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What do you eat in rain and solar terms?

Foods eaten in rainy season include canned meat, jujube porridge, poria tea, honey, spinach, spring buds, bamboo shoots, leeks, popcorn and bean sprouts.

On rainy days, the married daughter will go back to her mother's house and give her a can of meat. This pot of meat is simmered on a small fire, and the meat is crisp and rotten. There are also foods such as sugar cane, red dates, longan and medlar. The stew is sweet and nourishing, including the daughter's filial piety to the elderly. Canned meat is a pot of trotters stewed in casserole, with soybeans, kelp, jujube and so on. Then seal the spout with red paper and red rope.

Another custom of Hakkas in rainy season is to occupy beige. The so-called occupation of beige is to predict the quality of rice by frying waxy Gu Mi. Sufficient color means high yield, and insufficient color means low yield.

The meaning of rain solar terms

Rain is the second of the 24 solar terms. Rain solar term means that it begins to rain, and the rainfall level is mainly light rain or Mao Mao rain. As the saying goes, spring rain is as expensive as oil, and suitable precipitation is very important for the growth of crops. It is the reflection of farming culture on festivals. Entering the rain solar term, there is no breath of spring in the northern part of China, but most places in the south are full of spring and a scene of early spring.

The temperature is low in early spring, so the watering of greenhouse vegetables depends on the weather, ground and seedling conditions to prevent the side effects caused by improper watering. To water flexibly according to the weather conditions, it is necessary to master the principle of "properly watering more on sunny days, less or no watering on cloudy days, and never watering on snowy days".