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The custom of rain and solar terms

The custom of rain and solar terms: go back to your mother's house, protect your family, occupy beige, and accept your life.

1, go back to your mother's house

The married daughter took her husband to send festivals to her parents-in-law. Holiday gifts are usually two rattan chairs with red ribbons one foot and two feet long. This is called "longevity", which means wishing parents a long life.

2. Spicy baby

In the past, people had a habit of divining their children from God to see what their children's fate was and whether they needed to find a michel platini. The purpose of looking for michel platini is to make a son or daughter grow up smoothly and healthily. Rain festival pulls michel platini, which means "rain and dew moisten and grow easily".

3, rice color accounting

The color of rice is to predict the rice harvest in that year by frying glutinous rice flowers. The quality of "color" depends on the number of glutinous rice flowers that bloom. The more glutinous rice that bursts with glistening, the better the harvest; Moreover, the less rice blooms, it means that the harvest is not good and the rice price will be expensive.

Step 4 send rain water

At the Dongshan Hakka Rain Festival in Chengdu, Sichuan, a daughter sent festivals to her parents, and her son-in-law sent festivals to her parents-in-law. The gift given by the son-in-law on holidays is usually a one-foot-two-foot-long red cotton belt, which is called "Shoushou" to pray for the parents-in-law to get along for a hundred years.

The origin of rain solar terms

As the saying goes: Spring rain is as expensive as oil. Proper precipitation in spring plays an important role in the healthy growth of crops. The rain solar term means the beginning of rain, but the rain in early spring is mainly Mao Mao rain or light rain. The ice on the water surface of this solar term began to melt, and it was time for otters to fish again.

Otters have a habit of fishing. It likes to put the fish on the shore and arrange them in turn, which is a bit like a sacrifice, so there is a saying that the water otter sacrifices the fish. After the rain, geese began to fly from the south to the north. As the temperature rises, the vegetation on the ground begins to sprout, the spring breeze warms up and everything recovers.