Folk activities of rain and solar terms

The folk activities of the Rain Festival include: going back to my parents' home, bumping into worshippers, taking beige, pulling insurance, and sending rain after my birthday.

1, back to Niangniang House

In the western Sichuan region of China, every year in the rainy season, a monk's daughter will go home with gifts to visit her parents. Women who already have children must also bring canned meat or chairs when they return home, thanking their parents for their kindness. For women who have never given birth, their mothers will sew a pair of red trousers for themselves, which is said to help them get pregnant.

2. Click and send

Rain Festival is an imaginative and human solar term among the people in western Sichuan. On this day, some women will wait by the roadside with their children, asking their children to kowtow to the first person who passes by them and become their adopted sons or daughters. This is called bumping into worship.

3, rice color accounting

The color of rice is to predict the rice harvest in that year by frying glutinous rice flowers. The more glutinous rice bursts, the better the harvest this year. On the contrary, the less glutinous rice bursts, the worse this year's harvest, and the greater the possibility of rice prices rising.

4. Spicy baby

Baobao is Sichuan dialect, which in michel platini means to wish children grow up and find a good person to be godmother. In the old society, people were superstitious. In order to make children grow up healthily, they will find a michel platini for their children. However, with the development of society, this custom gradually disappeared.

5. Meet life

During the rainy season, people will live and celebrate the rainy season, and the son-in-law will not be idle, and will also send festivals to her parents-in-law. Holiday gifts are usually two rattan chairs with a 4-meter-long red ribbon wrapped around them, which means wishing your parents-in-law a long life. Another typical holiday gift is canned meat for men, which is for parents-in-law.

Step 6 send rain water

In the Dongshan Hakka Rain Festival in Chengdu, Sichuan, there is a folk custom that daughters send festivals to their parents, or sons-in-law send festivals to their parents-in-law. The gift given by the son-in-law is usually a one-foot-two-foot-long red cotton belt, called Shoushou, to pray for the parents-in-law to get along for a hundred years. The daughter stewed pig's trotters and chicken soup, then sealed the jar with red paper and red rope, and the son-in-law sent it to her parents-in-law.