Beef, coriander, spinach, chicken liver.
Folk custom: "Beating cattle" means persuading farmers to plow in spring and praying for a bumper harvest. According to legend, bai was a native cow of beginning of spring made by the Duke of Zhou. In addition to playing spring, there is also the custom of biting spring on this day, that is, eating spring cakes, spring dishes, biting radishes and so on.
2. Rain.
Pumpkin, millet, bean sprouts, roses.
Daughters who got married on this day have brought gifts back to their parents' homes to visit their parents. Women who have given birth to children must bring gifts such as cans of meat and chairs to thank their parents for their kindness.
3, stunned.
Peas, black rice, jellyfish, water chestnut.
Folk custom: Sacrificing the white tiger to resolve right and wrong is to worship the white tiger drawn with paper, which is generally yellow and black with a pair of fangs painted at the corner. When offering sacrifices, you need to feed it with the blood of a fat pig, so that it won't hurt people after eating, and then put raw pork on the mouth of a paper tiger to make it full of oil and water, and you can't open your mouth to tell people right and wrong.
4. vernal equinox.
Jujube, yam, tremella.
Folk custom: on this day, there will be activities such as laying eggs, sending pictures of spring cattle, sticking birds' mouths and spring festivals.
5. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Shepherd's purse, oats, chrysanthemum morifolium.
Folk customs: In addition to paying attention to banning fires and sweeping graves, there are also a series of folk sports activities such as jogging, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.
6. Grain Rain.
Smilax glabra, bean sprouts.
Folk custom: It is forbidden to kill farmers with five poisons while entering the fields to kill insects, and at the same time, they put up Grain Rain stickers and prayed to drive away the evil spirits.
7. long summer.
Papaya, duck and hawthorn.
Folk custom: In the folk, people drink cold drinks to cool off in summer. In summer, there is a custom of cooking tender broad beans in Jiangnan water town.
8. Xiaoman.
Cherry, day lily.
Folk custom: there is a saying that "a small man moves three cars" in the south of the Yangtze River. The so-called "three cars" are waterwheels, spinning wheels and oil trucks. Xiaoman is the season of topdressing early rice and transplanting middle rice in the south of the Yangtze River. If the field is not full of water, it will cause the ridge to dry and it will be impossible to transplant rice, so people will use manpower or animal power to drive the waterwheel to irrigate the paddy field.
9. Miscanthus.
Eggplant, wax gourd.
Folk custom: Send flowers to greet the gods at the Flower Festival on the second day of the second lunar month. In southern Anhui, there will be an Miao's agricultural custom activities, which began in the early Ming Dynasty, praying for a bumper harvest of grain and the safety of villagers.
10, summer solstice.
Mung beans, bitter gourd.
Folk custom: Cold noodles are generally eaten in all parts of Shandong Province, commonly known as over the water, and there is a proverb "Winter Solstice Noodles in jiaozi Summer Solstice". In Guangdong, people like to nourish and eat cold food in summer to escape the heat.
1 1, Xiaoshu.
Luffa, Monopterus albus
Folk custom: There is a folk proverb: "The head falls on jiaozi, the face falls on the second side, and the pancake spreads eggs on the third side". From this day on, I entered the dog days. Therefore, it is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi head first. Xuzhou people eat mutton in ambush, which is called eating mutton in ambush. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period.
12, summer heat.
Ginger, lettuce, kiwi fruit.
Folk custom: Guangdong proverb: Eat fairy grass in the summer of June, live like a fairy and never get old. Fairy grass is "bean jelly grass", and people in Putian, Fujian want to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains to "spend the summer". There is a traditional tonic method in central Hunan and northern Hunan, which is to eat young chickens in the summer. Southeast Hunan also has the custom of eating ginger in summer. "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe."
13, beginning of autumn.
Lemon, sesame.
Folk customs: The main customs in beginning of autumn are: beginning of autumn Festival, autumn touching, autumn busy party, autumn fat posting and other folk popular days in beginning of autumn, weighing people by hanging scales, and comparing their weights with those in long summer.
14, summer heat.
Jellyfish, tremella, lily.
Folk custom: Before and after the summer vacation, there will be folk activities to celebrate Zhongyuan, commonly known as "making July and a half" or "Zhongyuan Festival". People often gather around rivers and lakes to set off river lanterns, in order to ferry drowning ghosts and other lonely ghosts in the water. There is a custom of brewing Bailu rice wine in the south. Bailu rice wine is made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".
15, Bailu.
Start harvesting sorghum and early corn.
Walnut, fungus, honey.
16, autumnal equinox.
Tremella, sesame, walnut, glutinous rice
Folk custom: the custom of cooking glutinous rice balls is to eat a kind of wild vegetable called "wild amaranth", which is also called "autumn Artemisia" in some places.
17, cold dew.
Beans, kelp, laver.
Folk custom: Therefore, it includes the Double Ninth Festival, so there are climbing activities. At the same time, we should also eat flower cakes. Because "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, we should call cakes "Chongyang Flower Cake", which means "rising step by step".
18, first frost.
Ginkgo, chestnuts, peanuts.
Folk custom: eat persimmons. As the saying goes: "first frost eats persimmons and will not have a runny nose." Shandong Agricultural Proverbs: Sorghum in summer, Bailu Valley, and radish in first frost.
19, beginning of winter.
Soymilk, eggs, walnuts, almonds.
Folk custom: In ancient society, on this day, the emperor would lead hundreds of civil and military officials to the northern suburbs of Beijing to set up an altar for sacrifice. People will have the custom of eating jiaozi, and there is a proverb that "beginning of winter fills the winter and fills the mouth" is the best metaphor.
20. Xiaoxue.
Beef, Chinese cabbage, chestnuts.
Folk custom: cured meat; Eating Ciba (In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in southern China, and it was originally used by farmers as a sacrifice to the cow god. There is a saying, "In October, Ciba Lulu burned", which means sacrifice.
2 1, heavy snow.
Crucian carp, sea cucumber, walnut.
Folk custom: there is a saying among the people in northern Shandong that "the road is full of doors and only drinks red sticky porridge"; In old Nanjing, there is a saying that "light snow pickled vegetables, heavy snow pickled meat". As soon as the solar term of heavy snow arrives, every household is busy pickling "salty goods".
22, the winter solstice.
Kiwi, sugarcane, grapefruit.
Folk custom: wonton noodles, in the past, there was a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton noodles in summer solstice"; Eat dog meat and mutton; Eat jiaozi. As the saying goes, "On October 1st, when the winter solstice comes, every family eats dumplings." People in the south pay attention to eating red beans and glutinous rice on this day.
23, slight cold.
Chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, jujube, longan.
Folk custom: Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice; Guangdong eats glutinous rice.
24. Great cold.
Chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, jujube, longan.
Delicious "Laba porridge"