Beef, coriander, spinach, chicken liver.

Folklore: "Beating cattle" means persuading farmers to plow their fields in spring and pray for a bumper harvest. According to legend, it was the Duke of Zhou who became a local cow when he was in beginning of spring. In addition to beginning of spring, there is also the custom of biting spring on this day, that is, eating spring cakes, spring vegetables and biting radishes.

coriander

Rain Water

Pumpkin, millet, bean sprouts, roses.

The daughter who got married on this day went to visit her parents with gifts. Women who have given birth must bring canned meat, chairs and other gifts to thank their parents for their kindness.

Vegetable pumpkin

Awakening of Insects

Peas, black rice, jellyfish, water chestnut.

Folklore: Sacrificing a white tiger to solve right and wrong means worshipping paper and painting a white tiger. Paper tigers are usually yellow and black, and their horns are painted with a pair of fangs. When worshipping, feed it with the blood of the fat pig, so that it won't hurt people when it is full, and then put raw pork on the mouth of the paper tiger to make it dare not open its mouth to tell people right and wrong.

Spring Equinox

Jujube, yam, tremella.

Folklore: On this day, there will be activities such as laying eggs, sending pictures of spring cows, sticking bird's mouths and offering spring sacrifices.

Health tea, red dates, ginger tea, tea-

Pure brightness

Shepherd's purse, oats, chrysanthemum.

Folklore: In addition to banning fires and sweeping graves, there are a series of folk sports activities, such as hiking, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.

Grain Rain

Poria cocos, bean sprouts.

Folklore: It is forbidden to kill farmers with five poisons. When entering the fields to kill insects, paste Grain Rain stickers to pray for exorcism.

early summer

Papaya, duck, hawthorn.

Folklore: among the people, people drink cold drinks to cool off in summer. In summer, there is a custom of boiling tender broad beans in Jiangnan water town.

Grain Buds

Cherry day lily

Folklore: There is a saying in Jiangnan that "three cars move to one car". The so-called "three cars" are waterwheels, spinning wheels and oil tankers. Jiangnan is the season of topdressing early rice and transplanting middle rice. If the field is not filled with water, it will crack and cannot be transplanted. Therefore, people will use human or animal power to drive waterwheels to irrigate rice fields.

cherry

Grain in Ear

Eggplant, wax gourd.

Folklore: Send flowers to the flower god. Meet the flower god at the flower festival on the second day of the second lunar month. In southern Anhui, there will be an Miao farming custom that began in the early Ming Dynasty, in order to pray for bumper harvests and villagers' safety.

Summer solstice

Mung beans, bitter gourd.

Folklore: Cold noodles are widely eaten in all parts of Shandong, commonly known as water. There is a proverb that says, "There is jiaozi on the solstice in winter and noodles on the solstice in summer". In Guangdong, people like to nourish and cool food in summer.

Minor Heat

Luffa and Monopterus albus

Folklore: There is a folk proverb: "jiaozi is on his head, on his face, on his face, on his face, on his face, on his face, on his pancake, on his face, on his face." From this day on, we entered the dog days. Therefore, eating jiaozi on the head is a traditional custom. Xuzhou people lie in wait to eat mutton, which is called "lying in wait to eat sheep". This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period.

Major Heat

Ginger, lettuce, kiwi fruit.

Folklore: Guangdong proverb: Eat fairy grass when it is hot in June and live like a fairy forever. Xiancao is "Xiancao", and people in Putian, Fujian want to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains to "cool off the heat". There is a traditional nourishing method in central and northern Hunan, which is to eat chicken in summer. In southeastern Hunan, there is also the custom of eating ginger in hot summer. You don't need a doctor's prescription to eat radish in winter and ginger in summer.

Fresh ginger traditional Chinese medicine seasoning-

Beginning of Autumn

Lemon and sesame.

Folklore: The main customs in beginning of autumn are: beginning of autumn Festival, autumn touching, autumn busy parties, autumn fat stickers and so on. People weigh themselves with hanging scales in early autumn, compared with their weight in the long summer.

The heat has passed.

Jellyfish, tremella, lily.

Folklore: Around summer, people will hold activities to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "July 30th" or "Mid-Autumn Festival". People often gather around rivers and lakes to set off river lanterns for drowning ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water. There is a custom of brewing Bailu rice wine in the south. Bailu rice wine is brewed from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

White Dew

Walnut, fungus, honey.

Start harvesting sorghum and early-maturing corn.

walnut

Autumn Equinox

Tremella, sesame, walnut, glutinous rice.

Folklore: The custom of cooking jiaozi is to eat a kind of wild vegetable called "wild amaranth", which is also called "autumn Artemisia" in some places.

Cold Dew

Beans, kelp and seaweed.

Folklore: So the Double Ninth Festival is also included, so there are climbing activities. At the same time, you have to eat flower cakes. Because "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, a proper amount of cake is called "Chongyang Flower Cake", which means "step by step".

Frost's Descent

Ginkgo biloba, chestnuts, peanuts.

Folklore: eat persimmons. As the saying goes, "eating persimmons in the first frost will not cause a runny nose." Shandong agricultural proverbs: summer sorghum, Bailu valley, first frost radish.

Yellow rice wine and peanuts-

Beginning of Winter

Soymilk, eggs, walnuts, almonds.

Folklore: In ancient society, on this day, the emperor would lead 100 officials to set up an altar in the northern suburb of Beijing for sacrifice. There is a folk custom of eating jiaozi, and there is a proverb that "beginning of winter supplements winter and lips", which is the best metaphor.

Minor Snow

Beef, cabbage and chestnuts.

Folk custom: bacon; Eating Baba (In ancient times, Baba was a traditional festival sacrifice in southern China, and it was the earliest sacrifice that farmers used to worship the cow god. As the saying goes, "October, Baba" refers to sacrifice.

Major Snow

Crucian carp, sea cucumber, walnut.

Folklore: there is a saying in northern Shandong that "drive the wheels to the door and drink red sticky porridge"; In old Nanjing, there is a saying called "light snow pickles, heavy snow pickles". The heavy snow is coming, and every household is busy pickling "salty goods".

Winter solstice

Kiwi, sugarcane, grapefruit.

Folklore: Wonton Noodles. In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing called "the solstice in winter is Wonton Noodles, and the solstice in summer"; Eat dog meat and mutton; Eat jiaozi. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." On this day in the south, people pay attention to eating red beans and glutinous rice.

Fruit friends in the supermarket

Minor Cold

Chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, jujube, longan.

Folk custom: Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice; Eat glutinous rice in Guangdong.

Major Cold

Chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, jujube, longan.

Folklore: Guangdong Lingnan has the custom of catching voles in the cold. During this period, there is also a very important day-Laba, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with whole grains.