The egg fight in Lixia is to pray for the peace of summer and to withstand ? Resistance and Resistance to Summer The test of Resistance and Resistance.
The custom of fighting and eating eggs in Lixia has a long history. On the summer, there is a folk proverb: summer chest hanging eggs, children do not resist 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 a body fatigue and limb weakness, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called ? Resistance to summer? Ancient people believe that the egg is round, symbolizing the success of life, eat eggs on the day of summer can pray for the peace of summer, withstand? Resistance and resistance to summer? The test of resistance and propulsion.
Why do you want to fight the egg in the summer
The folk saying is: summer chest hanging eggs, small people resistance (zh) summer difficult. After entering the summer, because of the feeling of summer heat, some people, especially the old and the young and weak, prone to loss of appetite, fatigue, tiredness, distraction, symptoms such as gas deficiency, known as resistance to summer. Eggs, as a simple and easily available nutrient, are a good choice for preventing summer resistance in advance. And with the children's nature of mind, the combination of eating and playing together, that's even better.
Of course, as a seasonal custom, the summer egg has its witchcraft/ritual significance. According to traditional Chinese medical theory, summer is appropriate to nourish the heart, it is believed that the heart is like a dormant egg, so eating eggs at the arrival of summer, the role of crutch heart. And eat eggs on the heart, with the other customs of the summer to eat bamboo shoots, on the legs; eat beans, on the eyes of people facing the upcoming summer heat, the body loss of insecurity, finally in this whole set of form to make up for the shape, support the body health rituals to find a place to dissolve.
So, in the past, folk proverbs will say this: the summer ate eggs, the strength of ten thousand. Although, to not worry about nutrition, the only fear of fat now, those who can not wait to shake on the three pounds of thin people, will change this sentence into a summer do not eat eggs, thin not good-looking, but also really not accurate.
The rules of the summer egg fight
The children get the summer egg is not eager to eat first, but first to compare, fight a fight. The little friends each carrying a red woven bag, which are heavy eggs. Everyone three groups, five groups, each fist, began to fight eggs. The rules of egg fighting are very simple. Eggs are divided into two ends, the pointed one is the head, the round one is the tail, when the egg fight egg head fight egg head, egg tail hit egg tail, one by one fight over, the broken one admits defeat, divided into high and low, the final winner is the king of the egg. When fighting eggs, children also especially like to doodle and draw on the eggs. Most of the girls draw rabbits, chicks, ducks and other pictures on them, which are lively and cute. Boys like to draw some lions, tigers and other beasts, to show their dominance of victory.