Fighting eggs, weighing people and chasing spring: How much do you know about the custom of long summer?
Today is May 5th, Changxia!
Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms.
24 solar terms:
Long summer, April festival. Make a word to understand spring.
Summer, holidays. At this time, everything is fake and big.
In astronomy,
Chang Xia said that he was about to bid farewell to spring.
This is the beginning of summer.
"Long summer custom on May 5"
Long summer? what's up Summer? what's up Big? The meaning of,
This means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright.
In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs and habits of long summer.
Ying Xia
On this day in the long summer,
The ancient emperor would lead hundreds of officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome summer.
Hold a summer welcoming ceremony.
Monarchs and ministers wear scarlet dresses and scarlet jade pendants.
Even the flags of horses and cars should be bright red,
Express prayers and best wishes for a bumper harvest.
In court? Open the ice in summer and give it to the minister of civil and military affairs? .
Ice was stored last winter and given to officials by the emperor.
Hunchun
When I spent a long summer by the Yangtze River,
People lament the departure of spring,
So prepare wine and food to enjoy,
It means to give someone away, for spring.
Wu Outing's poem "Long Summer" said:
There is no choice but to go in spring, and the cherry buds will return in spring.
In summer, there is a custom of boiling tender broad beans in Jiangnan water town.
Have a taste of something in season/new.
In summer, are there some places? Taste new ones? Activities.
Like Suzhou? See Sanxin in the long summer? Proverbs
Three new ones are cherry, plum and wheat, which are used for ancestor worship.
In Changshu, tasting new food is more abundant.
what's up Nine meats and thirteen vegetarian dishes? Said.
Battle egg
In summer, there is the custom of breaking eggs.
The proverb says:
There is an egg on the chest in long summer, and the child is not in summer.
Hey? Summer is a common anorexia and abdominal distension in summer.
Weakness and emaciation make children particularly vulnerable to illness in summer.
Parents pray for their children to be disease-free and disaster-free by breaking eggs.
On this day in the long summer,
Every household can boil eggs,
Put it in a net bag and hang it around the child's neck.
The children played egg-beating games in groups of three or five.
An egg has two heads, the pointed one is the head and the round one is the tail.
When you beat eggs, the head of the egg hits the head of the egg and the tail of the egg hits the tail of the egg.
Fight one by one, and the loser gives up.
Finally, the high and low are separated.
Weigh sb.
There is also a custom of weighing people in the long summer.
People hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or platform.
A stool is hung on the scale hook.
Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and weigh people.
When weighing flowers, the caller said auspicious words.
Call the old man and say? Weight 87 live to 9 1? .
"Long summer food custom on May 5th"
China has different styles and customs.
When I was in the long summer, the eating customs were different everywhere.
After a long summer, it is a hot summer.
People eat some food in the long summer,
Often with the desire to pray for peace.
Long summer rice
In the past,
Red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans, mung beans, etc.
Five-color beans mixed with white japonica rice? Five-color rice? ,
Later it evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese bean meat.
The dish is amaranth yellow croaker soup.
Weigh and eat? Long summer rice? Also known as? Five-color rice? .
Fujian Mindong: Light Cake
People in eastern Fujian eat light cakes in summer.
A light cake is made of flour and a little salt.
Zhouning, Fuan and other places in eastern Fujian will
Light cakes are soaked in water and made into dishes.
Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half.
Stir-fried bean sprouts, leeks,
Eat meat, waste vegetables, etc.
Fujian Minnan: Shrimp Noodles
Minnan eats shrimp noodles in summer,
Just buy shrimp noodles and cook them.
Shrimp turns red when cooked, indicating good luck.
Shrimp is homophonic with summer, which is a wish for summer.
Xiangdong: Qijia porridge
Qijiazhou is a farmer's neighbor.
Give beans, rice and brown sugar to each other.
Cook a pot of porridge, what's it called? Seven porridge? ,
It is said that after eating this porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious.
Go to Xia Geng and Summer Broadcasting wholeheartedly.
Ningbo: foot bone bamboo shoots
Foot bone bamboo shoots are cooked with black bamboo shoots.
Each piece is three or four inches long and has not been cut.
When eating, you should pick two bamboo shoots with the same thickness and eat them all at once.
Say you can eat? Healthy feet and bones? (in good health).
Then eat soft food (Junta food),
Said it wouldn't get prickly heat in summer,
The skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables.
Changsha, Hunan: Long Summer Soup
People in Changsha, Hunan eat glutinous rice flour in summer.
What's the name of the soup pill made of rat grass? Long summer soup? ,
Folk proverb cloud? After eating the long summer soup, the stone was trampled into a pit? ,
Eating balls in the long summer (sound is? Tuo? ), cross the river with one foot? ,
Metaphor has unparalleled meaning and is as light as a swallow.
Shengzhou: eating eggs depends on the heart
People in Shengzhou eat eggs in summer, relying on their hearts and minds.
Eat bamboo shoots on your legs, peas in your eyes, and weigh yourself.
Its purpose is to pray for the body, heart, legs, etc.
The important part is health and soundness to prevent diseases,
The desire to spend the hot summer smoothly.
How much do you know about the custom of long summer?
Hunchun
Ancient elegance
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the beautiful spring scenery has passed, and people are inevitably sad. Therefore, preparing wine and vegetables for pleasure is like giving someone away, which is called Hunchun.
tea
pray for peace
Jiangxi has the custom of drinking tea in the long summer, saying that if you don't drink tea in the long summer, you will suffer all summer.
Eat? Long summer _?
Send spring to welcome summer, celebrate spring harvest
Do you eat in the northeast of Jiangxi? Long summer _? Just like Tomb-Sweeping Day eats Ai, Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival and osmanthus wine on Double Ninth Festival, our habits are all passed down from the older generation. To beg? Is the spring harvest rich? Years of success.
Zhang Sam sun
Send Wuxi folk customs
Wuxi folks have always had the custom of tasting three delicacies in the long summer. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, wheat, broad bean, amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout); Three fresh trees are cherry, loquat and apricot (one is plum, apricot and cherry, and the other is plum, cherry and toon head); The three kinds of fresh water are marine fish, puffer fish and shad (shad, shad and yellow croaker, as well as shad, whitebait and mackerel). Among them, tasting fresh land is the most common.
Eat black rice
Hangzhou customs
The long summer in Hangzhou eclipses black rice and black rice cakes. It is said that it can dispel wind and detoxify, prevent heatstroke and prevent black mosquito bites.
Food? Wild summer rice?
Overcome victory and avoid disaster.
Hangzhou people grow summer grain again? Wild summer rice? Custom. Children and teenagers flocked to beg rice and meat from their neighbors. Leave broad beans and bamboo shoots on the ground for mining, and then go to the wild to build a pot stove with stones and burn it. Is this called eating? Wild summer rice? Or? Long summer rice? . This custom compares itself to a beggar, thinking that if you are tired of winning, you can avoid disaster.
Weigh sb.
Dissemination custom
There is a custom of weighing people after lunch in the long summer. People hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or platform, and a stool is hung on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and weigh people. When weighing flowers, the caller said auspicious words.
Eat eggs
Shanghai customs
In the summer custom in Shanghai, eggs are always eaten in summer, because this is the peak season, and children always hang an egg with a red net around their necks.
Chi qi Jia Zhou
Pray for harmony in the neighborhood
Long summer, rural areas in eastern Zhejiang? Seven porridge? ,? Seven porridge? It's a collection of rice from the neighbor's house, with all kinds of beans and sugar, and it's boiled into a big pot of porridge for everyone to share. It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious, and I am bent on going to Xia Geng for summer sowing.
Early summer