Xiaoman solar terms folk custom
1, offering sacrifices to Che Shen
Sacrificing the car god is an ancient small custom in some rural areas. In related legends, "Car God" is a white dragon. In Xiaoman season, people will put fish, incense sticks and other items on the waterwheel for worship. The most interesting thing is that there will be a glass of white water during the sacrifice, which will be poured into the field during the sacrifice, meaning to bless the lush water source.
2. Sacrifice silkworms
According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, so when Xiaoman is in the solar term, there is a silkworm blessing festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. China's farming culture is a typical "male ploughing and female weaving", and the raw materials of female weaving are mainly cotton in the north and silk in the south. Silk needs to be spun from cocoons, so sericulture is extremely prosperous in rural areas in southern China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Silkworms are pampered "pets" and are difficult to feed. Temperature, humidity, cold, mature, dry and wet mulberry leaves will all affect the survival of silkworms. Silkworms were regarded as a "godsend" in ancient times because they were difficult to raise. In order to pray for the forgiveness of "natural things" and the harvest of sericulture, people hold a silkworm prayer festival when they release silkworms in April.
There is no fixed date for praying for silkworms, and each family will hold a "silkworm release" on the same day, but the difference is no more than two or three days. Many places in the south have built "Silkworm Mother Temple" and "Silkworm Temple". Silkworm farmers should bow down to "Mother Silkworm" and "Silkworm God" at the Silkworm Prayer Festival, offering wine, fruit and rich dishes. In particular, we should make a cocoon of flour, tie a straw mountain with straw, and cover it with a "cocoon of flour" to symbolize the harvest of silkworm cocoons.
The patriarch summoned all the families, fixed the date and arranged the preparations. At the dawn of Xiaoman, he lit a torch to eat wheat cakes, wheat cakes and wheat balls. The patriarch took the drum gong as the signal, and everyone took the hammer as the signal. They set foot on the pre-installed waterwheel, and dozens of cars marched together to pump the river into the field until it dried up.
3. Xiaoman moved three cars.
Xiaoman Festival is in early summer, and it is cocooned, so it is just waiting for reeling. In the south of the Yangtze River, from the day when she was full, silkworm women used a silk reeling car to cook cocoons and began to silk reeling, and took rapeseed to Snoely to extract oil. During the drought, they used water trucks to scoop water into the ground, which is called "small man moving three cars" by the people.
4. Look at the yellow tip of wheat
In Guanzhong area, every year when the wheat is about to mature, the married daughter will go to her parents' house to meet the preparations for the summer harvest. This custom is called "Look at the yellow ears of wheat", which is very poetic. Son-in-law and daughter, like a festival, expressed their condolences to their parents with gifts such as buns, apricots and cucumbers. As the agricultural proverb goes, "the wheat is pointed yellow, and the woman cares for her mother." If she removes the shackles, her mother will take care of her enemies. " Before catching the summer, my daughter went to ask her parents about the preparation of the wheat harvest and catch up with Xia Hou. My mother went to visit her daughter again and cared about her work. And Xiaoman cried, much like a country girl's name.
5. Busy meetings in summer
In some places, summer busy parties are also held, the main purpose of which is to exchange and buy production tools, buy and sell livestock, buy and sell grain and so on. The duration is usually 3-5 days, and then you will sing big dramas for entertainment.
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.
Xiaoman health care recipe
1, boiled eggs of white crucian carp
Ingredients: white crucian carp, eggs.
Ingredients: ginger and pepper.
Practice: wash the white crucian carp, fry it until it is slightly yellow, splash a little water and pick it up. Fry the eggs into poached eggs and scoop them up. Saute ginger slices in oil pan, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high fire, boil crucian carp for a while, add poached eggs, add appropriate amount of salt and pepper after boiling.
Efficacy: eliminating dampness and appetizing.
2, melon grass carp pot
Raw materials: grass carp and wax gourd.
Ingredients: salt, monosodium glutamate, vegetable oil.
Practice: Peel the wax gourd, wash and cut into triangular pieces, cut the grass carp clean, and leave the tail to wash. Fry grass carp in oil until golden brown, take a casserole, put some water, and put the fish and wax gourd together in the casserole. After the fire boils, simmer for about 2 hours. This soup is white. Season with salt and monosodium glutamate.
Efficacy: calming the liver and expelling wind, promoting diuresis and clearing heat.
3, celery mixed with tofu
Ingredients: celery and tofu.
Ingredients: salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil.
Practice: cut celery into small pieces, cut tofu into small squares, blanch with boiling water, remove and cool with cold boiling water, and control the water for later use. Stir-fry celery and tofu, add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil and stir well.
Efficacy: calming liver and clearing heat, diuretic and detoxifying.
4. Fried duck with green pepper
Ingredients: duck breast, green pepper, eggs.
Ingredients: yellow rice wine, salt, dried starch, fresh soup, monosodium glutamate, water starch and vegetable oil.
Practice: Slice the duck breast, wash it with clear water and drain it. Mix eggs with dry starch and salt, and mix with duck slices evenly for sizing. Remove seeds and pedicels from green pepper, wash and slice. When the pan is hot, add oil and heat it to 40% heat. Put the duck slices in the pot and spread them out with a spoon. Stir-fry until 80% cooked, add green pepper, and pour duck slices into a colander to pour oil after cooking. Leave a little oil in the pot, add salt, wine and fresh soup to boil, then pour in sliced duck, green pepper and water starch, stir-fry for a few times and serve.
Efficacy: warming the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
5. horseshoe lotus root soup
Raw materials: water chestnut and lotus root.
Ingredients: appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: Water chestnut is washed and peeled, and lotus root is washed and cut into small pieces. Add a proper amount of water to the casserole, put water chestnut and lotus root into the casserole, simmer for 20 minutes, add rock sugar, stew for 10 minute, and serve.
Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and appetizing.