1, Welcome to Summer Ceremony: In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs and habits of the long summer. On the long summer day, the ancient emperor would lead officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. The monarch and his subjects all wear red ceremonial costumes and red jade ornaments. Even horses and car flags should be red to express their prayers and good wishes for a bumper harvest.
2. Taste the new: In the long summer, some crops have been harvested, so there is a custom of "taste the new" everywhere. 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". Nine meats include crucian carp, salted eggs, snail gizzard, quenched chicken, salty 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. Shanghai, Wenzhou and other places will eat green plums in summer.
3. Eat eggs and beat eggs: With the arrival of long summer, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and many people will feel tired and have no appetite. This symptom is called "Zhu Shu". In the folk, there is a saying that "eggs are eaten in long summer, and stones are crushed", which means that people will be very energetic if they eat eggs in long summer; And "hanging eggs on the chest in long summer, children have no summer" means that children hang eggs cooked in clear water on their chests and have an "egg-beating" competition in the form of head-to-tail collision, which can avoid or alleviate the symptoms of "summer".
4. Weighing people: "Long summer is called people, and the boudoir laughs on the hanging beam of the scale." On the day of long summer, "weighing people" means weighing people. People hang a big wooden scale and a stool on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and weigh people. This custom is mainly popular in southern China and originated in the Three Kingdoms period. It is said that after being weighed in the long summer, people are not afraid of the heat in summer, which makes people lose weight day by day.
5. Long-summer candied fruit: In the long summer, there is the habit of eating "long-summer candied fruit", just like Tomb-Sweeping Day eating Ai, eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival and eating osmanthus wine on Double Ninth Festival, all of which were handed down from the older generation, in order to achieve a "bumper harvest in spring".