Small total solar term activity
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In some rural areas, there is an ancient small custom, that is, offering sacrifices to the car god. Legend has it that "Car God" is a white dragon. During Xiaoman Festival, people will put fish, incense sticks, white water and other items on the waterwheel for sacrifice. Sprinkle white water on the ground to keep it moist and not dry.
Busy meetings in summer
In some areas, summer parties were held during the Xiaoman period, that is, market transactions, including mules and horses, grain, farm tools, cloth, groceries and snacks. The main purpose is to exchange and buy production tools, buy and sell livestock, and make full preparations for the summer harvest. It lasts about three to five days, and sometimes a troupe is invited to sing and entertain.
Look, the wheat is a little yellow.
During Xiaoman period, there was a custom in Guanzhong area, that is, the married daughter should visit her family. Just like the festival, the daughter and son-in-law go to her parents' home with gifts to express their condolences, mainly to greet their parents' preparations for the summer harvest and see if there is anything they need to help. The other is to tell my parents that there is still surplus food at home when the green and yellow are not picked up. I hope my parents can rest assured. After the summer harvest, the mother will also visit her daughter to see her work.
Silkworm sacrifice
Legend has it that Xiaoman solar term is the birthday of the silkworm god, so there are silkworm praying festivals in areas where silkworms are raised in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Since ancient times, the raw materials of rural textiles are mainly cotton in the north and silk in the south. Silk is obtained by sericulture, so sericulture is very prosperous in southern rural areas of China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Because silkworms are difficult to raise, people usually hold a festival to pray for silkworms in April to pray for a bumper harvest. Many places in the south have "Silkworm Mother Temple" and "Silkworm Temple". During the silkworm prayer festival, sericulture families will go to these temples to worship and provide rich dishes, drinks and so on. And make it look like a cocoon with flour, and then put the "cocoon" made of flour on it with a handful of straw, hoping to have a good harvest.
Quadrilateral gyro
Before and after Xiaoman, people often eat a kind of seasonal food called "Twisting", which means that everything goes well and everything is auspicious, so it is widely loved by ordinary people.
This "twist" is actually a kind of noodles. In Xiaoman period, wheat was immature, but full. People choose some full and hard grains, cut them off, take them out, fry them in a pot, and then grind them into noodles about an inch long with a stone mill with grinding teeth. Then add sesame sauce, minced garlic, shredded cucumber and other seasonings to these noodles, and make a delicious and unique "twist".
Youcha noodles
During Xiaoman period, there was also a northern seasonal snack called Youcha noodles. People also cut the ear of wheat with relatively large particles and grind it into flour. Stir-fry the flour until it is yellow with a small fire, then take it out, put oil in the pot, burn it until it smokes, and immediately pour it into the cooked flour and stir it evenly. Finally, stir-fry black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds, stir-fry walnut kernels, peel them, chop them into fine powder, and pour them into the fried melon seeds and stir them evenly.
Small solar terms health food
1, wax gourd
It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving restlessness, and is suitable for summer heat, polydipsia, edema, dysuria, thirst quenching, drinking water, edema and dyspnea.
2. onions (surname)
It has the effects of regulating stomach, regulating qi, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, detoxicating and killing insects, and is suitable for chest distress, excessive expectoration and dysuria.
3. purslane
It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice and gingivitis.
4, crucian carp
It has the effects of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, weakness, thirst, edema and dysuria.
5. abalone
It has the effects of nourishing blood, softening liver, nourishing yin, clearing away heat, improving eyesight, promoting diuresis, and relieving arthralgia, and is suitable for internal heat due to yin deficiency, amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, galactorrhea due to yin deficiency, yang hyperactivity due to yin deficiency, night blindness cataract, and damp-heat stranguria.
6. Corn
It has the effects of regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for urinary calculi or edema of chronic nephritis, hypertension, anorexia, etc.
7.sorghum
It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, eliminating dampness and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for children's dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea due to damp heat, and diarrhea.
8. Coix seed
It is beneficial to diuresis, dampness absorption, spleen strengthening and diarrhea stopping, and is suitable for short and red urine, edematous beriberi, rheumatalgia, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, verruca plana, etc.
9, lentils
It has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating middle energizer, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for summer heat-dampness vomiting, spleen deficiency vomiting, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea and edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc.
10, Oenanthe javanica
It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for stranguria, hemorrhage, leukorrhagia, etc.
What fruit does Xiaoman eat in solar terms?
1, litchi
Litchi is mainly produced in the south and is known as the "king of fruits". Litchi has the functions of invigorating spleen and nourishing blood, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, regulating qi and relieving pain. When picking, you can gently pinch the litchi in your hand first, and the good litchi feels firm and elastic. From the appearance, the color of fresh litchi is generally not very bright. If the cracked piece of litchi shell is flat, the suture line is obvious and the taste is sweet.
2. Myrica rubra
In hot summer, it is inevitable that you have a bad appetite and don't want to eat. Yangmei can help you increase your appetite. Myrica rubra contains a variety of organic acids and a lot of vitamin C. We all know that Myrica rubra tastes a little sour. Acidic things will promote appetite and strengthen gastrointestinal digestion, so eating Myrica rubra can increase the acidity in the stomach, digest food and promote appetite.
3. green plum
Early summer is the world of green plum, which contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, conditioning intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. But the fresh fruit of green plum is sour and can't be eaten directly. It needs to be processed and eaten, and the most famous one is the boiled wine with green plums.
4.plums
Plum is an indispensable fruit in summer. Slightly sour plums are rich in vitamin C. Because plums are 85% water, it helps to relieve hunger and make people feel full, so it is an ideal diet food. Plums are also rich in dietary fiber, which helps gastrointestinal movement and defecation and reduces constipation.