Mango is the ninth solar term in a year. Its literal meaning is "the wheat with awns can be harvested quickly, and the rice with awns can be planted", which is a typical solar term reflecting agricultural cultivation.

After the awning, the northern plain of Huanghuai began to enter the rainy season. At this time, if there is strong wind, hail or rainy weather that lasts for many days, farmers will not be able to harvest wheat in time and the losses will be very serious.

When the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River enter the rainy season, the sunshine hours decrease, the rainfall increases, and there are occasional low temperatures. South China has entered the season with the most precipitation in a year. Southwest China also entered the rainy season around the awning season, and the hail weather on the plateau gradually increased.

In most parts of China, awning is one of the solar terms in busy farming. Summer harvest crops such as winter wheat are ripe and waiting for harvest; Crops such as cotton planted in spring enter the peak growth period and need a lot of water and fertilizer; Summer corn, summer soybean and other crops also need sowing. So "Mang Seed" is also called "Busy Seed".

At this time, the two ends of the Yangtze River basin are busy transplanting rice and cutting wheat, while the North China region is busy harvesting wheat and planting beans at noon, and the whole country is busy with agriculture.

Besides farming, there are many interesting customs among the people.

1, Anmiao

Anmiao is a kind of farming folk activity in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice. Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

Step 2 send flowers to god

On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower festival welcomes the flower god. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. This custom no longer exists today, but it was mentioned by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin in A Dream of Red Mansions.

Step 3 cook plums

In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plum Boils Wine as a Hero" in the Three Kingdoms. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums.

Step 4 fight in mud

Young Dong men and women in southeastern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting hemp. On the same day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, played with each other while planting rice seedlings and threw mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

Step 5 marry a tree

The awn seed is a busy farming season, and Shanxi Ronghe began to harvest wheat and barley, which the locals call "busy farming". There is a proverb that says: "Mai Huang is busy with farming, and the woman builds the house." Therefore, in this solar term, women also have to go down to the fields to help them spend their "busy farming". In Yanshan, Hebei, there is a custom of "marrying a tree" on "busy" days. Is to draw a few strokes on the jujube tree with a knife, indicating that more fruits can be produced.