Traditional customs of solar terms for awn species

Traditional customs of mango solar terms;

1, Anmiao: Anmiao is a farming custom in southern Anhui. Every season when rice seeds are planted in the sky, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities will hold an Anmiao festival. Every household will also use the newly bought wheat flour evaporation bag to knead the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dye it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice to pray for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

2. Send flowers to the gods: The second day of the second lunar month will welcome the gods of flowers, and when the awn seeds approach May, the flowers will begin to wither. People will hold a ceremony to worship the flower god on the day of awning seeds to express their gratitude to the flower god and look forward to meeting again next year.

3. Mud fighting: Young Dong men and women in Qiandongnan will hold a Mud Fighting Festival before and after. 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. Farming Festival: There is a farming festival in Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, which is held on the day of the awning. There is a legend in Yunhe Meiyuan: cattle are the grass managers in the sky. Because they sympathized with the human famine, they secretly planted grass seeds. As a result, weeds grew wildly and saved livestock, and the farmland was flooded with weeds, so farmers could not cultivate. In order to punish cattle, God ordered them to plow the earth until today.

5. Eating military food: There is a custom of eating military food when planting mangoes in Ningbo. Junzi cuisine is a seasonal vegetable around the solar terms.