Welcome summer customs
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, people are sad and cherish spring because of the bright spring, so they prepare wine and vegetables for fun, as if they were giving people away, and call it Hunchun. Cui said in Fu: "The beginning of welcoming summer is the end of spring." Wu Outing's poem "Long Summer" also said: "There is no way to go in spring, and the cherry blossoms return in spring."
Taste new customs
There is a saying in Suzhou that "three creations are seen in the long summer". The three creations are cherries, plums and wheat, which are used for ancestor worship. In Changshu, tasting new foods is more abundant, and there is a saying of "nine meats and thirteen vegetables". These nine kinds of meat are crucian carp, salted eggs, snails, chicken, salted fresh, marinated shrimp and cherry meat. Thirteen elements include cherry, plum, wheat silkworm, bamboo shoot, broad bean, spear tip, pea, cucumber, lettuce, grass head, radish, rose and pine flower. In Nantong, we eat boiled chicken and duck eggs.
The custom of weighing people
This interesting activity is said to have originated in the Three Kingdoms period. Adou was brought up by Mrs. Sun. She will weigh Adou in front of Zhao Zilong, and each cycle will be evaluated according to the long summer. However, she wrote to Zhuge Liang to report the situation. Until now, Chang Xia said that people hang themselves from trees, and in many cases, they weigh old people and children. This is a folk custom and has become a game for people.
Egg beating custom
Compared with other solar terms and festivals, long summer activities are relatively practical. This simple game is that adults weave eggs with silk thread, then put them into pre-cooked eggs or duck eggs and hang them around children's necks. Because they beat eggs, they will draw patterns on them, and people will compare the contents of the paintings with each other.
The origin of long summer
It evolved from the way of establishing calendar and time in ancient times.
In ancient times, there was a clock that pointed to time. When its handle points to the southeast, it is the season of long summer, because everything will absorb the essence of the sun and the nutrition of the earth at this time, so it is the best time to grow. Long summer represents a simple way to say goodbye to spring and welcome summer.