In June, the weather is hot and sunny, which is the favorite climate for many crops. And mangzhong is the busy farming season, which is also the ninth solar term of the 24 solar terms, indicating the official start of midsummer. What is the planting time in 2019? What are the folk activities of mangzhong?
What's the time
June 6, 2019, 07:06:18, Thursday, the fourth day of the fifth lunar month.
What's the meaning of mangzhong
'awn' refers to awned crops such as wheat and barley, and 'seed' refers to seeds. It means that wheat and other crops with awn are mature. The Big Dipper has been pointed to when the grain is planted. The Yellow meridian of the sun is 75 & deg;. This time is the most suitable time for sowing cereal crops with awn. After this time, it is not good to grow crops with awn again.
Mangzhong folk activities
Send Huashen
On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower god is welcomed at the flower festival. In May, the flowers began to wither and fall. Most of the people held sacrificial ceremonies on mangzhong day to send the flower god back to his place. At the same time, they expressed their gratitude to the flower god and looked forward to meeting again next year.
This custom no longer exists today, but it can be seen from the 27th chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin: "in the Grand View Garden, the girls, who weave sedan chairs and horses with petals and willows, or pile thousands of banners with silk and brocade gauze, are all tied with colored threads. These things are tied to every tree and flower. All over the garden, there are embroidered ribbons and colorful flowers, and these people are all dressed up in shame, and the swallows are envious of the warblers& hellip;& hellip;'
The 'thousand' in the 'thousand banners' is the shield; The banners, banners and buildings are ancient flags. It can be seen from this that the big family's mangzhong Festival is a lively scene of Flower God's farewell.
An Miao
It is a kind of farming custom in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every time it comes to the grain growing season, after planting rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, sacrifice activities will be held everywhere. Every household uses the new wheat flour evaporation bag, kneads the flour into the shape of five grains, six livestock, fruits and vegetables, and then uses the vegetable juice to dye the color, as a sacrificial offering, praying for the bumper grain and the safety of the villagers.
Fight in mud
The young men and women of Dong Nationality in the southeast of Guizhou hold mud fighting festival every year before and after planting. On the same day, the newlyweds were accompanied by young men and women who were close friends. They planted rice seedlings in groups. They were fighting and throwing mud at each other. At the end of the activity, check the results. The most mud on the body is the most popular person.
Boiled plum
In the south, plum ripens in May and June every year. In the Three Kingdoms, there is an allusion that "green plum cooks wine to talk about heroes". Green plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals. It has unique nutrition and health care functions such as blood purification, whole intestine, reducing blood fat, eliminating fatigue, beauty, adjusting acid-base balance, enhancing human immunity and so on. However, most of the fresh plums taste sour and astringent, so it is difficult to eat them directly. They need to be processed before they can be eaten.