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...from the ground in April, a month that, in terms of farm yield, is otherwise an extension of winter. For food snobs, therefore, ramps are overcelebrated and overly scrutinized, like the first ballgame played in April, even with 161 more games ahead." (See how gourmet food is making its way to your street corner...
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...southwestern China's Yunnan province, ring in their New Year in mid-April by sprinkling each other with cold water. April is the driest month for subtropical regions like Yunnan, which depend on the coming of seasonal rains for their fertility. Historically, water-splashing has been a symbolic way of beseeching the divine to bring an end to scarcity and hasten a period of abundance. Never have the people of South China needed that abundance more than now, during the worst drought the area has seen in nearly a century...
...full." Zheng Peng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body, told the official government news agency Xinhua that this year people ought to splash water in a symbolic manner, as was done "in the traditional way," when water-splashing was limited to the last day of the festival. In fact, the Dai do not refer to the New Year's holiday as the "water-splashing festival"; that moniker was introduced by foreigners...
...describe water-splashing as a means of washing away sin on the occasion of the New Year, when deities would visit the land of the living. Since at this time the gods are so close, it is also an opportune moment to ask for precipitation; splashing therefore becomes a way of praying for plenty. By sprinkling water, the Dai, like the Indians before them, should be attempting to entice rainfall. It is a most basic appeal, but one that is easily forgotten in the disorder of the holiday. Perhaps not this year, though. "When it rains during the New Year...