What do you mean, mango? Is it Maimang's awn? What does this solar term mean?

Mango is the name of the solar term, 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.

The literal meaning of awn seed is "the wheat with awn is harvested quickly, and the rice with awn can be planted". The word "awn" of awn seed refers to the harvest of awned plants such as wheat, and the word "species" of awn seed refers to the season of sowing millet crops. The homonym of "awn seed" means that all crops are "busy sowing". The arrival of "Mangzi" indicates that farmers have started their busy field life.

The custom of planting awns and protecting seedlings is a folk activity of farming 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 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.