What are the customs and practices during Grain in Ear Festival? What are the characteristics of the Grain in Ear solar term?

What are the customs and practices during Grain in Ear Festival? What are the characteristics of the Grain in Ear solar term?
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What are the customs and practices during Grain in Ear Festival?

1. Boil plums
In the south, May and June every year are the season when plums ripen. During the Three Kingdoms period, there was an allusion of "discussing heroes over green plum wine". Green plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals. It has unique nutritional and health functions such as purifying blood, regulating the intestines, lowering blood lipids, eliminating fatigue, beautifying, regulating acid-base balance, and enhancing human immunity.
2. Anmiao
Grain in Ear and Seedlings Planting is a traditional agricultural activity in southern Anhui that began in the early Ming Dynasty. After planting rice in Grain in Ear, various places hold seedling-protecting sacrificial activities to pray for a good harvest in the autumn. Every household uses new wheat flour to make steamed buns, which they then shape into shapes of grains, livestock, fruits, and vegetables, then dye with vegetable juice and use as sacrificial offerings.
3. Send the Flower God
Grain in Ear is approaching May, when all flowers begin to wither and fall. People often hold ceremonies to worship the flower god on this day to send him off and express their gratitude to him, hoping to meet him again next year. However, this custom is rarely seen nowadays, and only some areas have resumed the celebrations.
4. Mud fight
In the southeastern part of Guizhou, young Dong men and women hold a mud fight festival around the Grain in Ear season every year. On the day of Grain in Ear, newlyweds, accompanied by their good friends, young men and women, plant rice together, playing and throwing mud at each other. At the end of the activity, the results are checked and the person with the most mud on his body is the most popular.

What are the characteristics of the Grain in Ear solar term?

The characteristics of the Grain in Ear solar term are abundant rainfall and significantly increased temperature.
1. Plenty of rainfall
The Huanghuai Plain enters the rainy season during the Grain in Ear period; the southeastern monsoon rain belt in South China is stable, and it is the time of the year with the highest precipitation; the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River enter the plum rain season, with many rainy days, heavy rainfall, little sunshine, and sometimes accompanied by low temperatures; the southwest region enters the rainy season of the year, and hail weather begins to increase in the plateau areas in the western part of the southwest.
2. Temperature rises significantly
Except for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and some areas in the northernmost part of Heilongjiang Province which have not really entered summer, people in most areas can experience the summer heat during Grain in Ear.
After Grain in Ear, there is a possibility of high temperatures above 35°C in both the south and the north. High temperatures over 40°C may occur in the Huanghuai region and the eastern part of the Northwest region, but generally not sustained high temperatures; the average temperature in South China is around 28°C. If it is before a thunderstorm, the air humidity is high and the weather will become stuffy and hot.

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