Every summer, people will eat hard-boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, but because people believe that eating eggs on this day can strengthen the body. And since eggs are round, people also think that eating eggs on this day symbolizes the fulfillment of all things.

Everyone wants to have more books and better arrangements in the new year, so eating eggs has become a favorite custom. Such custom has been widely accepted and gradually turned into a tradition.

Summer day is usually in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, "April eggs are cheap as vegetables", people put the eggs into the leftover "seven family tea" boiled and burned into the "tea eggs". Later, people improved the cooking method, in the "seven tea" in the addition of fennel, meat brine, cinnamon, ginger, from now on, tea eggs is no longer a summer festival food, and has become one of China's traditional snacks.

One way to put it is that the ancients believed that the egg is round, symbolizing the success of life, summer day to eat eggs can pray for summer peace. "Eat eggs in the summer, hot days not Resistance and Resistance to summer", many places have to eat "summer eggs" custom, is to say that eating eggs in the summer can prevent the common summer loss of appetite, wasting and other symptoms of bitter summer.

"Eating eggs in the summer"

The custom of eating eggs in the summer has a long history. As the saying goes, "If you eat eggs in the summer, you will not be resisting summer resistance in the hot days." 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 weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called "Resistance and Propulsion". Mother Nuwa told the people, every year on the day of summer, children's chest hung on the boiled eggs of chickens, ducks and geese, can be avoided Resistance to summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs at the summer festival has continued until now.

There is also a saying that: the most complementary to eat in the summer, eat an egg is equivalent to eating a chicken. After the beginning of summer, farming began to be busy, people are easy to get tired. Eating red dates and eggs is to replenish physical strength. This argument, on the contrary, fits with the theory of Chinese medicine.

The Chinese medicine believes that eggs are flat, supplement the qi deficiency, have the function of tranquilizing the mind and nourishing the heart, and eating eggs when you are sick can help restore your strength. In the past, when living conditions were not so good, jujube eggs were very difficult to eat, eat a summer egg, both hard labor before the treat, but also on the peace and the hope of a good harvest.