Long summer, also known as "long summer Festival", in Wenzhou, every family eats bamboo shoots and Huai beans (that is, broad beans, which are called Huai beans because they come from the Huaihe River and Huaihe River) and green plums. In Yueqing, every family, old and young, eats tea eggs, green plums, fresh bamboo shoots and fresh broad beans, thinking that it can prevent "summer sickness" (people will be thin and weak in summer). After transplanting rice in the countryside, farmers kill chickens and ducks to nourish their bodies, and give cattle water chestnut fragrant medicine to strengthen their muscles and bones, so as to prepare for the next "double summer" labor. Every family also makes wheat cakes or black rice cakes to sacrifice to their ancestors, rich and poor alike.
Long summer custom-buy red flowers
During the long summer season, in all parts of southern Zhejiang, every family has to buy safflower and new tea for ~ years. There is a poem that says, "It is sunny and April in long summer, and I will negotiate with Lang to spend money for the new year;" Safflower and salted vegetables are difficult to slow down, and it is even more difficult to buy new tea for one year. " Because the new grain was planted at that time, it was the time when the green and yellow were not connected. If you don't reserve rice, you will buy it at a high price when it is in short supply. At the same time, the silkworm moth breaks out of the cocoon and pulls out new silk. If the tea leaves are not collected, they will become old leaves. Safflower is used by women to dye clothes. It is produced in April and must be bought in time.
Long summer custom-weighing people.
The custom of "addressing people" on the day of long summer was mainly popular in southern China, which originated in the Three Kingdoms period: Meng Huo was subdued by Zhuge Liang, and after he surrendered to Shu, he obeyed Zhuge Liang. On his deathbed, Zhuge Liang told Meng Huo to visit the Shu master once a year. On the day of Zhuge Liang's entrustment, it happened to be long summer this year, and Meng Huo immediately went to worship Adou. Since then, every summer, Meng Huo has promised to come to visit. After many years, Sima Yan, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, lost Shu and took Adou away. And Meng Huo did not forget the great trust. Every year, long summer led troops to visit Adou in Luoyang, and every time he went, he weighed Adou to verify whether Adou was mistreated by Emperor Wu of Jin. He threatened to attack Jin if he mistreated Dou. In order to win Meng Huo's trust, Emperor Wu of Jin used glutinous rice and peas to cook lunch for Adou every year in long summer. Adou saw the glutinous and fragrant pea glutinous rice, and his appetite increased greatly. Meng Huo weighed himself in the city, and every time he weighed a few kilograms more than the previous year. Although Adou had no skill, Meng Huo was called a man by long summer, and Emperor Wu of Jin did not dare to mistreat him, so he lived a peaceful life and lived a long and happy life. Although this legend is inconsistent with history, what the people want is a peaceful world of "peace and happiness, longevity and happiness". Long summer said that people can bring good fortune to A Dou, and people also hope that God will bring them good luck. Long summer said that people have been passed down to this day. Every day in long summer, people eat lunch, hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or the entrance of the platform, and hang a stool on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and say. The ancient poem goes: "long summer weighs people, and laughs on the hanging beam of the scale." While weighing flowers, the weigher spoke auspicious words. When weighing the old man, he said, "Weigh 87 and live to 91.". When you weigh a girl, you say, "One hundred and five pounds, and people from outside come to you. Don't be willing, don't be willing, and the champion son has a fate. " When weighing a child, he said, "It takes a dozen or twenty-three, and the little official will grow up." Seven-product county officials should not be guilty, and the three public officials and nine ministers should climb. " Weighing flowers can only be typed in (that is, from decimal to large number), not outside.
Every summer, there is a custom of weighing people in various places. On the nave at home or in the patio, a large scale is hung, which can be weighed by men, women and children at home, but mainly by weighing children. There is a touching legend among the people: According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhao Zilong rescued Liu Adou from Cao Ying's millions of troops in Changbanpo, while Mrs. Mi, Adou's biological mother, committed suicide by throwing herself into a well so as not to drag Zhao Yun down. Adou is taken care of by Liu Bei himself. However, it is inconvenient for Liu Bei to take his children with him in the army, so he thinks it is better to give Adou to his later wife (Sun Quanmei) to raise him. So Liu Bei prepared many gifts, and Zhao Zilong escorted Adou to Wu. When I arrived in Wu, it happened to be long summer Festival. When Mrs. Sun saw the chubby little Adou, she liked it very much, but she was worried: after all, I am a stepmother. If Adou is not well raised, it will not only be difficult to explain to her husband, but also leave a laughing stock among the people. She thought of a way: Today is long summer. I'll weigh Adou in front of Zhao Zilong, and then I'll weigh him in long summer next year, and I'll know if the child is well raised. As soon as she made up her mind, Mrs. Sun immediately had Xiao Dou weighed. From then on, Mrs. Sun will weigh Xiao Dou every year in long summer Festival, and then inform Liu Bei. In this way, in the south of the Yangtze River, the custom of honoring people in long summer was formed. Weighing people also has some taboos. For example, when weighing, the scale can't move inward, but can only move outward, which means that it can only be aggravated, but not lightened. Another example is that the number of pounds weighed is nine, and one pound must be added when reporting, because nine is the last number, which is unlucky. Generally, it is called long summer Festival in the second year, to test the fatness in a year. In Huzhou, children are said to put a stone in their pockets, one is to increase their weight, and the other is to take the meaning of longevity. In Ningbo, on this day, a large scale is hung in the ancestral temple, and a laundry list is hung on the scale hook. Adults and children weigh it one by one, which means that they can avoid the disease of summer, gain weight, gain weight every year, and lose weight, which means "eliminating meat", so they must be supplemented.
Long summer Custom-Five Langs and Eight Guarantees Going to Wu Shan
In the summer, workers from all walks of life used to take vacations and go to Wu Shan to play more. There is a Hangyan Day: "Five Langs and Eight Guarantees Go to Wu Shan." Five lang, that is, Ma Mi Lang, Shaving Lang, Daoma Lang (a dung collector), cobbler Lang, and foil maker Lang. Eight guarantees, namely, bartender, noodle guarantee, tea guarantee, rice guarantee, local guarantee, horse guarantee, mutual guarantee (yin and yang) and milk guarantee (baby-rearing). Thirteen craftsmen went to Wu Shan this day. Thirteen craftsmen, namely carpenters, plasterers, masons, blacksmiths, shipbuilders, Buddhists, carvers, painters, silversmiths, coppersmith, sawmakers, masons and kilns.