Xiaoman solar terms folk custom
1, sacrifice to the car god
Offering sacrifices to car gods is an ancient Xiaoman custom in some rural areas. In related legends, "Car God" is a white dragon. In Xiaoman season, people put fish, incense sticks and other items on the waterwheel to worship. The most interesting thing is that there will be a glass of white water in the sacrifice, which is poured into the field during worship, which means blessing the water source to flourish.
2. Sacrifice silkworms
According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, so there is a silkworm praying festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during Xiaoman solar term. China's farming culture is typical of "male ploughing and female weaving", and the raw material of female weaving is mainly cotton in the north and silk in the south. Silk needs to be spun from cocoons, so sericulture is extremely prosperous in rural areas in southern China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Silkworms are pampered "pets" and are difficult to feed. Temperature, humidity, cold, ripe, dry and wet mulberry leaves all affect the survival of silkworms. Because silkworms are difficult to raise, silkworms were regarded as "heavenly things" in ancient times. In order to pray for the forgiveness of "natural things" and a good harvest in sericulture, people hold a silkworm praying festival in April when silkworms are released.
There is no fixed date for praying for silkworms, and families will hold the "silkworm release" on the same day, but the difference is not more than two or three days. Many places in the south have built "Silkworm Mother Temple" and "Silkworm Temple". Silkworm farmers all bow down to "Silkworm Mother" and "Silkworm God" during the Silkworm Prayer Festival, offering wine, fruit and rich dishes. In particular, it is necessary to make a cocoon of flour, tie a straw hill with straw, and put a "cocoon of flour" on it to symbolize the harvest of silkworm cocoons.
The patriarch gathered all the households, set the date and arranged the preparations. At dawn in Xiaoman, he lit torches to eat wheat cakes, wheat cakes and wheat balls. When the patriarch took drums and gongs as the number, everyone took the hammer as the signal, set foot on the pre-installed waterwheel, and dozens of vehicles stepped together to pump the river into the fields until the river was dry.
3, small full moving three cars
Xiaoman Festival is in early summer, and cocoons are formed, just waiting for reeling. In the south of the Yangtze River, from the day when Xiaoman was full, silkworm women cooked cocoons and started reeling with silk reeling carts, and took rapeseed to the oil garage to grind oil. In the drought, they used water carts to scoop water into the fields, which was called "Xiaoman moved three carts" by the people.
4. Look at the yellow tip of wheat
In Guanzhong area, every year when the wheat is about to mature, the married daughter will visit her parents' home to greet the preparations for the summer harvest. This custom is called "Look at the yellow tops of wheat", which is very poetic. Son-in-law and daughter, like festivals, bring gifts such as steamed buns, yellow apricots and cucumbers to express their condolences to their parents. As the agricultural proverb goes, "The wheat tip is yellow, and the woman looks after her mother. If she removes the shackles, her mother looks after her enemies." Before the summer rush, my daughter went to ask about her parents' preparations for the wheat harvest, and after the rush, my mother visited her daughter again and cared about her daughter's work. And Xiaoman cried, much like the name of a country girl.
5, summer busy meeting
In some places, summer busy parties are also held, the main purpose of which is to exchange and buy production tools, buy and sell livestock, buy and sell food, etc. The duration is usually 3-5 days, and then big plays will be sung to entertain.
Health food with small solar terms
1, wax gourd
It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving vexation, and is suitable for diseases such as summer heat, polydipsia, edema, dysuria, thirst-quenching, drinking, edema and dyspnea.
2. Onions
It has the effects of regulating stomach qi, eliminating dampness, eliminating phlegm, detoxicating and killing insects, and is suitable for chest distress, excessive cough and phlegm, and dysuria.
3. Purslane
It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, dispersing blood and relieving swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice, gingivitis and other diseases.
4, crucian carp
It has the effects of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, weakness, thirst-quenching, edema, and dysuria.
5. Abalone
It has the effects of nourishing blood, softening liver, nourishing yin, clearing away heat, benefiting eyesight, promoting diuresis, and promoting arthralgia, and is suitable for diseases such as internal heat due to yin deficiency, amenorrhea due to blood depletion, hypogalactia, hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency, cataract due to night blindness, and stranguria and jaundice caused by damp heat.
6. Corn
It has the effects of regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for urinary calculi or edema of chronic nephritis, hypertension, anorexia, etc.
7. Sorghum
It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, eliminating dampness and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for children's dyspepsia, damp-heat vomiting and diarrhea, diarrhea and other diseases.
8. Coix seed
It is beneficial to water infiltration, spleen strengthening and diarrhea stopping, and is suitable for short and red urine, edematous beriberi, rheumatalgia, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, flat wart and other diseases.
9, lentils
It has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating middle warmer, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for vomiting due to summer heat dampness, vomiting due to spleen deficiency, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc.
10, Oenanthe javanica
It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for diseases such as stranguria, bleeding and leukorrhagia.
Xiaoman health recipe
1, white crucian carp rolling poached eggs
Ingredients: white crucian carp, eggs.
Ingredients: ginger and pepper.
Practice: Wash the white crucian carp, fry it until it is slightly yellow, splash a little water and scoop it up. Fry the eggs into poached eggs and scoop them up. Saute ginger slices in oil wok, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil with strong fire, roll white crucian carp for a while, add poached eggs, and add appropriate amount of salt and pepper after boiling.
Efficacy: eliminating dampness and appetizing.
2, melon grass carp pot
Raw materials: grass carp and wax gourd.
Ingredients: salt, monosodium glutamate and vegetable oil.
Practice: Peel the wax gourd, wash and cut into triangular pieces, cut the grass carp clean, and leave the tail for washing. Fry grass carp in oil until golden brown, take a casserole, put some water in it, and put the fish and wax gourd together in the casserole. After the fire is boiled, simmer for about 2 hours. The soup is white. Add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste.
Efficacy: calming the liver, expelling wind, promoting diuresis and removing heat.
3, celery mixed with tofu
Ingredients: celery, tofu.
Ingredients: salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.
Practice: cut celery into small pieces, cut tofu into small cubes, blanch them with boiling water, remove them and cool them with cold boiling water, and control the water for later use. Stir celery and tofu, add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil and stir well.
Efficacy: calming the liver and clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying.
4. Fried duck with green pepper
Ingredients: duck breast, green pepper, eggs.
Ingredients: yellow rice wine, salt, dried starch, fresh soup, monosodium glutamate, water starch and vegetable oil.
Practice: Cut the duck breast into thin slices, wash it with clear water and drain it. Mix the eggs with dry starch and salt, and mix well with duck slices for sizing. Seeds and pedicels of green pepper are removed, washed and sliced. When the pot is hot, add oil and heat it to 40%. Put the duck slices in the pot and spread them with a spoon. Stir-fry until it is 80% ripe, add green pepper, and pour the duck slices into a colander to pour oil when they are cooked. Leave a little oil in the pot, add salt, wine and fresh soup to boil, then pour the sliced duck and green pepper, thicken with water starch, stir-fry for a few times and serve.
Efficacy: warming the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
5. Water chestnut and lotus root soup
Raw materials: water chestnut, lotus root.
Ingredients: appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: Wash and peel water chestnut, wash lotus root and cut into small pieces. Add a proper amount of water to the casserole, put the water chestnut and lotus root into the casserole, simmer for 20 minutes, add rock sugar, stew for 10 minutes, and serve.
Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and appetizing.