Unofficial observance
Grain in Ear
Dates specified for each year
A busy farming solar term for harvesting barley and planting rice.
How did it begin?
The name refers to a suitable time for sowing awned grains such as rice and barley. Traditional farming regarded it as a busy period when rice planting and barley harvesting overlapped.
Source · 망종 — 한국민족문화대백과사전 ↗ (new window)
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