappeared, and you can see the scene in A Dream of Red Mansions where the flower god is practicing the mango festival.

3. Fight 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, 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.

4. An Miao.

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 bread with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice to pray for a bumper harvest and a safe and smooth life.

5. Farming Day.

There is a "Plowing Festival" in Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, which is held on the day of Mango Festival in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar. Farming is the seasonal embodiment that farmers in mountainous areas around Yunhe Meiyuan begin to plow in spring.

There is a legend in Yunhe Meiyuan: cattle are the grass managers in the sky. Because he sympathized with the human famine, he secretly planted grass seeds, and as a result, weeds grew wildly to save livestock, and the farmland was flooded with weeds, so farmers could not cultivate. In order to punish the cow, God ordered him to go down to earth to plow the fields until today.

6. Eat Junda vegetables.

In Ningbo, there is also the custom of eating gentlemen's dishes in the awning season. Junta cuisine is a seasonal vegetable of mango around the solar term in southern China. Locals believe that Junzi cuisine has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and eating Junzi cuisine in summer will not lead to prickly heat.