The solar term of awn species is characterized by abundant rainfall and significant temperature rise. It represents the official start of the midsummer season. Summer grain should be harvested, sown in the field and managed in spring, which is the busiest solar term in a year. It is also a festival suitable for planting and sowing cereal crops such as late rice, and it is a reflection of ancient farming culture on the festival.

The origin of awn seeds

Miscanthus means that the crops are ripe. Mango is the ninth of the 24 solar terms. On June 5th, every year, when the sun reaches 75 degrees, it is an awn. "Twenty-four solar terms": "The May Festival means that there is a kind of awn that can grow grains". It means that the seeds of crops with awns, such as barley and wheat, are ripe and it is very urgent to grab the harvest. Summer sowing crops such as late rice, millet and millet are also the busiest season for sowing, so they are called "awn seeds". Spring competes for the sun and summer competes for time. "Fighting for time" refers to the busy harvest of crops at this time. It is often said that "three summers" is a busy farming season, that is, summer management is busy with summer harvest, summer sowing and spring sowing crops. The arrival of "Mangzi" indicates that farmers have started their busy field life. So "awn seed" is also called "busy seed", which means "busy seed", and it is the busiest time for farmers to sow and go to the fields.

"awn" means that crops with awns such as wheat are mature, that is to say, the seeds of crops with awns such as barley and wheat are mature, and it is very urgent to grab the harvest. "There is a kind of awn in Mayday, and grains can be planted." It means that the seeds of crops with awns, such as barley and wheat, are ripe and it is very urgent to grab the harvest. Summer sowing crops such as late rice, millet and millet are also the busiest season for sowing, so they are also called "awn seeds".

Why is Mangzhong so "busy"

There is an agricultural proverb when planting awns: "Wheat with awns can be harvested quickly, and rice with awns can be planted." The vigorous growth of awn crops is not only the harvest period of summer wheat in the north, but also the sowing period of rice transplanted in the south, which is called "double grab" in agriculture to ensure the return of grain. The changeable climate is another reason for the busy farming. After the awning, the northern plain of Huanghuai began to enter the rainy season. At this time, if there is strong wind, hail or rainy weather that lasts for many days, the hard work of farmers for one year will be wiped out, and it is urgent.

It can be said that awn seed is the last suitable sowing season this year. If there is no transplanting and sowing, we may have to wait for the next year. Therefore, there are busy things in the busy.

The custom of mango solar terms

1, Anmiao

Anmiao is a kind of farming folk activity in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice. Every household steamed bread with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

2, dried shrimp skin

At this time, fishermen along the coast are busy drying shrimps. Because it is the season of awning, shrimp is in the spawning period, and its physique is fat, its meat quality is solid and its nutritional value is good. People call the shrimp skin of mango seed stage mango seed skin. There are two kinds of shrimp skin: raw shrimp skin and cooked shrimp skin. Sun-dried shrimp skin refers to the lightly sun-dried finished product, which has high freshness and is not easy to regain moisture and mildew; Boiled shrimp skin with salt, drained and dried, although it maintains the fresh flavor, its taste is slightly inferior to that of raw shrimp skin.

Step 3 fight in mud

Young Dong men and women in southern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting awns. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, playing with each other while planting rice seedlings and throwing mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

Step 4 marry a tree

When the solar term comes, fruit farmers will graft different fruit trees to make the fruits complement each other in shape and quality. Some simply cross the fruit tree with a knife, so that it can absorb the outside air and increase the fruit yield.

5. Send flowers to God

On February 2 nd, the flower god welcomes the flower festival. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. Some hang colorful ribbons on the branches of flowers, and some stick the fallen petals on the trees again, meaning that they will never fade.

6. Ploughing festival

There is a "Plowing Festival" in Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, which is held on the day of Mango Festival in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar. There is a legend in Yunhe Meiyuan: cattle are the grass managers in the sky. Sympathizing with human famine, they secretly planted grass seeds, and as a result, weeds grew wildly and saved livestock, and farmland was flooded with weeds, so farmers could not cultivate. In order to punish cattle, God ordered them to plow the earth until today. Farming is the seasonal embodiment that farmers in mountainous areas around Yunhe Meiyuan begin to plow in spring. In the past, the ploughing festival was called "Ox King Festival".

7. hang wormwood

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, mosquitoes breed, and diseases are easy to spread, so May is called "the month of all poisons". In ancient times, wormwood was hung on the lintel to repel mosquitoes.