(The first day of the sixth lunar month) happens to be the traditional festival - "Half Year". Based on experience in previous years, this day should be very lively. Every household spends "half a year" making dumplings, eating steamed buns, and visiting relatives and friends. After entering the ambush, it coincides with the first day of the sixth lunar month.

In the old days, the wheat harvest had been completed, and farmers couldn’t wait to try something new or visit relatives. Therefore, people set up offering tables in houses, courtyards, and wheat fields, put steamed jujube dumplings and five kinds of fruits such as peaches and plums, fill buckets with newly harvested wheat, and color the buckets with the word "福" on them. Burn incense and firecrackers to pray for good weather in autumn.

Afterwards, people happily ate dumplings, and some also ate "chowder" made of meat, vegetables, vermicelli and kelp. On the Half-year Festival, most people cook, drink, and eat dumplings for dinner. The situation is similar to the family reunion dinner during the Spring Festival, but the richness of the stir-fry is inferior to that of the Spring Festival, but better than usual.

Dumplings, dumplings have long been the favorite food of people in vast areas of the north. There is a popular saying among the people, "It's not as delicious as dumplings, and it's not as comfortable as lying down", which shows the people's love for dumplings. After half a year of hard work, half a year has passed again. No matter what the reason is, treat yourself to some dumplings! Come and enjoy this bowl of dumplings!

Extended information:

The first day of the sixth lunar month is also called "Little Year" or "Half Year". This festival is a traditional festival in the Central Plains, especially in Shandong and Henan. Province. "Little New Year" is related to the "Big New Year", that is, the Spring Festival.

The meaning of "half a year" means that according to the calculation of the lunar calendar, the first day of June is exactly half of the year, and something must be celebrated at this time. In most areas of Shandong and Henan, especially in rural areas, people place tributes on the offering table, fire cannons, and burn incense as a souvenir.

In addition to the special reasons of the time, there is another reason to celebrate the "Little New Year", which is to celebrate the wheat harvest, because in the "Mangzhong" solar term that has just passed, every household has just finished harvesting. Wheat, people are coming to celebrate this year of abundance.

The main crop in the Central Plains is wheat, and it is the time to harvest wheat around the annual "Manzhong". In the ancient Central Plains, people made a living by cultivating and harvesting wheat, so this celebration The festival of wheat abundance is very important.

In many places, this festival is also called the "New Wheat Festival". One is to celebrate the abundance, and the other is to pray for good weather in the days to come.