"Monthly 72 wait Jiejie" said:? May Festival, said the seed of the grain can be planted. That is, barley, wheat, etc. has matured, the harvest is very urgent; late grain, millet, thick and other crops is also the busiest season of sowing. Proverbs say? Mang seed mango, busy seed? , is the importance of the mango and people's busy. The folk customs of mango mainly have boiled plum, send flower God, An Miao, playing mud, etc., in addition to some dietary practices.
Before and after the mango seed, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is often rainy, humid air, hot and stuffy weather, so all kinds of things are easy to mold, people call this period? Moldy rain? Season. This time and it is the yellow plum ripe time, people in order to auspicious, put? Moldy rain? Also known as? Plum rain?
Because the yellow plum is very sour and astringent, directly eat the taste is not good, often need to be processed and then eat, and the most common practice is to cook the yellow plum to eat, so the farmers have the custom of cooking plums.
Why send the flower god? The twelfth day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the Flower Dynasty Festival, a hundred flowers open, when people want to welcome the God of Flowers. And by May, most of the flowers have withered and fallen. According to the ancient saying, after the Mango Festival, the flowers will fall and the God of Flowers will step down, and the world will make a grand farewell for her to show their gratitude. Sending flowers to the God of Flowers not only conveys people's gratitude to the God of Flowers, but also expresses their good wishes to meet again in the coming year. About the Mangwai send flower god, "red chamber Dream" has a wonderful description, here is a little bit.
? Where to hand over the mango festival this day, we have to set up a variety of gifts, offering candied flowers God, said the mango a pass, is the summer, the flowers are unloaded, the flower God abdicated, must be U line. However, this custom is more popular in the women's quarters, so the people in the Grand View Garden are up early. The girls, or with flower petals and willow branches woven into a sedan chair and horse, or with the performance of brocade gauze folded into a banner, banner, all tied with colored thread. Every tree and every flower was tied with these things. The garden is full of embroidered ribbons fluttering, flower branches spreading dry is a shield, banner, banner, flag, block, etc. are ancient flags.
Some places also have the custom of An Miao, playing mud. For example, in the southern Anhui area, every mango season, people planted rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in the fall, will be held An Miao ritual activities. Families are using new wheat flour evaporated cake, the surface pinch into the shape of six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then the vegetable juice poured on top of the coloring, as an offering to pray for a bumper harvest, the villagers peace.
Dong young men and women in southeastern Guizhou, before and after the annual mango to be held before and after the mud festival.
On the day of the mango, young men and women in the field collective rice-planting, rice-planting side of the fight, throw each other mud. At the end of the event, we have to check the results of the battle, who has the most mud on his body, who is the most popular person.
Do wheat food
Wheat food, eat up the benefits of a lot. Barley sex salty warm, slightly cold, can quench thirst in addition to heat, beneficial gas regulating the middle, replenish the deficiency of strong blood, color, surplus solid five organs, and can be food to stop the leakage of food, long time eating people rich muscle to increase the white, skin tender. Barley flour is better than wheat flour, no hot and dry gas. Barley porridge sweet and smooth and delicious, grinding noodles to make sauce, the flavor is beautiful. Wheat is sweet and slightly cold, the main tonic heart to stop boredom, can remove heat and stop sweating, facilitate urination, nourish the liver, stop leakage of blood and vomiting blood. Nourishing and strengthening, so that women are easy to conceive. And because wheat is rich in calcium, and calcium is an important substance of the composition of the bone, and therefore is the most conducive to the growth of juvenile body food. Wheat is sown in the fall and harvested at an early age in the summer, and in May and June of the Gregorian calendar, the new wheat is already ripe, and women who have been married can make all kinds of wheat foods and give them to their parents to taste the new ones as a way of showing that they have visited them. Shaanxi Fuping area, will be known as the female to see the mother, there is also a proverb that says: "Wheat on the field, the female to see the mother. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right kind of food, and that you have the right kind of food to give to your parents.
Yellow plum rain
This month, the southeast coastal areas, because the monsoon direction from the northwest to the southeast, cold, warm, dry and wet different two air meets, water vapor and the ground is also cold, so often wet and rainy. At this time just when the plums are ripe, plums turn yellow will fall, so called this time of year for the yellow plum. The rain falls, not clear for days, known as the yellow plum rain. It is written in the book "Bu Ya": "In April and May, in Jiangxiang and Zhejiang, the rain falls in April and May. Jiangxiang two Zhejiang, April and May, the plum to yellow fall, the water wet soil mattress. Pillar base are sweating, steamed into rain, called the plum rain. In the past, some people also wrote poems, saying: "It rains in every house during the yellow plum season. The yellow plum season rain in every house, grass pond everywhere frogs? and "When the plums are ripe, it rains. It rains when the plums are ripe, and when the spicy flowers bloom. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Mangshan Huangmei rain
The climate is different everywhere, the time of the rain is also different. It was recorded in the "Compendium of the Times and Years" that: "The Min people used the time after the beginning of summer as a time for the rain to fall. The "Kui Xin Miscellaneous Knowledge" said that after the mango non day people plum; the "moon order broad meaning" in the record after the mango C day people plum, small department after the day out of the plum. The area of Huizhou and Zhejiang all take the plum rain season after Mangsui. Zhou Chu's "Records of Wind and Land" called the rainy days before the summer solstice as "yellow plum rain". According to Pixi Poetry, in May in Jiangnan, when plums were ripe, it rained for ten days, which was called Huangmeiyu (Yellow Plum Rain). Qing Dynasty Gu Lu's <qingjialu? Huangmeitian cited Xiang WL Dong, said: "Jiangnan in March to welcome the plum rain. Jiangnan in March for the welcome plum rain, May for the send plum rain, thunder and lightning for the broken plum. As for the Lingnan area, because both across the temperate and tropical zones, March and April is the rainy season, the more south, the more abundant rainfall. In Yunnan and Guizhou, the rainy season is March/April, and the further south you go, the more abundant the rainfall. The sky is not clear for three days. in Yunnan and Guizhou. This is all due to the climatic characteristics of the terrain.
Wu used to mango after the non day for mold, the proverb has? Mangseo Feng Nong will be into the mold? The saying. Thus, people will be based on the days of mold, to speculate on the high and low degree of mold. For example, the day of the mango meet non day, is a foot high mold; to the tenth day meet non, is a foot high mold. Do not use the goods after a night, will give birth to mold spots, this time known as the yellow plum day, Fujian Jianning called forbidden Lei day, Hubei Jianli called mold Wang.
Storage of plum water
Mangshan plum rain days of rain, the nature of sweet and smooth, better than the mountain springs, stored in the urn, the water flavor can be unchanged for a long time, like to drink tea are very precious. Tea drinking water is more strict, such as water quality is not beautiful, the tea flavor lost. Food Materia Medica" said:? Plum rain, placed in a vat of water, decoction tea is very beautiful, by the night does not change color easy to taste. Stored in a bottle, can last a long time. In addition, the "tea solution" said:? Tea should be cooked sweet spring, the second plum water plum rain, such as paste everything, rely on the nourishment, the taste is only sweet, after plum will not be able to drink. Wu customs, residents in the beginning of the plum rain, are in the courtyard in a row of large tanks, collect and store rainwater for cooking tea, called plum water. Xu Shineng's "Bamboo Poems of Wuzhong" said: "The rain is not necessarily the yellow plum blossom, but it is the yellow plum blossom. The sunny and cloudy is not sure is yellow plum, the summer air Yan Yan moist green moss. Porcelain urns are filled with rainwater from the sky, and guests come to cook tea at the first time. Plum water can be made in addition to drinks, there is a disinfectant effect, do sauce is easy to cook, just can not be used for brewing vinegar.
Plum rain
Brewing and drinking shochu
Shochu seems to have existed since the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's poem "Lychee House to Wine" says: ? Lychee is newly ripened in the color of the crown of a chicken, and shochu has just begun to bloom with the fragrance of long beat. I would like to pick a branch and pour a cup of wine, no guests in the west building **** who when? Yongtao also wrote a poem: "Since I came to Chengdu, I have been familiar with shaoxing wine. Since I came to Chengdu to cook wine, I don't think I've ever been to Chang'an again. According to the "Square Opinion Shengli" records, the ancient lychee building in the southwest of Nanbin County (now Chongqing Zhongxian), built by Bai Juyi. Yong Tao was a native of Chengdu, so it can be seen that at that time, in the east and west of Sichuan, the wind of brewing and drinking shochu was already very prevalent. In addition, it is recorded in the Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty: "The wine is the roasted spring of Jiannan. In addition, it is written in the Supplement to the National History of the Tang Dynasty that: "The wine is the roasted spring of Jiannan". In the lyrics of Wei Zhuang, he wrote: "The spring water of the Jinjiang River, the Shu women's roasted spring. In the lyrics of Wei Zhuang, he wrote: "The spring water of the Jinjiang River, the roasted spring of the Shu women". It can be seen that shochu is also called shochun, and shochu brewed in Chengdu is the most famous.
People in the Yuan Dynasty called sweat wine, and some people call it AZHIJI wine, the Yuan Dynasty Kushui "drinking food is about to" said that the good wine steamed and boiled to take its distilled water, made of AZHIJI. Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica" is recorded:? Shochu, not the ancient method, since the Yuan Dynasty began to create its method. With thick wine and dregs into the retort steam, so that the gas on, with a device to take drops of dew, where acidic and bad wine can be steamed and burned. In recent times, but to sow rice, or stalked rice, or millet, or Lin, or barley steamed, and the quartz brewing urn for seven days, to steam in the retort, the taste is very strong, cover the wine dew also. The beginning of the Yuan dynasty with the western border suck, shochu may also be a reference to the extraterritorial brewing methods for improvement and get. Liang Zhang refused in the "wanderlust industry talk" quoted Li Zong table called it AZHIJI wine, and cited it? He also quoted his poem, "I have learned the method of sweating wine after years of deep study, and it is as strong as one as ten". The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and I think it was a very good one.
Now everywhere in the production of shochu, the raw materials used are sorghum, barley, corn, mung beans, etc., and sorghum brewed shochu is the most pure. In addition, there are also added flowers and fruits brewed shochu, such as rose shochu, Buddha's hand shochu, papaya shochu and so on.
The flavor of soju is pungent, sweet and strong, and it can raise the sun to disperse, win dampness and dispel cold, open the knot, stop diarrhea, malaria and cold pain, and kill worms and miasma. People in the north drink shochu in all seasons, while people in the south drink it only in the summer.