Monday, June 05, 2006


Today is the 11th day in the 5th month of the chinese calendar, or 芒种. That means the rice grains have ripened, ready for the first harvest. Weather will definitely hotter from now on, and the farmers should plant their remaining rice seedlings as soon as possible.

2 Comments:

At 10:14 am, Blogger Vegie said...

If rice grains ripened only now after the Dumpling fesitval, where did the people get the rice needed to make the dumplings ? They using stock from last year eh ?

 
At 9:15 pm, Blogger cat_aunty said...

Erm, I also don't know. Guess so kua. I know you can get new Japanese rice soon, in June.

 

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