Long summer customs

Welcome summer, eat long summer rice, eat eggs in long summer, hang eggs, beat eggs, weigh yourself, avoid sitting on the threshold, eat black bamboo shoots, drink porridge, try new things, cook summer, eat pasta and drink tea.

I. Introduction to Long Summer:

Long summer is the seventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer. The festival is held on May 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast, and the longitude of the sun reaches 45. Almanac: "Dou refers to the southeast, Wei is the long summer, and everything has grown up since then, so it is named long summer." After the long summer, the sunshine increased, gradually warming, and thunderstorms increased. Long summer is an important solar term, marking the peak season for the growth of all things. In the long summer, everything is thriving.

Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of summer, so it is also called "the end of spring". Born in spring, grown in summer, harvested in autumn and stored in winter. Because China has a vast territory and a large span from north to south, natural rhythms vary from place to place. In the long summer season, only the area south of Fuzhou-Nanling line in China presents the summer scene of "dark green trees, long summer, balcony reflection into the pond"; And parts of the northeast and northwest just have the breath of spring at this time.

Second, the long summer custom:

1, welcome summer

In agricultural proverbs, there is a saying that "see summer in the long summer", which means that the crops to be harvested in summer have entered the late growth stage, and the overall situation has been set, so the harvest can be seen in the long summer.

In ancient times, China, as an agricultural society, attached great importance to the solar terms in the long summer. In the long summer, every day the monarch and ministers put on a scarlet dress decorated with Yu Pei, a horse and a car flag. Under the leadership of the emperor, they will go down to the southern suburbs of Beijing to hold a summer welcoming ceremony to express their prayers and expectations for a bumper harvest. After the ceremony, many officials will be appointed to rush to various places to encourage farmers to pay close attention to farming and exchange their efforts and labor for a bumper harvest year, so that people can also eat and wear warm clothes.

In the Ming Dynasty, in the long summer, the emperor would also send a spiritual officer in charge of ice policy to dig out the ice stored last winter from the cellar and divide the large ice into small pieces, then the emperor would distribute it to officials, and the people would drink cold drinks to cool down.

Step 2 eat long summer rice

Every long summer, every household in some areas will cook a pot of "long summer rice", which is regarded as the eating custom of long summer. Traditional long summer rice will choose red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans and mung beans. These five colors of beans and rice are mixed together and steamed in a pot for cooked food. Long summer rice is also called "five-color rice". More and more people will use bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, carrots, bacon or sausages instead of four-color beans to make long summer rice, which is nutritious, salty and delicious.

In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, people will cook a pot of black rice in the long summer. Black rice is steamed by soaking glutinous rice in soup cooked with black leaves. Steamed black rice is shiny and fragrant, and can be eaten with white sugar or pickles. The old man said that after eating black rice all summer, you don't have to worry about being bitten by mosquitoes, but you can also bless your family.

3. Eat eggs, hang eggs and beat eggs in the long summer.

Long summer not only eats eggs, but also hangs eggs. Hanging eggs are bags made of colorful woven bags or wool. You put boiled eggs in it and hang them on your chest. Nowadays, there are more and more styles of hanging bags, which are generally available on the market or online. It is said that Nu Wa Niangniang told the people that cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs are hung on children's chests every summer to avoid mummification.

? "Egglaying" is an activity derived from it. On this long summer day, children are hung with eggs. When children get together, they will play the game of beating eggs. Their eggs will collide with other children's eggs, and the side whose eggshell is not broken will win.

Step 4 weigh yourself

Chang Xia said that the custom of weighing came from the Three Kingdoms period. It is said that after Chang Xia weighed himself this day, he was not afraid of the heat in summer and made people lose weight day by day. Adults will prepare a large wooden scale in advance and choose a laundry basket or stool from the hook. Old people and children will sit on stools or stand in laundry baskets, record their weight on the weighing scale, and then weigh it again at the end of summer for comparison. Weight gain is called "gaining weight" and weight loss is called "reducing meat".

5. Avoid sitting on the threshold.

On this day of long summer, the ancients thought that you can't just sit on the threshold. It is said that sitting on the threshold in summer will make you tired all summer, and people will get sick easily. Therefore, for the sake of their own health, many people will not sit on the threshold.

Step 6 eat black bamboo shoots

In Sichuan, there is a custom of eating black bamboo shoots in the long summer. The so-called "black bamboo shoots" are actually slender bamboo shoots that locals eat on this day. You can choose a suitable cooking method according to your own preferences. As for why you want to eat, I still hope my legs can be as hard and strong as bamboo shoots, so it is easier to climb the mountain. Of course, the temperature has gradually increased since the long summer, so it will be difficult to eat later.

7. Eat porridge

According to local historical records, China ancient times every year? Summer festival? Folk customs such as eating porridge and hanging eggs have been formed. Folklore? Drink in summer? Can summer porridge be guaranteed? In peacetime? What's wrong with you? Although the disaster is only a legend, this custom is pinned on it? Are children interested in beauty? Living yearning.

8. Try new things

Is it a lot? "Is there? The custom of early adopters in summer. ? Children's tasting season Things can be healthy and auspicious. For example, eat cherries, buds and silkworms? , garlic sprout, amaranth, green plum, etc? Fruit and vegetables. Eat more fruits and vegetables.

There is a saying in the nutrition world that "five fruits and vegetables a day, yours?" Life is colorful? ",eat all kinds of yan? Vegetables The intake of fruits and nutrients is more balanced.

9. Do a summer job

In midsummer, is Fuzhou amorous feelings flowing? Cooking? Do summer. ? Edge paste (? Say the pot is burnt. Do you cook with the pulp in the pot? Yes, do you have any shrimp? , shrimp oil, leek,? Needle, needle, needle? , or a small amount? Mushrooms and clams Wait for seafood broth, it tastes extremely delicious? .

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North of China? A variety? Mai,? Is it summer? Mai is on stage, so North? Some areas? In summer, there is a custom of making and celebrating. Wheat harvest ? Summer? Mainly summer cakes. There are three kinds of cakes and spring rolls.

1 1, have tea

Jiangxi, Yangzhou and other places in China? The custom of drinking tea in summer.

Iii. Poems about Long Summer:

1, yat sen villa

Li shangyin

A person lives in seclusion, overlooking the city, spring is gone, summer is clear.

The grass was drowned by the rain and finally got the love of God. The rain was sunny.

Climbing on the high shelf, overlooking the distance, the sky is high and the afterglow of the sunset passes through the window lattice.

Birds' nests have been dried, and their bodies are light again.

2. Koike

Song Yang Wanli

The silence of spring is because I don't want a long stream of water, and the shadow reflected on the water is like sunny days and breezes.

The delicate lotus flower bud shows a sharp corner from the water, and a naughty little dragonfly stands on its head.

This poem is so familiar that the scene of early summer seems to be in front of us.

3. Long summer in the mountains uses guest rhyme.

Tian Xiang, Wen Song

Returning to the Spring Stone Kingdom, the sun and the moon are flowing.

The air is heavy and deep in summer, and it is everywhere in spring.

The poor song is dark, and the light drink wins the red skirt.

A string of sounds is good, and the human wind is relieved.

Fourth, the long summer proverb:

1, "long summer gust, wheat with a sieve"

Literally, it is not difficult to explain that if there is a strong wind in the long summer, the wheat harvest will be affected and the wheat yield may be reduced, which is unacceptable to farmers, especially in ancient times when food and clothing were difficult to solve. Why does windy wheat reduce production? In fact, there is still a certain statement.

In the long summer, winter wheat will enter the flowering and pollination period. At this time, once the wind blows casually, it will affect the pollination problem of wheat and lead to a reduction in production. Of course, due to the drought and lack of rain in the north and the high temperature in May, it is also prone to hot air disease, which seriously reduces wheat production.

2. "You can't stop in the long summer, and the plough is high."

Long summer is the key period of crop growth, and the weather has a great influence on crop harvest. However, this proverb is aimed at the southern region. It says that if it doesn't rain in the long summer, it will affect rice planting. Because of the soil hardening caused by drought, it is difficult for farmers to continue farming at this time, and the plough will be hung high.

These two proverbs are aimed at wheat and rice, which shows that they are both regional, and everyone should analyze the harvest according to the local conditions.