What folk activities are there during the Grain Full solar term? What is the origin of the Grain Full solar term?
Introduction: Xiaoman is also one of the 24 solar terms, and there are many customs about Xiaoman. So what folk activities are there during the Xiaoman solar term? Let’s analyze the origin of the Xiaoman solar term! The fireworks of March have passed, and the most beautiful April has arrived. For more details about the 2019 lunar calendar for April, please visit Mr. Shui Mo's website for consultation!What folk activities are there during the Grain Full solar term?Grain Full Folk Customs: Worship the God of VehiclesGrain Full Festival falls in early summer, which is also the busiest season for farmers. In the old days, waterwheels for irrigation and water drainage were important events in rural areas, so during the Grain Full solar term, many places held folk activities to worship the waterwheel god. As the saying goes, "Three wheels move during Grain Full", which refers to the silk wheel, oil wheel and field wheel. Legend has it that the "God of Carts" is a white dragon. During the Grain Full period, farmers place fish, meat, incense and candles in front of the water-carrying wheels as offerings. The special thing is that there is a cup of white water among the offerings, which is poured into the fields during the sacrifice, with the intention of wishing for a prosperous water source. Grain Full Folk Customs: Grabbing Water "Grabbing water" is an old folk farming custom that is popular in Haining, Zhejiang. When this ceremony is held, the elderly deacon will gather all the households together, and at dawn on the determined date, they will light torches and eat wheat cakes, wheat bread and wheat balls on the base of the waterwheel. When the deacon uses drums and gongs as a signal, the crowd will respond with percussion instruments and step onto the waterwheels that have been installed in advance on the Xiaohan River. Dozens of waterwheels will move together to divert river water to irrigate the fields until the river dries up. Grain Full Folk Customs: Worship the Silkworm God According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, and during the farming period, people regarded silkworms as gifts from heaven. In order to pray for forgiveness from heaven and a good harvest from silkworm breeding, the Silkworm Prayer Festival is held in April every year when the silkworms are released. Therefore, there is no fixed date for the Silkworm Festival. It is held on the day when each family releases silkworms before or after the Grain Full Moon. Silkworm farmers would go to the "Silkworm Goddess Temple" and "Cicada God Temple" to offer fruits, fine wine, and sumptuous dishes and kneel down to worship. In particular, they would place "noodle cocoons" made of flour on a mountain of straw to pray for a good harvest of silkworm cocoons. Grain Full Folk Customs: Busy Harvesting In the provinces along the Yellow River, people are busy harvesting and threshing wheat in April of the lunar calendar. Autumn rice is being sown in the Pearl River Basin, while in the Northeast it is the time to plant cotton, wheat and soybeans. Sorghum has just grown, and it is necessary to weed and cut off the poor seedlings. The Grain Full solar term is the busy farming season. Grain Full Folk Customs: Circumambulating the Three Spirits "Rao Sanling" is popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places. It is held around the Grain Full solar term from April 23rd to 25th of the lunar calendar every year and is known as the carnival of the Bai people. Just as Duan Wei in the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Rao Sanling. Bamboo Branch Poems": "The gold coin drums and the Overlord Whip, two people pushing and banging their arms and turning. The best is the young girl singing in plain tunes, each of her voices reaching the sky of love." The festival lasts for three days, with different activities each day. It is a grand gathering of singing and dancing for the Bai people before the busy farming season, and also a prayer ceremony to pray for a good harvest. Grain Full Folk Customs: Selling New Silk When the silk is woven into threads during the Grain Full season, each family carries the threads back to the city and sells them to merchants who collect the silk. In Wu, the silk market usually starts in the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year and ends in the evening, which is called selling new silk. This is the case in most places in Jiangnan. Analysis of the origin of the Grain Full solar term!"Collected Explanations of the 72 Lunar Calendars" states: "In the middle of April, things are small and full."There are two interpretations of “满” in Xiaoman. The first is to describe the fullness of crops, the second is to describe the abundance or scarcity of rain. At this time, the grains of summer crops such as wheat in the northern part of the country have begun to become full, but are not yet mature, which is approximately the late milky stage, so it is called Grain Full. Agricultural proverbs in the southern region give Grain Full a new meaning: "If Grain Full is not full, the field ridges will dry up"; "If Grain Full is not full, there will be no need to worry about it." The word "full" is used to describe the abundance or scarcity of rainwater, pointing out that if the fields are not filled with water during Grain Full, the field ridges may dry up and crack, and rice may not be planted even during Grain in Ear. On the day of Grain Full, there will generally be a lot of rainfall and heavy rainfall in southern China. If the cold air from the north can penetrate into the southern regions of my country at this time and the warm and humid air flow in the south is also strong, it will easily cause heavy rain or extremely heavy rain in southern China. Therefore, the late period of the Grain Full solar term is often a tense period for flood prevention in these areas. For the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, if there is less rainfall during this period, it may be that the subtropical high pressure over the Pacific Ocean is weaker and located to the south, which means that when the plum rain season comes, there may be less precipitation. If there is dissatisfaction, it must be a year of drought and little rain. The eight-character destiny is predetermined for each person after birth. Knowing your fortune in advance can make your future life smoother. To calculate your fortune for the next ten years, please click on the [Premium Calculation] below for advance predictions. 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