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The Origin of Mangzi and the Folk Customs of Solar Terms

Miscanthus is a symbol of maturity of wheat and other crops with awns, and it is also a solar term reflecting agricultural phenology. Awn means the maturity of crops with awns, such as wheat. Do you know the origin of Miscanthus and the folklore of solar terms? Let's take a look at the origin of mango and the folk customs of solar terms. Welcome to check!

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The origin of awn seeds

Solar terms custom of awn species

Weather characteristics of Miscanthus plants

The origin of awn seeds

Mango is the ninth of the 24 solar terms, and the mango solar term is on June 6 (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month). When planting awns, the sun reaches 75 degrees of the yellow meridian.

The literal meaning of awn seed is "the wheat with awn is harvested quickly, and the rice with awn can be planted". "Moon Order" seventy-two waiting for Ji Jie: "May Festival, that can be planted with awned food." It means that the seeds of crops with awns such as barley and wheat are ripe, and it is very urgent to grab the harvest. Summer sowing crops such as late rice, millet and millet are also the busiest season for sowing, so they are also called "awn seeds".

Therefore, "awn seed", also known as "busy planting" and "busy planting", is the busiest time for farmers to sow and go to the fields.

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Solar terms custom of awn species

Dong people in Guizhou fight mud battles.

Young Dong men and women in southeastern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting hemp. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, playing with each other while planting rice seedlings and throwing mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

Boiled plums

In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plum Boils Wine as a Hero" in the Three Kingdoms. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums. Therefore, the ancients invented various methods of cooking plums. Cooking on the same day is delicious and elegant.

Spend the Dragon Boat Festival with you.

The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It happens every two years during the awning, and it is one of the four major folk festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang, Noon, Midday, Zhumen and Wudu Day. The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, eating mung bean cake, cooking plums and racing dragon boats. So this coincidence mango has the color of Dragon Boat Festival. The above-mentioned custom of cooking plums is also the custom of Dragon Boat Festival and mango seeds.

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On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower festival welcomes the flower god. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. This custom no longer exists today, but we can get a glimpse from the twenty-seventh story of A Dream of Red Mansions by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin: "Those girls in the Grand View Garden are all tied up with colored threads, or woven into sedan chairs and horses with petals and willow branches, or woven into thousands of buildings with brocade and tulle. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. Embroidered ribbons are flying and flowers are in full bloom in the garden. What's more, these people are all peaches and apricots, and the shame of the orioles. " It can be seen that the mango festival of a large family is a lively scene for the flower god to bid farewell.

Anmiao ceremony

This is a farming folk activity in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice. Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

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Weather characteristics of Miscanthus plants

Huangmeitian in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River began in the late period of mango solar terms. Farmers are very concerned about the rain in mango solar terms, so there are many meteorological proverbs handed down. As follows:

The solstice in summer is a water festival. If there is no rain, it is dry. (Guangdong)

◇ Miscanthus sowed the summer solstice and flooded the fields. (Guangdong)

When it rains, the water will rise during the Dragon Boat Festival. (to)

It always rains on the solstice in summer, and typhoons come late; At least it rains in summer and typhoons come early. (Fujian)

Mango grows on the solstice in summer, and it needs someone to lead it when walking. (Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou) (rainy days, easy to slip on the road)

Generally speaking, in the late awning period, there will be continuous rainfall from the Yangtze River basin in China to the southern part of Japan, with a long rainfall period, which is called Meiyu because the plums are yellow and ripe. The ancient poems describing plum rains belong to thousands of families, and Zhao Shixiu's Guest is the most famous one: "It rains at home in Huangmei season, and frogs are everywhere in the grass pond. If you don't come at midnight, knock off the chess pieces and die. "

According to the statistics of the book Climate in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River, it is generally June 16 in Wuhan, June 15 in Anqing, Anhui, and June 17 in Nanjing and Shanghai. In most areas of Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, plum rains usually arrive a few days earlier than the Yangtze River basin. However, years with few precipitation days have also appeared. Meteorology calls this period without continuous precipitation empty plum. Meiyu is followed by summer drought in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. If plum blossoms are available, there will be a serious summer drought in this area.

During the awning period, although the flood season in South China is in the late stage, there will still be heavy rain. Under normal circumstances, Hunan, central Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang usually enter the Meiyu period first. Like South China, the main flood season in this area starts from time to time, and the mountainous areas should be alert to secondary disasters such as flash floods and mudslides caused by local heavy rains. There are also urban drainage and water accumulation, farmland drainage and disaster relief, which will be listed as emergency plans.

Historically, 1954, 199 1 and 1998, all the heavy rains during the meiyu period caused the catastrophic floods in the whole basin. According to the flood disaster statistics released by the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters in May this year, there were 198 people killed and the loss was 255 billion yuan. Of course, the formation of this situation must be caused by the strong cold and warm air and the close balance.

In addition, the southwest region began to enter the rainy season of the year in June. At this time, the hail weather in the southwest and western plateau areas began to increase.

During this period, except for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the northernmost part of Heilongjiang, people in most areas can generally feel the summer heat. Nenjiang River is located in the north of Heilongjiang Province. During the 30 years from 197 1 to 2000, the hottest day (37. 1℃) appeared in the awning period.

In June, whether in the south or the north, high temperature weather above 35℃ may occur, and high temperature weather above 40℃ may also occur in Huanghuai area and the eastern part of northwest China, but it is generally not a continuous high temperature.

In China's southern provinces of Taiwan Province, Hainan, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, the average temperature in June is around 28℃. If the air humidity is high before the thunderstorm, it is really stuffy and hot. Sometimes it is necessary to issue a high temperature forecast to the public to remind people to prevent heatstroke, air conditioning disease and acute gastroenteritis.

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Articles on the origin of awn species and folk customs of solar terms;

★ Introduction to the origin and customs of mango seeds

★ The origin of awn species and the folk custom of solar terms

★ The origin and custom of the solar terms of awn species

★ Historical allusions and folk customs in the wild.

★ The origin and custom of the solar terms of awn species

★ The origin and customs of mango seeds

★ The Origin and Folklore of Mango Seeds in 2022

★ The origin and customs of mango seeds

★ Four traditional customs of the solar terms of mango.

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