Beef, cilantro, spinach, chicken liver.

Folk customs: playing spring is "playing cattle", that is to say, to persuade farmers to plow in the spring and pray for a good harvest. Legend has it that bai is the beginning of the Duke of Zhou's system of spring earth cow. In addition to playing spring, this day there is the custom of biting spring, that is, eat spring cake, spring plate, bite radish.

2, rain.

Pumpkin, millet, bean seedlings, roses.

Daughters who got married on this day flocked back to their parents' homes to visit them with gifts. Women who have given birth to children must bring gifts such as canned meat and chairs to thank their parents for raising them.

3, hibernation.

Peas, black rice, jellyfish, water chestnuts.

Folk Customs: Sacrifice White Tiger is to resolve the right and wrong is to worship the white tiger painted with paper, paper tigers are generally yellow with black markings, the corner of the mouth painted with a pair of fangs. Worship, need to feed the blood of a fat pig, so that it is full of no longer hurt people, followed by raw pork smeared in the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it is full of oil and water, can not open their mouths to say that people are right and wrong.

4. Spring Equinox.

Red dates, Chinese yam, silver ear.

Folk customs: on this day folk will have erected eggs, send spring bull figure, sticky bird beak, spring festival and other activities.

5, Qingming Festival

Shepherd's purse, oats, Chrysanthemum.

Folk customs: folk, in addition to the fire ban, tomb sweeping, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, willow and so on.

6, Valley Rain.

Tu Fu Ling, bean sprouts.

Folk custom: banning the killing of the five poisons farmers into the field to exterminate insects while posting Guyu stickers, prayers to drive away bad luck and good fortune.

7, Lixia.

Papaya, duck, hawthorn.

Folk customs: in folklore, on the day of summer, people drink cold drinks to cool down. On the first day of summer, there is a custom of cooking young fava beans in the water towns of Jiangnan.

8, small full.

Cherry, yellow cauliflower.

Folk customs: Jiangnan belt has a "small full move three cars" said. The so-called "three cars" that is, waterwheel, spinning wheel, oil car. Small full is the Jiangnan early rice fertilizer, rice transplanting season, such as if the field is not full of water, it will cause the field can be cracked, can not transplanting, so people will be manpower or animal power to drive the waterwheel to irrigate the paddy fields.

9, mango.

Eggplant, winter melon.

Folk Customs: Sending the God of Flowers to welcome the God of Flowers at the Flower Dynasty Festival on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. Southern Anhui region will have the agricultural custom of An Miao activities, began in the early Ming Dynasty, praying for a good harvest, villagers peace.

10, summer solstice.

Green beans, bitter melon.

Folk customs: Shandong generally eat cold noodles, commonly known as water noodles, "winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles" proverb. Guangdong area, people prefer to nourish cool food in the summer to avoid heat.

11, small summer.

Silkmelon, eel.

Folk customs: there is a folk proverb: "the first ambush dumplings, two ambush noodles, three ambush pancakes spread eggs". From this day onwards into the ambush days. Therefore, the first ambush to eat dumplings is a traditional custom. Xuzhou people eat mutton in the ambush, known as eating sheep this custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period.

12, big summer.

Ginger, lettuce, kiwi.

Folk customs: Guangdong proverb: June summer to eat grass, live like a god will not age. Xiancao is "cool powder grass", Fujian Putian people want to eat lychee, mutton and rice wine to "over the summer". Xiangzhong, Xiangbei has a traditional method of tonic, is to eat chicken in the summer. Southeast Hunan also has a custom of eating ginger in the summer, "winter eat radish and summer eat ginger, do not need a doctor to prescribe medicine".

13, Autumn.

Lemon, sesame seeds.

Folk customs: the main customs of the Autumn Festival: Autumn Festival, touching the autumn, autumn busy will be, sticking autumn fat and other folk popular in the Autumn Festival on this day to hanging scales to weigh people, the weight with the summer when the comparison.

14, the summer heat.

Jellyfish, silver ear, lily.

Folk Customs: Around the time of the summer heat, there will be folk activities to celebrate the middle of the year, commonly known as "for the half of the seventh month," or "the middle of the year festival". Often people will gather in the river and lake put river lamps, in order to the water in the water ghosts and other lonely ghosts. In the south, there is a custom of brewing their own white dew rice wine, which is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, and is slightly sweet, hence the name "white dew rice wine".

15, white dew.

The harvest of sorghum and early corn begins.

Walnuts, fungus and honey.

16, Autumn Equinox.

Silver fungus, sesame, walnuts, glutinous rice

Folk customs: cooking dumplings to eat the custom to eat a wild vegetable called "wild amaranth", also known as "autumn artemisia" in some places.

17, cold dew.

Beans, kelp, seaweed.

Folk Customs: This time of year includes the Chongyang Festival, so there are activities to climb high. At the same time, but also to eat flower cake, because the "high" and "cake" resonance, so the festival pastry called "Chongyang flower cake", meaning "step by step". "

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18, frost.

White fruit, chestnuts, peanuts.

Folk custom: eating persimmons. As the saying goes: "Frost eating persimmons, will not flow nose (snot)." Shandong farmers proverb: summer sorghum, white dew grain, frost to the pulling of carrots.

19, winter.

Soy milk, eggs, walnuts, almonds.

Folk customs: In ancient society, on this day, the emperor would lead civil and military officials to the northern suburbs of the capital set up an altar to worship. Folk will have the custom of eating dumplings, there is a proverb "winter winter, fill the mouth empty" is the best analogy.

20, snow.

Beef, cabbage, chestnuts.

Folk customs: cured meat; eat patties (in ancient times, patties are the southern region of the traditional holiday offerings, the earliest farmers used to sacrifice cattle god offerings.) There is a saying that "in October, the mochi is burnt", which refers to the festival.

21, snow.

Carp, sea cucumber and walnuts.

Folk customs: the northern Lu folk "threshing floor on top of the door, light drink red sticky porridge" said; and the old Nanjing has a saying called "small snow pickles, snow pickled meat", the snow festival arrived, families busy pickling! "The first time I've seen this, I've seen it, and I've seen it, and I've seen it.

22, winter solstice.

Kiwi, sugar cane, pomelo.

Folk customs: wonton noodles, the old Beijing in the past, "winter solstice wonton summer solstice noodles"; eating dog meat, mutton; eating dumplings. Proverb: "October 1, the winter solstice to, families eat dumplings." In the south on this day people talk about eating red beans and glutinous rice.

23, small cold.

Chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, jujubes, cinnamon.

Folk customs: Nanjing preaching vegetables and rice; Guangdong eat glutinous rice.

24, Dahan.

Chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, jujubes, cinnamon.

The delicious "Laba congee".