Beef, coriander, spinach, chicken liver.

Folklore: "Beating cattle" is to persuade farmers to plow in spring and pray for a bumper harvest. According to legend, Bai is a native cow made by Duke Zhou in early spring. In addition to playing spring, there is also the custom of biting spring, that is, eating spring cakes, spring vegetables, biting radishes and so on.

2. It's raining.

Pumpkin, millet, bean sprouts, roses.

The daughters who got married on this day have returned to their parents' home with gifts. Women who have given birth to children must bring gifts such as canned meat and chairs to thank their parents for their kindness.

3, in a daze.

Peas, black rice, jellyfish, water chestnut.

Folk custom: Sacrificing the white tiger to resolve right and wrong is a white tiger painted with paper, which is generally yellow and black with a pair of fangs painted on the corner. When offering sacrifices, you need to feed it with the blood of the fat pig, so that it won't hurt people after eating it, and then put raw pork on the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it is covered with oil and water and can't open its mouth to tell people right and wrong.

4. vernal equinox.

Jujube, yam, tremella.

Folklore: On this day, there will be activities such as laying eggs, sending pictures of spring cows, putting up birds' mouths, and Spring Festival.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Shepherd's purse, oats, chrysanthemum.

Folklore: In addition to paying attention to prohibiting fire from sweeping graves, there are also a series of folk sports activities such as jogging, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.

6. Grain Rain.

Smilax glabra, bean sprouts.

Folklore: it is forbidden for farmers to kill with five poisons when they go to the fields to kill insects, and at the same time, they put up stickers of grain rain to pray for exorcism.

7. Long summer.

Papaya, duck and hawthorn.

Folklore: In the folk, people drink cold drinks to cool off in summer. In summer, there is a custom of boiling tender broad beans in Jiangnan water town.

8. Xiaoman.

Cherry, day lily.

Folklore: There is a saying in Jiangnan that "a villain moves three cars". The so-called "three cars" are waterwheels, spinning wheels and oil trucks. Xiaoman is the season of topdressing early rice and transplanting middle rice in Jiangnan. If the field is not filled with water, it will cause the ridge to dry up and it is impossible to transplant rice seedlings, so people use manpower or animal power to drive the waterwheel to irrigate the paddy field.

9. Miscanthus.

Eggplant, wax gourd.

Folklore: Flowers are sent to greet the gods on the second day of the second lunar month. In southern Anhui, there will be an Miao's agricultural custom activities, which began in the early Ming Dynasty, praying for a bumper harvest of grain and the safety of villagers.

10, summer solstice.

Mung beans, bitter gourd.

Folklore: Cold noodles are commonly eaten in all parts of Shandong Province, commonly known as water, and there is a proverb that "noodles are eaten on the winter solstice, and summer solstice is the day". In Guangdong, people like to nourish and eat cold food in summer to escape the heat.

1 1, Xiao Shu.

Luffa and Monopterus albus

Folklore: There is a folk proverb: "The head falls on the jiaozi, the face falls on the second side, and the pancake lays eggs on the third side". From this day on, I entered the dog days. So it is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi's head first. People in Xuzhou eat mutton in ambush, which is called eating mutton in ambush. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period.

12, summer heat.

Ginger, lettuce, kiwi fruit.

Folklore: Guangdong proverb: Eat fairy grass in the midsummer of June, live like a fairy, and never get old. Fairy grass is "bean jelly grass", and people in Putian, Fujian want to eat lychee, mutton and rice grains for the summer. There is a traditional tonic method in central Hunan and northern Hunan, which is to eat chickens in summer. Southeast Hunan also has the custom of eating ginger in summer. "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't require a doctor to prescribe."

13, beginning of autumn.

Lemon, sesame.

Folklore: The main customs in beginning of autumn are: beginning of autumn Festival, autumn touch, autumn busy party, autumn fat paste and other popular days in beginning of autumn. People are weighed by hanging scales and compared with those in the long summer.

14, summer heat.

Jellyfish, tremella, lily.

Folklore: Before and after the summer vacation, there will be folk activities to celebrate the Central Plains, commonly known as "July 30" or "Central Plains Festival". People often gather around rivers and lakes to set off river lanterns in order to ferry drowning ghosts and other lonely ghosts in the water. There is a custom of brewing Bailu rice wine in the south. Bailu rice wine is made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

15, Millennium.

Start harvesting sorghum and early-maturing corn.

Walnut, fungus, honey.

16, autumnal equinox.

Tremella, sesame, walnut, glutinous rice

Folklore: The custom of cooking dumplings is to eat a kind of wild vegetable called "wild amaranth", which is also called "autumn Artemisia" in some places.

17, cold dew.

Beans, kelp, seaweed.

Folklore: So it includes the Double Ninth Festival, so there are climbing activities. At the same time, you should also eat flower cakes. Because "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, the pastry should be called "Chongyang Flower Cake", which means "step by step".

18, first frost.

Ginkgo biloba, chestnuts, peanuts.

Folklore: eat persimmons. As the saying goes, "When you eat persimmons in the first frost, your nose won't run." Shandong agricultural proverbs: summer sorghum, white deer valley, first frost radish.

19, beginning of winter.

Soymilk, eggs, walnuts, almonds.

Folklore: In ancient society, on this day, the emperor would lead hundreds of civil and military officials to the northern suburbs of Beijing to set up an altar for sacrifice. People will have the custom of eating jiaozi. There is a proverb that "beginning of winter fills the winter and fills the mouth" is the best metaphor.

20. Xiaoxue.

Beef, cabbage, chestnuts.

Folk custom: bacon; Eating Ciba (In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in southern China, which was originally used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying called "October, Ciba Lulu burned", which means offering sacrifices.

2 1, heavy snow.

Crucian carp, sea cucumber, walnut.

Folklore: there is a saying in northern Shandong that "the road is full of people only drinking red sticky porridge"; In old Nanjing, there is a saying that "light snow pickled vegetables, heavy snow pickled meat". Every household is busy pickling "salty goods" as soon as the solar term of heavy snow arrives.

22nd, the solstice of winter.

Kiwi, sugarcane, grapefruit.

Folklore: wonton noodles. In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing called "Winter Solstice Day Wonton Noodles Summer Solstice Day"; Eat dog meat and mutton; Eat jiaozi. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." Southerners pay attention to eating red beans and glutinous rice on this day.

23, slight cold.

Chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, jujube, longan.

Folk custom: Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice; Guangdong eats glutinous rice.

24. Great cold.

Chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, jujube, longan.

Delicious "Laba porridge"