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Grain Rain solar terms custom
Three elements of seasonal health care in Grain Rain
Is it summer after Grain Rain?
Grain Rain solar terms custom
First of all, take Grain Rain as an example.
There was a custom of "going to Grain Rain" in ancient times. On this day, young women in Grain Rain visited relatives in the village, and some people came back after walking in the wild. The implication is to integrate with nature and keep fit.
Second, drink grain rain tea.
According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. Therefore, no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink.
Third, Grain Rain eats Toona sinensis.
Toona sinensis is eaten in northern Grain Rain, and it is the season for Toona sinensis to go on the market around Grain Rain. At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis is tender as silk before the rain. Toona sinensis has the functions of improving immunity, invigorating stomach, regulating qi, relieving diarrhea, moistening skin, resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation and killing insects.
Fourth, sacrifice to Wen Zu Cang Xie.
Grain Rain's custom of offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Wen Zu, and Grain Rain's offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Baishui County, Shaanxi Province, is a folk tradition that has spread for thousands of years since the Han Dynasty. Qingming to Huangdi, Grain Rain to Cang Xie. Cangjie Temple will be held in Grain Rain Festival. According to legend, Cang Xie created characters and made great contributions to the world. The Yellow Emperor was moved by it and took "Grain Rain" as his reward for creating characters. Since then, there has been a "Grain Rain Festival". Since then, every year on Grain Rain Festival, nearby villagers will organize temple fairs to commemorate Cang Xie.
Five, take a bath to avoid disaster
The river in Grain Rain is also very precious. In the northwest of China, people used to call the Grain Rain River "Peach Blossom Water". It is said that bathing with it can avoid disasters. Grain Rain Festival is celebrated with "Peach Blossom Water" bathing, hunting and dancing.
Six, it is forbidden to kill five poisons
After Grain Rain, the temperature rose, and pests and diseases entered a high breeding period. In order to reduce the harm of pests and diseases to crops and people, farmers put up grain rain stickers and prayed to drive away evil spirits. This custom is very popular in Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi.
Grain Rain stickers are a kind of New Year pictures, which are engraved with images such as hens catching scorpions, heavenly masters eliminating five poisons or magical spells, and some are accompanied by words such as "The old gentleman on the throne is like a dharma, and the snake and scorpion will never be born in mid-March in Grain Rain", "The old gentleman came down to earth in mid-March in Grain Rain, holding a seven-star sword and killing the scorpion essence alone", expressing people's psychology of eliminating pests, looking forward to a bumper harvest and peace.
Seven, Grain Rain sacrifice to the sea.
Grain Rain season is the time when the sea is warm in spring, and it is a good day for hundreds of fish to go to the shallow sea. As the saying goes, "Ride Grain Rain to surf the Internet". In order to go to sea safely and return home with a full load, fishermen in Grain Rain will hold a sea sacrifice on this day to pray for Poseidon's blessing.
Therefore, the Grain Rain Festival is also called the "strong festival" for fishermen to go fishing. This custom is still popular in Rongcheng, Jiaodong. In the past, fishermen were managed by fishing lines in a unified way, and sea sacrifice activities were generally organized by fishing lines. Sacrifice is a fat pig with hair removed and skin peeled, painted red with cavity blood and made 10 cakes with white flour. In addition, firecrackers and incense paper were prepared. If there are no whole pigs in the sea festival organized by fishermen's partnership, they will be replaced by pig heads or steamed pig cakes.
In the past, every village had a sea temple or a mother temple. It's time for sacrifice. Fishermen carry sacrifices to the Temple of the Sea and the Mother Temple, while others carry them to the seaside, beating gongs and drums, setting off firecrackers and offering sacrifices to the sea. The scene is very grand.
Eight, appreciate peony flowers
Grain Rain is also an important time for peony to bloom. So peony flower is also called Grain Rain flower, and it is rich and beautiful. "Three generations of Grain Rain visited peony", and the rainy season has passed for thousands of years. Where there are flowers, there are literati and poets visiting, and at night, people hang curtains and lights to enjoy the flowers, which is called the "Flower Festival". Jia Qinglu, an ancient land in the Qing Dynasty, said: "The temple was built together with the merchants, and the Grain Rain Flower Bureau was brand-new. If you don't believe that there is no national color when you meet, the brocade shed only protects Yulouchun. " Today, there are more peony flowers in Heze, Shandong, Luoyang, Henan and Pengzhou, Sichuan than in Grain Rain, for people to play and get together.
Nine, Miao mountaineering festival
During the period of Grain Rain, the Miao people in Kaili area in southeastern Guizhou will hold a "Mountaineering Festival". Mountaineering Festival, called "Jibo" in Miao language, is an annual unique gathering for mate selection and love among young Miao men and women. Whenever the mountaineering season comes, young men and women take the opportunity of meeting in the market, or at the request of the man or the invitation of the woman, decide to hold mountaineering activities somewhere in the woman's stockade one day. On the Mountain Climbing Festival, thousands of people gathered on the hillside. On the hillside, groups of young men and women are singing, playing sheng and drumming. They use this as a medium to find friends and companions and pursue bosom friends, which is full of festive atmosphere.
The girls of the host prepared rich fish and glutinous rice, took them up the mountain, entertained young students and sang songs to each other. Among them, young men and women look for each other and form a husband and wife in the future to form a happy family. Some old mothers will also show up to help their daughters find partners. When the sun goes down, the girls invite young students to the stockade to continue their love affair and hold a banquet for them again. If they hit it off, they will exchange tokens and get engaged.
In the evening, if there are relatives and friends in the women's stockade, they live in their home. If there are no relatives and friends, the girl and mother invite them home for the night respectively. The younger generation got up and went home at dawn. The girls handed the glutinous rice to the right person, walked with them halfway, and then said goodbye. This unique climbing festival reproduces the ancient matriarchal social life style.
Because it was women, not men, who took the initiative to enter into marriage at that time, this custom is the residual trace of marriage in matriarchal society. Now, many recreational and sports activities have been added to the Miao Mountaineering Festival, such as bullfighting, bird shooting, duet, basketball and running.
X. Forbidden Scorpion Curse
In the old days, a Japanese Grain Rain painting, Zhang Tianshi, was posted on the door in Linfen, Shanxi, named "Forbidden Scorpion". Shaanxi Fengxiang Scorpion Curse is woodcut, which shows that there is a great demand. It was printed with the words: "In Grain Rain, in mid-March, scorpions showed off their bravado. When the chicken takes a bite, the poisonous insect turns into water? " In the center of the picture, the rooster has a bug and a big scorpion under its paw. This painting is printed with a spell.
The saying that the rooster cures the scorpion has been circulating among the people for a long time. Back to the fifty-fifth ghost story novel of Journey to the West, the Monkey King Pig Bajie is no match for Scorpion Essence, and Guanyin knows that he can't get close to him. So we had to ask the Monkey King to invite Pleiadian officials, and it succeeded. Pleiadian officials were originally a rooster with two crowns. It is described in the book that the Pleiadian star official showed his prototype-the rooster, and the rooster called out to the scorpion essence, and the scorpion essence immediately showed its prototype, which was a scorpion the size of a pipa. The cock crowed again, and the scorpion died delicate on the hillside.
Scorpions are also forbidden in Shandong folk customs. Xiajin county annals in the sixth year of Qing Qianlong: "Grain Rain, cinnabar forbids scorpions." The folk custom of "banning scorpions" reflects people's feelings of expelling pests and longing for harvest and peace.
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Three elements of seasonal health care in Grain Rain
First, reasonably increase or decrease clothing.
Although the temperature is getting warmer, it is still cooler in the morning and evening. Those who leave early and return late should pay attention to increasing or decreasing their clothes to avoid catching a cold.
Second, people with allergies should be less exposed to allergens.
People with allergic constitution should prevent pollinosis, allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma this season. Pay special attention to avoid contact with allergens and reduce outdoor activities. Reduce the intake of high-protein and high-calorie foods in the diet, and go to the hospital in time for allergic reactions.
Third, eliminating dampness and protecting health.
After Grain Rain, the humidity in the air gradually increased, which made people uncomfortable from the inside out. From the point of view of TCM health preservation, in such a humid environment, moisture can easily invade the human body, resulting in loss of appetite, heavy body, top-heavy, and sore joint muscles. If you already have various joint diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, it is also easy to induce in this solar term.
Therefore, Grain Rain should pay attention to eliminating dampness and cooperate in diet. The foods with good dampness eliminating effect are: white lentils, red beans, coix seed, yam, lotus leaves, gordon euryales, wax gourd, dried tangerine peel, white radish, lotus root, kelp, bamboo shoots, crucian carp and bean sprouts.
Special note: After Grain Rain, it means that spring is coming to an end. According to the viewpoint of "nourishing liver in spring" in traditional Chinese medicine, we should seize the opportunity to regulate liver blood. At this time, the main points of diet therapy focus on nourishing liver and clearing liver, and nourishing eyesight. Among many vegetables, spinach is the most suitable for nourishing liver. Chinese medicine believes that spinach is sweet, cool and enters the stomach. It has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, benefiting the five internal organs, dredging blood vessels, quenching thirst, moistening intestines, nourishing yin, calming liver, helping digestion and clearing stomach heat and toxin, and is often effective in the adjuvant treatment of stomach diseases due to stagnation of liver qi. It has a good therapeutic effect on hypertension, headache, dizziness and anemia caused by liver yin deficiency in spring.
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Is it summer after Grain Rain? Yes
As far as solar terms are concerned, the next solar term in Grain Rain is Long Summer. It is generally believed that when the long summer arrives, it is summer, and the long summer is the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the summer season. At this time, the temperature rose obviously, the summer heat came, and thunderstorms increased. However, some areas in the northeast and northwest have just entered the spring, and the average temperature in most parts of the country is around 18-20℃. If we want to achieve a real summer, we still need a big country.
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