Mango is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, which indicates the official start of the midsummer season. At this time, the sun reached 75 degrees. The word "awn" of awn seed refers to the harvest of awned plants such as wheat, and the word "species" of awn seed refers to the season of sowing millet crops. The homonym of "awn seed" means that all crops are "busy sowing". Therefore, "awn seed" is also called "busy planting" and "busy planting", which is the spread and sowing of farmers' friends. The arrival of "Mangzi" indicates that farmers have started their busy field life.

2. The custom of awn seeds

(1) Fighting in the mud

Young Dong men and women in southeastern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting hemp. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, playing with each other while planting rice seedlings and throwing mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

(2) Boiling 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. Mangzhong Healthy Soup

(1) Lycium barbarum sashimi soup

Lycium barbarum 15g, walnut kernel 60g, raw fish 1 strip, lean meat 50g, 4 red dates and 3 slices of ginger.

Soak medlar and walnut slightly, wash impurities and clean lean meat; Wash the raw fish and fry until it is slightly yellow; Put all the ingredients together in a clay pot, add about 2000 ml of water, boil with strong fire, then simmer for about an hour, and then add salt.

Efficacy: Lycium barbarum has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing yin and improving eyesight. Walnut also has the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening brain, improving intelligence and warming lung. Cooked raw fish is soup, which is delicious, moist and delicious. It has the effects of strengthening the brain, improving intelligence and strengthening the body, and has a mild taste. For candidates or white-collar workers, it is a soup to soothe the nerves and strengthen the brain.

(2) Lotus root and apple sparerib soup

Ingredients: apple, ribs, lotus root, ginger, onion, a little vinegar.

Wash fresh ribs and lotus root and cut into small pieces; Add water to the pressure cooker, add all the ingredients and cook for 30-40 minutes; Add the cut apples and cook for a few minutes.

Efficacy: eating lotus root can replenish blood and marrow, soothe the nerves and strengthen the brain. Lotus root and apple ribs soup can not only supplement high-quality protein, but also supplement minerals and vitamins such as calcium and phosphorus, enhance immunity, improve intelligence and strengthen brain.