The owner should pay the person who sends the spring water. More essentially, it is a holiday sales activity, but everyone is happy. In some places, there is a yellow paper with a picture of a spring cow on the wall. Yellow stands for land, and spring cattle stands for farming, commonly known as "Spring Cattle Map". During the Spring Festival, people are used to eating carrots, ginger, onions and bread, which is called "biting spring". Rain not only indicates the beginning and increase of rainfall, but also indicates the rise of temperature.
It was cold before it rained. After the rain, the spring breeze warms up, and pathogenic bacteria and viruses are easy to spread with the wind, so infectious diseases tend to break out in spring. We should protect ourselves, pay attention to exercise, strengthen our resistance and prevent diseases. In the rainy solar terms, the humid atmosphere gradually rises, and dew and frost appear in the morning. Therefore, in view of such climate characteristics, diet recuperation should be based on conditioning the spleen and stomach, expelling wind and removing dampness.
Because the climate is cold at this time, it can be supplemented appropriately, such as honey, jujube, yam and tremella, which are all suitable for this solar term. Symbolizing the awakening in early February, all hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants will be awakened with a flat thunder, and reptiles and ants at home will also get up and look for food everywhere. Therefore, in ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of slapping unhappy people and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains".
The season of fright is warm and cold, and the climate is relatively dry, which makes people thirsty and cough due to exogenous factors. Raw pears are cold and sweet, and have the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat. There is a folk custom of eating pears to win by surprise. In addition, patients with cough can also eat lotus seeds, loquat, Siraitia grosvenorii and other foods to relieve pain. Diet should be light, and it is best not to eat greasy food. Irritating foods such as peppers, onions and garlic should also be eaten less.
Vernal equinox, vernal equinox solar terms are generally on March 20 or 2 1 day of Gregorian calendar. On the day of the vernal equinox, day and night are divided into 65,438+02 hours on average, and the vernal equinox is equally distributed in the three months of spring (from beginning of spring to Changchun). Some people say that "the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox are equally divided day and night", so the vernal equinox is also called "day and day". Start sweeping graves to worship ancestors, also known as the Spring Festival. In the old days, there was a custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". Spring vegetable is a kind of wild amaranth, also known as wormwood.
In Jiangnan, the custom of watching cattle and offering sacrifices to birds is very popular. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history of sweeping graves to worship ancestors, which has become a habit. Sweeping the grave is also called sweeping the grave, offering sacrifices and going to the grave. Tomb-Sweeping Day visited the grave because he was in shock, the vernal equinox had passed, the snow and ice melted and the plants sprouted. People think about the graves of ancestors, whether foxes and rabbits have pierced holes, and whether they will collapse because of the rainy season. So on the one hand, they went to the grave to remove weeds, trim branches and add some shovel to the grave; On the other hand, prepare some sacrifices, burn some paper money, hang some notes on the branches and hold a simple ceremony to show the memory of the deceased.
On this day in ancient times, people got together to make friends, help the old and take care of the young, and went to the suburbs for a good spring outing. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, there were many traditional colorful cultural and sports activities, such as tug-of-war, swinging, flying kites, playing polo and fighting cocks. Grain Rain, which means "Rain gives birth to hundreds of valleys". In Jiangnan, the peony flower is commonly known as "Grain Rain Flower". Because it blooms on Grain Rain Festival, there is a proverb "Grain Rain visited the peony in three dynasties".
Wherever there are flowers, literati and poets visit and hold banquets to enjoy them, which is called the "Flower Festival". For fishermen, the custom of offering sacrifices to the sea is popular in Grain Rain Festival. According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. Therefore, no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink. ? In the long summer, in the old society, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice to cook "five-color rice". Later, it evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese bean meat. The dish consisted of amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "long summer rice".
The food corresponding to the subsequent solar terms is also determined according to the weather, the maturity of crops and customs.