Folklore activities during the rainy season

The folk activities of the rainy season include: returning to the mother's house, hitting the bai mail, occupying the rice color, pulling the bao bao, receiving longevity, and delivering the rain water.

1, back to the mother's house

In China's western Sichuan area, every year in the rainy season, the daughters of the family will bring gifts home to visit their parents, women who already have children, back to the mother's home must bring gifts such as cans of meat or chairs, to thank their parents for their parenting. Women who have never had children also have their mothers sew a pair of red pants for them, which is said to help them get pregnant.

2. Bumping and worshiping the mail

The Rain Festival is a very imaginative and humane festival in western Sichuan folklore. On this day, some women wait by the side of the road with their children and let their children kowtow to the first person who passes in front of them and give each other godchildren or god sons, which is called "bumping worship mail".

3, accounted for the rice color

Accounted for the rice color, that is, by frying glutinous rice flowers, to divine how much of the year's rice harvest. Exploded out of the more glutinous rice, it means that this year's harvest the better, on the contrary, if burst out of the glutinous rice less, it means that this year's harvest is not good, the price of rice is likely to rise.

4, pull Paul Paul

Paul Paul is a Sichuan dialect, meaning that in order to bless the children grow up, looking for a good life as godparents. People in the old society were more superstitious, in order for their children to grow up healthily, so they would find a godfather for their children, but with the development of society, this custom has slowly disappeared.

5, receive life

Rain festival, people will receive life, rain festival, son-in-law shall not be idle, but also to go to the in-laws to send the festival. Send the festival gifts are usually two rattan chairs, wrapped around the top 4 meters long red tape, which is known as receiving life, which means that I wish my father-in-law and mother-in-law a long life. Another typical gift for the festival is canned male meat, which is given to the in-laws.

6. Sending Rainwater

On the rainwater festival of the Hakka in Chengdu, Sichuan, there is a folk custom that daughters send their parents or son-in-laws to their parents-in-law. The son-in-law's gift to the festival is usually a two-foot-long red cotton belt, called the life, praying for the parents-in-law to live a long life. Daughters are stewed pig's feet and chicken soup, and then sealed with red paper and red rope, the son-in-law to the parents-in-law to send.