What can we do on Grain Rain Day in 2022? What are the customs and traditions on Grain Rain Day?

What can we do on Grain Rain Day in 2022? What are the customs and traditions on Grain Rain Day?
Grain Rain is the last solar term in spring, marking the transition between spring and summer. What can we do on Grain Rain Day in 2022? The lunar calendar is different every day, and the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness of the day will also change with the lunar calendar. Click on the special topic of March of the Lunar Calendar 2022 on Shuimoxiansheng.com to check out the lunar calendar content of March of the Lunar Calendar 2022.

What can we do on Grain Rain Day in 2022?

Grain Rain 2022 is on the lunar calendar: March 20, 2022; the Gregorian calendar: April 20, 2022, Wednesday, the Rooster is in conflict with the West. [What is suitable for today's lunar calendar] Sign contracts, move into new homes, cut clothes, offer sacrifices, break ground, install gates, build foundations, mend walls, sail, open graves, buy land, build embankments, start work and mount horses. [What is unsuitable for today's lunar calendar] Get married, travel, have banquets, pick up cars and move, trade, break ground, install beds, take up posts, bury, propose marriage, get engaged, start work, start business, build houses, decorate, do business, dig canals, raise beams and erect pillars, dig wells, hunt, open warehouses, fight lawsuits, have caesarean sections, ship goods, and income and outflow of property. Judging from the [what is suitable for today's lunar calendar] on Grain Rain 2022, the main things suitable for this day are: signing contracts, offering sacrifices to ancestors, installing gates, building foundations, sailing , etc.

What are the customs and traditions on Grain Rain Day?

1. Eat spring
There is a custom of eating spring food during Grain Rain, that is, eating Chinese toon. Toona sinensis has a mellow, refreshing flavor and high nutritional value. There is also a saying that "Toona sinensis is as tender as silk before the rain."
2. Enjoy Peonies
The period around Grain Rain is also an important time for peonies to bloom, so peonies are also called "Grain Rain flowers." “Watching peonies during the three days of Guyu” has become an important leisure activity for people.
3. Walking during Guyu
In ancient times, there was a custom of "walking on the Grain Rain" on the day of Grain Rain. On this day, young women go from village to village to visit relatives, and some go for a walk in the wild and then come back. Walking during Guyu implies integrating with nature and strengthening the body.
4. Grain Rain Tea
There is a custom of picking tea in the south during Guyu. Guyu tea, also known as pre-rain tea, is spring tea picked during the Guyu season, also known as second spring tea. It is said that drinking tea on the day of Grain Rain can clear internal heat, ward off evil spirits, and improve eyesight. 5. Sacrifice to Cangjie
Offering sacrifices to the Yellow Emperor on Qingming Festival and to Cangjie on Grain Rain Festival are folk traditions that have been passed down for thousands of years since the Han Dynasty.
According to the "Huainanzi", Emperor Huangdi issued an edict in late spring and early summer, announcing that Cangjie had successfully created characters, and a millet rain fell that day. After Cangjie died, people buried him in his hometown, the north of Shiguan Town, Baishui County. A couplet was engraved on the door of his tomb: "The rain of millet in those days moved the Emperor of Heaven, and the same writing will forever be paired with Qiaoling." Every year during the Grain Rain, the "Cangjie Temple Fair" is held as scheduled in Baishui County, Shaanxi.
6. The Festival of Journey
Grain Rain Festival is also known as "Zhuangxing Festival" in some places. It is a festival for fishermen to go out to sea to fish.
During the Grain Rain season, the sea water warms up and fish migrate to shallow waters, making it a good day to go fishing. In order to go out to sea safely and return with a full load, fishermen hold a sea sacrifice on the day of Grain Rain, praying for the blessing of the sea god. Therefore, Grain Rain Festival is also called the "Bringing Festival" for fishermen to go out to sea to fish. In the old days, every village by the sea had a temple of the sea god or the goddess. When the time for sacrifice came, the fishermen would carry offerings to the front of the temple for sacrifice. Some would carry the offerings to the seaside, beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers, and sacrifice facing the sea. The scene was very grand.
7. Grain Rain Post
During the Grain Rain season, people stick Grain Rain stickers to avoid killing the five poisonous creatures. After Grain Rain, the temperature rises and pests and diseases enter a high-multiplication period. In order to reduce the damage caused by pests and diseases to crops and people, farmers go into the fields to kill insects while posting Grain Rain stickers and praying for good luck and to drive away evil. This custom is very popular in Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi. The Annals of Xiajin County recorded in the sixth year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty: "On Grain Rain, people write incantations with cinnabar to ward off scorpions." The folk custom of "warding off scorpions" reflects people's desire to drive away pests and to have a good harvest and peace.

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