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What do you mean, everything can be harvested?

Xiaoman solar terms are coming. In China people's dialectical thinking, it is believed that "fullness will lead to losses, modesty will benefit". If things are too satisfactory, they will change in a bad direction, and small fullness will be better.

Twenty-four solar terms are small and full, meaning "small gains, small gains are perfect". Xiaoman, the eighth of the 24 solar terms, is the second solar term in summer.

After Xiaoman eats enough, the weather will gradually turn from warm to hot, and the precipitation will gradually increase. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "the villain is full of rivers". Xiaoman marks the appearance of summer. At this point, it is too small to be full: summer crops such as wheat are full but immature, so it is called Xiao Man.