What are the folklore of Xiaoman What are the folklore of Xiaoman?

1, worship car god

Sacrifice car god is some of the rural areas of the old Xiaoman custom. In the related legend, the "car god", is a white dragon, not Schumacher Oh! In the Xiaoman festival, people put fish, meat, incense and candles on the waterwheel on top of the worship, the most interesting part is that there will be a cup of white water in the offerings, the worship will be thrown into the field, there is a blessing of the meaning of the source of the water surging prosperity.

2, silkworm sacrifice

Small full of rumors for the birth of the god of silkworms, so Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the small full of the festival during a prayer silkworm festival. China's farming culture to "men plowing and weaving" as a typical. The raw materials for women's weaving are mainly cotton in the north and silkworms in the south. Silkworms need to rely on silkworm cocoons and silk, so China's southern rural sericulture is extremely prosperous, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Silkworms are pampered "pets", it is difficult to live. Temperature, humidity, mulberry leaves, cold, ripe, dry, wet and so on all affect the survival of silkworms. Because of the difficulty of raising silkworms, the ancient silkworms as "heavenly creatures". In order to pray for "heavenly" forgiveness and silkworms have a good harvest, so people in April when the release of silkworms held a praying silkworm festival.

3, move three cars

Jiangnan area has a "small full of moving three cars," said some places called "sacrifice three cars", three cars refers to the water car, silk car, oil car. Small full for farmers, is a busy time, this time to ensure that the fields of water, such as drought and little rain, you need to use the water car to draw water for irrigation; at this time of the season, the spring silkworms began to spit cocoons, silkworm women are busy repairing the silk car, began to boil cocoons and reeling; fields of rapeseed is also ripe, harvesting, seeding, threshing, drying, and finally sent to the oil mill to press oil. Waterwheel, silk car, oil car triple turn, so there is a "small full of moving three cars, busy do not know him" of the agricultural proverb.

4, grab the water

Old waterwheel car water irrigation for the rural areas, "grab the water" is circulating in the area of Haining, Zhejiang agricultural customs, held this ceremony, more than by the elderly deacon called the households, torches at dawn, in the waterwheel base to eat wheat cake, wheat cakes, wheat dumplings, to be the deacon to drums and gongs for the number, the group to beat the instrument and When the deacon calls out with a drum and gong, a group of people will step on the pre-loaded waterwheels, and dozens of waterwheels will be stepped on at the same time to divert the water from the river into the fields.

5, eat bitter vegetables

Bitter vegetables is one of the earliest Chinese people eat wild vegetables, throughout the country, the medical called it "septicaemia", Ningxia people called it "bitter bitter vegetables", Shaanxi people called it " bitter hemp", Li Li, "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp", "bitter hemp". Bitter hemp vegetable", Li Shizhen called it "Tian Xiangzhao". Bitter cabbage, bitter with astringent, astringent with sweet, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrients, containing a variety of vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, etc., which is needed by the human body, has the function of clearing away heat, cooling the blood and detoxification. It is mostly used in medicine to treat heat evidence, and the ancients used it to sober up.