Rain and grain in ear, all the fields are transplanted.
Grain in Ear is the ninth solar term of the 24 solar terms and the third solar term of summer. Grain in Ear means "grain crops with awn can be planted", and the folk also call it "busy planting". At this time of year, rice is planted in the south and wheat is harvested in the north. The arrival of grain in Ear heralds the busy farm life of farmers.
Grain in ear is divided into three hou: the first hou mantis; Two waiting peng began to sing; In the third hou, one\'s tongue is silent. Grain in Ear marks the official beginning of midsummer.
Grain in ear custom
Boiled plum
Grain in Ear season is also the season of plum maturity, fresh plum taste mostly sour, difficult to directly into the mouth, need to be processed before eating. The picked plums are cleaned first, and then cooked with water until the sour taste is removed, this process is boiled plum. Green plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, which has the nutritional and health care effect of enhancing human immunity.
Send Flowers
Grain in Ear season is already in May, flowers began to wither, scattered, ancient folk in grain in ear day held sacrificial flower God ceremony, candied flower God back, while expressing gratitude to the flower God, looking forward to meet again next year.
An Miao
In each grain in ear season, after planting rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in the autumn, all places will hold a miao sacrifice. Every household with the new wheat noodles evaporation package, the face into the shape of grains and six livestock, fruits and vegetables, and then with vegetable juice color, as a sacrificial offering, pray for grain harvest, villagers peace.
Grain in Ear health
Prevent summer heat and nourish the heart
Grain in Ear season, it is the summer constantly gathering, Yang is flourishing season, this time to pay more attention to body maintenance, especially to nourish the heart. Summer is the main fire, the interior should be in the heart. The hot climate will affect the function of the heart, so that the blood flow in the body is accelerated, and the load of the heart is correspondingly larger. Therefore, summer to calm down, keep emotional ease. Avoid great joy and sorrow, lest you hurt your heart.
Strengthening stomach and invigorating spleen
Grain in Ear season, the temperature rises, the weather is stuffy, prone to appetite loss, abdominal pain and diarrhea and other symptoms, therefore, grain in ear is an important season to replenish the spleen. It is recommended to massage Taibai point for 3-5 minutes every day, and feel slightly distention pain, which has a certain therapeutic effect on stomach pain, bloating, vomiting and other symptoms related to the spleen. Eat more "melon" food, such as bitter melon, watermelon, winter melon, etc., has the effect of clearing heat and reducing summer heat, nourishing blood and Qi, tonifying kidney and spleen, which can alleviate the sultry irritability in summer, and is beneficial to the enhancement of spleen and stomach function.
Take a bath to relieve summer heat
After grain in ear, the weather is hot and people are easy to sweat, so clothes should be washed and changed frequently. In order to avoid heat stroke, it is necessary to take a bath often after grain in ear, so that "Yang heat" is easy to vent. However, it should be noted that do not take a bath immediately when sweating, and take a bath immediately when sweating is easy to invade the human body, resulting in disease. In addition, if you can often medicated bath to health effect is better, more can achieve the purpose of fitness disease prevention.