Customs of Summer: Summer Ceremony, Summer Scale, New Tasting, Egg Fighting, Resistance and Resistance Rope Tying.

1, welcome summer ceremony

Ancient emperors to rate the civil and military officials to the southern outskirts of the capital to welcome the summer, held to welcome the summer ceremony. Expressing prayers and good wishes for a good harvest.

2, the summer scale

People in the village entrance or the door to hang up a large wooden scale, scale hooks hanging a stool, we take turns to sit on the stool above the scale. The weigher would hit the scales with a flower and talk about good luck.

3, tasting new activities

Suzhou has a "summer to see the three new" proverb, three new cherries, plums, wheat, used to worship ancestors. In Changshu, to taste the new food is more plentiful, there are "nine meat and thirteen vegetarian" said. In Nantong, they eat boiled chicken and duck eggs.

4, egg game

Adults with silk thread braided into an egg set, filled with hard-boiled eggs hanging around the neck of small children. Eggs are divided into two ends, the pointed one is the head, the round one is the tail, when the egg fight egg head hit the egg head, the egg tail hit the egg tail, broken people admit defeat.

5, tied Resistance and Resistance Rope

People will use five-color silk thread tied to the child's wrist, etc., in order to eliminate the summer heat. This also expresses people's good wishes to pray for good luck and eliminate disasters.