What do you want to do during the planting season? What farm work are there in the sowing season?

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.

2. Boil plums.

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.

3. Farming Day.

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 they sympathized with the human famine, they secretly planted grass seeds. As a result, weeds grew wildly and saved livestock, and the farmland was flooded with weeds, so farmers could not cultivate. In order to punish cattle, God ordered them to plow the earth until today.

Ploughing is a seasonal manifestation of farmers in the mountainous areas around Yunhe and Meiyuan starting spring ploughing. In the past, the ploughing festival was called "Ox King Festival".

4. Send flowers to 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 story 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 gauze into a thousand-storey building. 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.