What are the taboos during the Grain in Ear solar term?

What are the taboos during the Grain in Ear solar term?
The Grain in Ear solar term begins when the sun reaches 75° of the ecliptic longitude. As the ninth solar term among the 24 solar terms, is there any taboo? If you want to know more about the days in April of the lunar calendar in 2018, please pay attention to our fortune teller website!

Taboos of Grain in Ear Solar Term

The Dragon Boat Festival is included in the Grain in Ear solar term, so broadly speaking, different places have different taboos: In Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, there is a custom of avoiding the Dragon Boat Festival, which means that people are forbidden to go out all day on the Dragon Boat Festival. People in Hechuan, Sichuan also stay indoors at noon. During the Grain in Ear period, the five plagues descend upon the world and people should close their doors to avoid them. In some areas of Taiwan, people have to cut their hair on Grain in Ear Day. Otherwise, the rice dumplings will be taken away by ghosts. Women are not allowed to sleep with their hair untied. Otherwise you will be captured by the ghost. There are also some things related to climate, like some places avoid north winds because they believe that if the north wind blows, the summer will be dry. In some places, people taboo against thunder, believing that if there is no thunder during the Grain in Ear season, there will not be a good harvest that year.

What are the customs of Mangzhong in different places?

1. Sending off the Flower God: People believe that after the Grain in Ear day, all flowers begin to wither and the Flower God abdicates. Therefore, folks often hold a ceremony to worship the Flower God on the Grain in Ear day to send the Flower God back to his position, express gratitude to the Flower God, and look forward to meeting him again next year. 2. Marrying a tree: In Yanshan, Hebei, there is a custom of "marrying a tree" on the day of "busyness". It means using a knife to scratch the date tree a few times, which means it will bear more fruits. 3. An Miao: This custom is from Jixi, Anhui Province. People ring gongs, burn paper and insert small red flags at the corners of fields. The villages around Fuling, Beicun, Hujia and Chutou invite monks to hold a vegetarian feast on the first "Dragon and Tiger Day" after Grain in Ear. Then they hold up flags and beat drums, and carry the Grand Marshal around the fields to pray for good weather and a good harvest. This is called "An Miao". 4. Mud Fight: This is a custom of some ethnic minorities. Every year around the Grain in Ear season, which is the time when rice seedlings are planted, they hold a "mud fight" festival where young men and women have fun and have fun. 5. Boiled plums: The Grain in Ear season happens to be the season when plums mature in the south. However, most fresh plums taste sour and astringent, making them difficult to eat directly. They need to be processed before they can be eaten. This processing process is called boiled plums.

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