Today is Xiaoman. In fact, there are many interesting ancient poems about Xiaoman solar term. However, most of Xiaoman's stories are related to silkworm God. I don't know if you have known about it. Here's the story about Xiaoman. Come and have a look!
The story of Xiaoman solar term
From the book of mountains and seas more than 4000 years ago, there are records in the overseas North Sutra of cannu kneeling beside mulberry trees and spinning silk in Europe silk kingdom. In the book of Soushenji of Jin Dynasty, the cannu is interpreted as the silkworm God of horse head, which is often called ma touniang. The people of Hangzhou, Jiahu and Hangzhou generations like to call her "silkworm flower Niang". Every year when they raise silkworms, they are very happy I'll come to see Madame silkworm.
There are three stories about the silkworm God above. Although the story has been spread for thousands of years, the framework of the story has not changed much, but the details are different. These differences will open up a field of vision for you to see something different.
We have classified these stories into the folktale library. Of course, there are more stories related to silkworms. For example, the first one to raise silkworms has many versions of stories, and we also put them into the subclass Xiaoman under 24 solar terms.
This kind of silkworm God story involves a very old story theme: the marriage between man and animal. The story of this theme is quite common in China and Japan, but it has not been seen in Western stories.
The meaning of Xiaoman solar term
Xiaoman is one of the 24 solar terms, the second solar term in summer. When the sun reaches 60 & deg; of Huangjing on May 21 or 22 every year, it is a little full. "Yueling 72 Hou Ji Jie": "in April, when things are small and full, they are small and full. At this time, the grain of wheat and other summer crops in northern China has begun to plump, but it has not yet matured, which is about the late milk stage, so it is called Xiaoman. At this time, we should pay close attention to the prevention and control of pests in wheat field, and prevent the attack of dry hot wind, sudden thunderstorm, gale and hail. In the south, we should pay close attention to the topdressing and cultivation of rice, promote the division of rice, and harvest and air dry summer crops on sunny days. After Xiaoman, the area from the south of the Yellow River to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River began to have a high temperature of more than 35 ℃. The relevant departments and units should pay attention to heatstroke prevention. Disaster prevention in Xiaoman season.