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What are the common customs of the summer: summer egg fighting
May 6 is the first summer, fighting egg custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang area is very popular, mainly in the hope that the children safe summer.

Fighting eggs, is the egg, duck eggs cooked, egg head to egg head, egg tail to egg tail, collision until one side of the broken shell until the final winner is the "King of the eggs", and the fight broken eggs can be down to the belly in a dignified manner.

The summer festival, adults with silk thread braided into an egg set, filled with hard-boiled eggs and duck eggs, hanging around the neck of small children. Resistance and propulsion rope that is long-life wisp, with five-color silk thread tied to the child's wrist and other places for its disaster and pray for blessings, to eliminate summer heat and disease, in order to prevent the note summer. Every year in the summer will eat eggs, but also put the eggs into the colorful mesh pocket to the school to "fight eggs".

In fact, the custom of "fighting and eating eggs at the beginning of summer" has a long history. On the summer, there is a proverb: "summer chest hanging egg, the child is not Resistance to summer". "Legend has it that from the day of summer, the weather is warm and sunny and gradually hot, many people, especially children will have the feeling of physical fatigue and limb weakness, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called 'Resistance and Resistance to Summer'. Ancient people believe that the egg round, symbolizing the success of life, eat eggs on the day of summer can pray for the peace of summer, the test of 'Resistance to summer'.