What are the folk customs of Mang solar terms?
Mango custom sends flowers to God.
On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower festival welcomes the flower god. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. This custom no longer exists today, but we can get a glimpse from the twenty-seventh chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin: "Those girls (in the Grand View Garden) are all tied up with colored threads, or woven with petals and willow branches, or stacked with brocade and tulle. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. Embroidered ribbons are flying in the garden and flowers are in full bloom. What's more, these people are all out of the wall, and they are ashamed of the oriole, and they can't say enough for a while. ..... "The" thousand "in" Thousand Buildings "is a shield; Luo, Jing and Zhuang are all ancient flags. At the top of Luo flagpole is a yak tail flag. Jing is similar to Luo, except that it is decorated with colorful folded feathers, and the building shape is umbrella-shaped. It can be seen that the mango festival of a large family is a lively scene for the flower god to bid farewell.
The custom of hanging wormwood on awn seeds
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, mosquitoes breed, and diseases are easy to spread, so May is called "the month of all poisons". In ancient times, wormwood was hung on the lintel to repel mosquitoes. Because this solar term coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), every household hangs calamus on the lintel to ward off evil spirits and poison. Therefore, May was also called "general month" in ancient times.
The customs in this solar term are mostly mixed with the Dragon Boat Festival celebrations. As the saying goes, "jiaozi can't be delivered without a sip." It means that after the Dragon Boat Festival, it is really summer.
The custom of awning seedlings
Anmiao is a kind of farming folk activity in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice. Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.
The custom of fighting mud battles
Young Dong men and women in southeastern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting hemp. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, played with each other while planting rice seedlings and threw mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.
The custom of boiling plums with mango core
In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plum Boils Wine as a Hero" in the Three Kingdoms. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums.
Mang seed custom plough festival
There is a "Plowing Festival" in Yunhe County, Zhejiang Province, which is held on the day of Mango Festival in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar. There is a legend in Yunhe Meiyuan: cattle are the grass managers in the sky. Because he sympathized with the human famine, he secretly planted grass seeds, and as a result, weeds grew wildly to save livestock, and the farmland was flooded with weeds, so farmers could not cultivate. In order to punish the cow, God ordered him to go down to earth to plow the fields until today. Farming is the seasonal embodiment that farmers in mountainous areas around Yunhe Meiyuan begin to plow in spring. In the past, the ploughing festival was called "Ox King Festival".