Guyu eat toon, umi rice, Guyu tea and other customary food good.

1, toon: before and after the rain is a good time to eat toon, as the saying goes, "before the rain toon buds tender and incomparable, after the rain toon buds raw wood body", at this time the toon mellow and refreshing.

2, umi rice: Zhaoxing Dong villages have valley rain to eat umi rice custom, young men and women will also be in the rain this day to fully express their feelings of adoration.

3, Guyu tea: also known as the rain before the tea, is the Guyu season picking spring tea, Guyu day, people will go to the tea mountain to pick some new tea back to drink.

Guyu's origin

Tongwei - filial piety Jing aid Shenqi: 15 days after the Qingming, the bucket refers to the eons, for the Guyu, the middle of March, said the rain is born in all the valleys clean and clear also. Astronomy, the sun runs on the ecliptic to reach 30 ° longitude for the rain, which generally fall on April 19-21 every year.

To this time of year, the crops in the field especially need to be moisturized by rain, there is a spring rain is as expensive as oil, the ancient Chinese agriculture is to rely on the sky to eat, only rain in the sky, on the ground of the hundreds of valleys can grow, and this time of year, more and more rain, the hundreds of valleys are expected to be a bumper harvest, the rain is born in the hundreds of valleys, hence the name of the Valley Rain.

Because the Cangjie word merit sense of heaven, the Jade Emperor also gave the earth a grain rain, to comfort the holy work, which is now the "grain rain" festival.