Mango, the third solar term in summer, marks the official start of midsummer. The literal meaning of awn seed is: wheat with awn can be harvested quickly, and rice with awn can be planted. The agricultural proverb says "plant crops, plant crops", which is the busiest farming season in a year. Many places will also usher in hot weather, and the rain will gradually enter its heyday. People move over time, and the wheat, yellow and plum frogs are ripe ... This is the most vivid interpretation of this season.
Grain in Ear
The bucket refers to C, and the solar calendar reaches 75.
When it rains, plant awns, and plant them in the fields.
Summer sowing is the busy time of summer harvest, and the fields are busy. The farmers are working hard and looking forward to another bumper harvest.
The word "Mangzi" originated from Zhou Li. The word "awn" of awn seed refers to the harvest of awned plants such as wheat, and the word "seed" of awn seed refers to the season of sowing millet crops. The homonym of "awn seed" means that all crops are "busy sowing".
This is a solar term including sowing and harvesting. After experiencing the baptism of thunderstorm, smoky pottery dyeing and the test of hot summer, I wish you busy and persistent, still firm, sow the seeds of hope, cultivate the seedlings of dreams and harvest beautiful fruits!
| Three Stages of Mango |
Wait, mantis was born.
"The cicada sings and the mantis is in a hurry, and the fish is deep and green." These are the beautiful scenery in summer. Mantis was born in the forest in late autumn, carrying hundreds of children's shells, and then broke out.
When waiting for the second time, the anchovy (jú) began to sing.
In the last five days, "Ji (jú) began to sing", and "Ji" was a shrike, named after its sound. The book of songs "sings in July", and July is summer and May.
The word "Lao" in the idiom "Lao Yan flies apart" refers to this kind of bird. Shrike is usually used in ancient poetry to describe the separation of husband and wife, lovers and relatives and friends. But in fact, the migration direction of shrike and swallow is north in summer and south in winter. In the song, "Shrike flies to the east and swallow flies to the west" only expresses the sadness of migration, and later generations look forward to the significance of literature, which is extended to "go their separate ways".
Third class, silent tongue.
On the fifth day, "the tongue is silent", that is, the bitter ancestors. "Mantis and anchovies are all yin-like, feeling slightly yin or singing, and the tongue feels yang-like, and it is silent when it meets slightly yin."
Kuzu, scientific name of blackbird (D not Dūng). Swedish national bird. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Kuzu has been kept as a pet bird. There is an old saying in China: "The moon in midsummer has a silent tongue; The phrase "the tongue is singing and the people are on the side" holds that mockingbirds can distinguish faithfulness from treachery.
| Mangzhong Poetry |
Twenty-four poems are in harmony, and the Mangzhong May Festival is celebrated.
Don
Look at today, mantis should still be alive.
Clouds are high and shadows are high, and birds come and go.
Lotus blooms in the swamp, and it is windy and rainy in summer.
Ask silkworm wheat when we meet. It's still a favor.
intermittent drizzles (in the middle and lower reaches of the Chang Jiang River)
Don du fu
Nanjing Xipu Road, April ripe Huangmei.
Zhan Zhan arrived at the Yangtze River, and the drizzle came.
Hair is sparse and easy to wet, and clouds are dense and difficult to open.
Unexpectedly, Longxi, vortex shore home.
Rain (excerpt)
Song luyou
When it rains, plant awns, and plant them in the fields.
Every family is beautiful in wheat and rice, and songs are long everywhere.
York
Song Zhao Shi Xiu
Mei Huang Shi, every family was flooded by rain, and the pond was covered with green grass and frogs.
It's past midnight, and the invited guests haven't come yet. I tapped the chess pieces bored and shook the wick of an oil lamp.
Ili chronicle poems
Hong Qing Ji Liang
Only when the awn seeds have passed the snow can the grass outside the Yili River begin to fertilize.
Ikoma can't walk steadily step by step for fear that a snake will fly out of his nose.
Mang seed custom
| Plum shochu |
In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plums cook wine as heroes" in the Three Kingdoms. 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.
Send flowers to God |
It is an ancient folk custom to send flowers to the gods during the awning season. Meet the flower god at the flower festival on the second day of the second lunar month. In May, the flowers began to wither and the flower god abdicated. Therefore, people often hold a ceremony to worship the flower god on the flower day, and at the same time express their gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. A Dream of Red Mansions once described mang seeds sending flowers to immortals, and "Daiyu burying flowers" became a classic scene in China literature.
The 27th time in A Dream of Red Mansions: "The next day is April 26th, which was not the time for the Ear and Seed Festival. In ancient customs, all kinds of gifts were placed to worship the flower god on Mango Festival. It was summer when the ears were planted and all the flowers withered. When the flower god abdicates, he will say goodbye. However, this custom is popular in boudoir, so people in Grand View Garden get up early. "
Chapter 27 of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Those girls, either weaving sedan-chair horses with petals and willow branches, or folding brocade yarn into the dry building, are all tied with colored threads. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. The embroidered ribbons in the garden are fluttering, and the flowers in bloom fall. "
Anmiao |
Anmiao is a farming custom 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.
Busy health
In this season, the weather is hot, the body should replenish water in time to prevent dehydration and heatstroke, and at the same time strengthen the maintenance of the heart, especially the elderly should consciously carry out psychological conditioning; Diet should be based on clearing heat and promoting diuresis. Try not to eat or eat less hot foods such as mutton, and eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach and eliminate dampness.
Mango needs food.
cucumber
When summer-heat and dampness invade the human body, it will lead to pore opening, hyperhidrosis, qi deficiency, spleen-stomach dysfunction and indigestion. Proper intake of cool vegetables is conducive to promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels. Cucumber is the representative of cool vegetables.
wood ear
Auricularia auricula is sweet, flat and belongs to the stomach; Has the effects of invigorating qi, moistening lung, strengthening brain, reducing weight and cooling blood. Auricularia auricula is known as "vascular scavenger". Eating more black fungus in summer, on the one hand, is conducive to detoxification and laxative, on the other hand, it has the effect of cooling blood and appetizing.
carp
Carps in early summer are in spawning season. A lot of fat and nutrients are accumulated in the body, and the body is fat and strong, so meat tastes the most fragrant and sweet. The climate is warm and humid, so drinking carp soup properly will help to dispel dampness, stimulate appetite, induce diuresis and reduce swelling.
Plum syrup
Since ancient times, it has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting digestion, relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, relieving fatigue and eliminating dizziness. Sour plum soup tastes sour and alkaline and is the best drink in summer. Sour plum soup can be cooked in casserole or stainless steel pot, but it must not be cooked in iron pot.