Common sense of twenty-four solar terms

Also known as "playing spring" and "biting spring", it is also called "reporting spring". This festival includes activities to celebrate and welcome spring, "shooting cows" in spring and the custom of eating spring cakes, spring vegetables and biting radishes.

2. Stunned

On this day, people have the custom of "beating villains" to drive away bad luck. Sting symbolizes the beginning of February in the lunar calendar. It will awaken all hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants, and reptiles and ants at home will also get up and look for food everywhere.

Therefore, in ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of those unhappy people slapping their opponents and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains".

3. Qingming

On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, in addition to traditional customs such as sweeping graves to worship ancestors, walking in the spring and planting trees and grass, it is said to commemorate a man named "Jiezitui".

Jie Zitui helped Jin Xiangong's son Zhong Er when he was in exile. Later, Zhong Er wanted to repay him, but meson didn't. He carried his mother up the hill. Zhong Er ordered Yamakaji to approach, and the mother and son died on the mountain. Jin Wengong looked at the body of meson push, very sorry, and buried the body. The next year, when I was worshipping, I saw that the burned old willow was actually resurrected. After the sacrifice, Jin Wengong named the resurrected old willow "Qingming Willow" and named this day "Tomb-Sweeping Day".

4. xiaoman

On the day of Xiaoman, there is a custom of "grabbing water" and "offering sacrifices to the car god". It is an ancient custom in rural areas to offer sacrifices to car gods. It is said that "Car God" is a white dragon. In front of the water, farmers put fish, incense sticks and other sacrifices on the car seat. What is special is that there is a cup of white water in the sacrifice, which is poured into the field during the sacrifice, which means wishing the water source flourish. These customs show that farmers attach importance to irrigation and drainage.

5. Summer solstice

In ancient times, on the solstice of summer, people offered sacrifices to the gods in order to pray for the disaster to disappear and to be rich in the coming year. In the Qing dynasty, the worship of gods became more popular from summer to the sun, and the Japanese had to eat pasta to show their respect for the gods. It can be seen that on the solstice of summer, northerners eat noodles and Wuxi people eat wonton, all of which are pious sacrifices to God.

6. beginning of autumn

In early autumn, especially the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, the custom of "touching autumn" is popular in Zhulinguan area of Shangluo. That night, the childless woman after marriage, accompanied by her sister-in-law or other female companions, secretly groped for melons and beans in the fields under the fruit stand and bean shed, hence the name "Touching Autumn".

According to the traditional custom, the owner of the garden can't blame him for picking all the fruits and beans that night. No matter how late aunt comes home, parents are not allowed to criticize her. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, before the moon came out, the children got into the nearby autumn fields as usual and touched something to go home. If you touch onions, parents think that children grow up smart; If you touch the melon and fruit, parents think that the child will eat and drink in the future and everything will be fine.