Grain Rain's seasonal customs?

Different solar terms have different customs and cultures, so do the seasons in Grain Rain. I compiled the following, I hope you like it.

Take Grain Rain for example.

There was a custom of "going to Grain Rain" in ancient times. On this day, young women in Grain Rain visited relatives in the village, and some people came back after walking in the wild.

April 20th every year is the Fisherman's Day in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. This festival originated from Grain Rain Festival. Fishermen in the northern coastal areas of China have celebrated Grain Rain Festival for more than 2,000 years, and it was renamed Fishermen's Day in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty. On this day in Grain Rain, fishermen in Shandong coastal areas prayed for the blessing of Poseidon, smooth sailing and a bumper harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today, wealthy fishermen in Rongcheng held a grand "sea sacrifice" activity in the Grain Rain, toasted Poseidon, and then set sail for fishing.

-taboo scorpions

In the old days, a Japanese Grain Rain painting, Zhang Tianshi, was posted on the door in Linfen, Shanxi, named "Forbidden Scorpion". Shaanxi Fengxiang Scorpion Curse is woodcut, which shows that there is a great demand. It was printed with the words: "In Grain Rain, in mid-March, scorpions showed off their bravado. God chicken bites, poisonous insects turn into water ... "In the center of the picture, the rooster holds the insect with a big scorpion under his paw. This painting is printed with a spell. The saying that the rooster cures the scorpion has been circulating among the people for a long time. Back to the fifty-fifth ghost story novel of Journey to the West, the Monkey King Pig Bajie is no match for Scorpion Essence, and Guanyin knows that he can't get close to him. So we had to ask the Monkey King to invite Pleiadian officials, and it succeeded. Pleiadian officials were originally a rooster with two crowns.

It is described in the book that the Pleiadian star official showed his prototype-the rooster, and the rooster called out to the scorpion essence, and the scorpion essence immediately showed its prototype, which was a scorpion the size of a pipa. The cock crowed again, and the scorpion died delicate on the hillside. Scorpions are also forbidden in Shandong folk customs. Xiajin county annals in the sixth year of Qing Qianlong: "Grain Rain, cinnabar forbids scorpions." The folk custom of "banning scorpions" reflects people's feelings of expelling pests and longing for harvest and peace.

Grain Rain sacrificed Cang Xie.

Grain Rain's custom of offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Wen Zu, and Grain Rain's offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Baishui County, Shaanxi Province, is a folk tradition that has spread for thousands of years since the Han Dynasty.

April 20th every year is the Fisherman's Day in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. This festival originated from Grain Rain Festival. Fishermen in the northern coastal areas of China have celebrated Grain Rain Festival for more than 2,000 years, and it was renamed Fishermen's Day in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty. On this day in Grain Rain, fishermen in Shandong coastal areas prayed for the blessing of Poseidon, smooth sailing and a bumper harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today, wealthy fishermen in Rongcheng held a grand "sea sacrifice" activity in the Grain Rain, toasted Poseidon, and then set sail for fishing.

The people who participate in the fishermen's day activities include those engaged in marine fishing and those engaged in shallow-sea farming, that is, all those engaged in marine fishery production and their families. Rizhao coastal fishermen's festival is a concentrated expression of fishermen's form of offering sacrifices to the sea, expressing their strong feelings and awe of the sea. The activities of Fisherman's Day are very rich, such as opening the light, worshiping the Dragon King, taking a boat and worshiping the sea god. After the activities of Fishermen's Day, the boatmen will get together to have a drink and talk about the plan of harvesting in spring and autumn, as well as the feelings and precautions in production. Then fishermen hold folk festivals, such as diving folk dances.

-To the Dragon King

June 13 is the Fishermen's Day. Fishermen will kill pigs and sheep in Longwang Temple and their fishing boats, steam cakes, prepare various cakes, fruits and other offerings, paste couplets and hang colorful flags. Fishermen got up, carried pigs and sheep dressed in red and flowers and offerings prepared by various families, beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers all the way, and came down to Longwang Temple surrounded by yangko teams, dry boats and onlookers. At eight o'clock in the morning, the sacrificial activities began, firecrackers exploded, gongs and drums roared, colored silks danced, and boatmen placed various offerings in front of the Dragon King Hall, burning incense and kowtowing in turn to worship the Dragon King.

-To the goddess Poseidon

Once upon a time, there was a windy ship with a sea goddess on board and an incense table at the stern for three glasses of wine. When going out to sea, the boatman stood on the ship's surface, rinsed his mouth with clear water from the southeast, and then went into the warehouse to propose a toast to Poseidon, mumbling a prayer for calm. Now, there is no Poseidon on board, and there is a sea temple on one side of the Dragon King Hall. Sacrificial activities are held in Longwang Temple at the same time as the Dragon King's sacrifice.

Diving folk dance

On the fishermen's day, fishermen will dance an aquarium dance with regional characteristics. The dances of the aquarium are mostly fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs and mussels. The costumes are made of bamboo sticks, white silk or cotton paper, and then sketched with colored pens. The performance of Shui dance can be roughly divided into two forms. One is impromptu performance: many men and women choose an aquarium shape to wear on themselves according to their preferences, dance with music such as gongs, drums and suona, and imitate various postures of the aquarium. Their dance steps mostly adopt opera steps or yangko steps, and some are improvisational; The second is a performance with a plot. When performing, there are not only the shapes of aquariums, but also the shapes of characters. Love, ethics and fables are described through the unique connection between people and the aquarium and the specific environment.

Common dances of the Shui people include: Snakes and Clams Fight, Fisherman and Clam Essence, How Big is the Sea, Water and Golden Man Mountain, etc. Because the plot of the aquarium dance adopts anthropomorphic techniques, the plot is tortuous and vivid, close to life, and it is more attractive than the impromptu aquarium dance.