What is the significance of the Grain in Ear solar term? What are the farming activities?

What is the significance of the Grain in Ear solar term? What are the farming activities?
When the Grain in Ear solar term arrives, the temperature will rise significantly and the precipitation in many places will gradually increase. So what are the things to pay attention to during Grain in Ear? Pomegranate Month is one of the nicknames of May, and it is named so because the pomegranate flowers are in full bloom in May. There is a poem circulating: "The pomegranate flowers in May are bright to the eyes, and the fruits can be seen on the branches from time to time." Follow Shuimo.com to learn more.

What is the significance of the Grain in Ear solar term?

1. Eat a light diet
In terms of diet, you should be careful not to eat too salty or too sweet. Your diet should be light. It is suitable to eat more foods that can dispel heat, replenish qi, promote salivation and quench thirst, eat more fruits and vegetables, and eat less spicy and heavy-tasting foods.
2. Drink more water
When the weather gets hot, the human body will sweat, resulting in a large loss of water and electrolytes, necessitating the need to replenish more water and electrolytes. Most of the water needed by the human body must be replenished by drinking water.
3. Get enough sleep
Summer is here, the days are longer and the sun rises earlier, so people get up early and go to bed late at night, which can easily lead to lack of sleep. Therefore, we should increase naps, and proper naps are more beneficial to our health.
4. Get plenty of sun
Get enough sunlight to adapt to the fullness of Yang energy, which is beneficial to the circulation of Qi and blood and invigorates the spirit. However, it should be noted that the temperature is still quite high during the Grain in Ear period, and you must not let the sun shine directly on you, otherwise you may suffer from heatstroke.

What are the farming activities?

First, we must harvest summer crops such as wheat, broad beans, and peas in the fields in a timely manner to ensure a bumper harvest.
Second, apply fertilizer heavily to corn in the first and middle ten days, and do a good job of rooting to prevent corn from falling over and controlling corn borer.
Third, spray the mid-season rice seedling fields with growth-promoting drugs and transplant them in the middle and late ten days of the month; control rice weevils for direct-seeded rice and broadcast rice, and control diseases and insect pests such as the striped stem borer and leaf blight in early-planted fields.
Fourth, cotton should be managed well during the bud stage by tilling, loosening the soil, weeding, and preventing and controlling pests such as blind bugs, cotton aphids, and red spiders. Organic fertilizer should be applied to ensure more cotton fruits. The drainage system of the cotton field should be repaired to prevent rain and waterlogging.
Fifth, rush to plant summer soybeans, peanuts, and spring soybeans in the first and middle ten days and apply flower and pod fertilizers. In spring, apply fertilizer to sweet potatoes, till the soil, weed, build up the soil and supplement the seedlings; and transplant summer sweet potatoes. Apply mint brake fertilizer.
Sixth, sow vegetables such as cowpea, amaranth, and Chinese cabbage; strengthen field management of eggplant, melon, and bean vegetables, prevent and control diseases and insect pests, and harvest and market and preserve seeds.
Seventh, strengthen the summer epidemic prevention of poultry and livestock, the breeding and management of adult fish, the summer felling of mulberry fields and the application of summer fertilizers, the maintenance of river and sea embankment projects and irrigation and drainage machinery, and pay attention to flood and drought prevention and other work.

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