First, "Xiaoman"

The sunshine is warm, the seedlings in the field are green and tender, growing one inch a day and the granary is full after autumn.

Second, "Little Man"

Bitter vegetables and bitter vegetables are long, bitter vegetables and bitter vegetables taste, and a trip to the fields. Silkworm is fat and busy. Have a mulberry. Small full small full grain, small full small Man Cang, the wheat grain is full of pulp.

Xiaoman custom

Xiaoman is the eighth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, which means that from Xiaoman, the seeds of summer crops such as barley and winter wheat in the north have already borne fruit, and are gradually full, but not yet mature, so it is called Xiaoman.

1, Xiaoman solar terms folk custom, blessing silkworm festival

According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god. It is recorded in Jia Qinglu: "Xiaoman first came here, and the silkworm woman cooked cocoons and handled reeling, running around the clock." In ancient times, the solar terms were full, new silk was about to be listed, and the silk market was booming. Silkworm farmers and silk merchants are full of expectations, waiting for the harvest day to come as soon as possible.

2. Xiaoman solar terms and agricultural customs

Xiaoman solar term, summer sowing crops such as wheat in the north are about to mature, and newly sown cotton enters a rapid growth period; It's time to sow and transplant rice in the south, and the summer harvest crops are waiting to be harvested.

3, Xiaoman solar terms customs, bitter vegetables

Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Bitter vegetables, bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrition, contain various vitamins and minerals needed by human body, and have the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.