The customs of the Mangdiao festival include: sending the God of Flowers, planting seedlings, fighting mud battles, cooking plums, and eating Junta vegetables.
1, send the flower god
The flower god is welcomed at the Flower Morning Festival on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. As Mangsuo is approaching the end of May, flowers are beginning to wither and fall, and many people hold ceremonies to honor the God of Flowers on Mangsuo Day to send the God of Flowers back to its place, while expressing gratitude to the God of Flowers and looking forward to seeing each other again in the coming year.
This custom no longer exists today, but it can be seen from the famous novelist Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions in the twenty-seventh episode: "[In the Grand View Garden] the girls, or with petals and willow branches woven into a sedan chair, or with damask and brocade gauze folded into a thousand banners, all tied with colored threads.
Every tree and every flower is tied with these things. Banner is a flag with yak tail on the top of the flagpole, Jing and Banner are similar, but the difference is that it is decorated by colorful folding feathers, and the shape of the block is umbrella-like. This can be seen in the lively scene of the big family Mangyong Festival for the flower god going away.
2, Anmiao
Anmiao Department of the South Anhui agricultural customary activities, began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every year, after planting rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in the fall, all over the Anmiao ritual activities. Families use new wheat flour evaporation package, the surface kneaded into the shape of grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed with vegetable juice, as a sacrificial offering, praying for a bumper harvest, the villagers peace.
3, playing mud battle
Young men and women of the Dong ethnic group in southeastern Guizhou, every year before and after the mango to organize a mud battle festival. On that day, the newlyweds accompanied by good young men and women, collective rice-planting, rice-planting side of the fight, each other throw mud. At the end of the event, the results of the battle are checked, and the one with the most mud on his or her body is the most popular person.
4, boiled plum
In the south, every year in May and June is the plum ripe season, the Three Kingdoms, there is "plum boiled wine heroes" allusion.
5, eat Jun Tap Choi
In the Ningbo area, the custom of eating Jun Tap Choi in the Mansion season. Jun Tap is a seasonal vegetable in the southern region before and after the Mangdae Festival. Local people believe that junta cabbage has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, and that you won't get prickly heat after eating junta cabbage in summer.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mango Seeds