The custom and diet of rain

In rainy season, China people's traditional eating habit is to drink jujube porridge.

Rain is the second of the 24 solar terms, which lasts about 19 in February of the solar calendar every year, when the longitude of the sun reaches 330. At this time, the temperature rises, the snow melts and the precipitation increases, hence the name rain.

In rice-growing areas in southern China, it is a popular custom to occupy the color of rice, that is, to predict the color of rice this year by frying glutinous rice flowers. Sufficient color means high yield, and insufficient color means the lowest yield.

The color depends on the number of blooming glutinous rice flowers. The more glistening glutinous rice bursts out. The better the rice harvest this year; The less rice flowers burst out, it means that the rice harvest is not good this year and the rice price will be expensive.

Rain and solar terms, people will meet their longevity:

After the rain festival, the son-in-law is not allowed to be idle, and she has to send a festival to her parents-in-law. Festival gifts are usually two rattan chairs wrapped in a 4-meter-long red ribbon, which is called "Shoushou", meaning to wish parents-in-law a long life.

Another typical holiday gift is canned meat for men, which is for parents-in-law. This is to express gratitude and respect to the parents-in-law who have worked so hard to raise their daughters. If it is wedding date, the newly-married son-in-law, her parents-in-law will also give her an umbrella in return, which is intended to bless her son-in-law to go out smoothly and help him keep out the wind and rain, and also to wish her a safe life.