When is Xiaoman in 2018? What are the customs of Xiaoman?

When is Xiaoman in 2018? What are the customs of Xiaoman?
As one of the 24 solar terms, Xiaoman heralds the arrival of summer and has always held an important place in people's hearts. So what are the customs of Xiaoman? Let’s take a look together! By April, everything is lush and green. The Fortune Teller website takes you to experience every day of the fourth lunar month of 2018. Grain Full is one of the 24 solar terms and the second solar term in summer. Grain Full Moon occurs when the sun reaches 60° of the ecliptic longitude between May 20 and 22 every year.
The Grain Full Moon in 2018 falls on the seventh day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar in 2018 (lunar calendar), which corresponds to Monday, May 21, 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. It is the first solar term in the fourth month of the lunar calendar in 2018. Offering sacrifices to the God of Vehicles is an ancient Grain Full custom in some rural areas. In the relevant legend, the second car god is a white dragon. During the Grain Full season, people put fish, meat, incense and candles on the waterwheel for worship. The most interesting thing is that there is a cup of white water in the sacrifice, which is poured into the field during the worship, meaning to wish for the water to be prosperous.
It is said that Grain Full is the birthday of the Silkworm God, so there is a Silkworm Praying Festival during the Grain Full solar term in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. my country's farming culture is typified by "men farming and women weaving". The raw material for women's weaving is mainly cotton in the north and silkworm in the south. Silk is obtained by raising silkworms and spinning cocoons, so sericulture is extremely prosperous in rural areas in southern my country, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.
Silkworms are pampered "pets" and are difficult to raise. The weather, humidity, the coldness, ripeness, dryness or wetness of mulberry leaves all affect the survival of silkworms. Because silkworms are difficult to raise, they were considered "gifts from heaven" in ancient times. In order to pray for mercy from heaven and a good harvest from silkworms, people hold the Silkworm Prayer Festival in April when the silkworms are released.
The provinces in the Yellow River Basin are busy with 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.

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