First, long summer custom: take a big scale.
On this day in long summer, people will hang a big wooden scale on the big tree at the entrance of the village, and the scale hook will be changed into a bench for people to sit on. The villagers will take turns to sit on the stool, and the weigher will say a jingle while weighing flowers. The content is: Weigh 87, live to 91; One hundred and five pounds, people from outside find you; The champion son has a fate; Weighing a dozen to twenty-three, the young official will be out of the mountain.
Second, long summer custom: eating eggs and hanging colored eggs.
As the old saying goes:? Long summer eats eggs, but stones trample on them. ? It means that on this day in long summer, people will eat eggs to supplement their body nutrition, and their bodies will be strong, so that stones can be ruined. Long summer means that summer is coming, the temperature is increasing day by day, and some people will become weak. Eating eggs means good health. According to legend, Nu Wa Empress told her plebeian people that every year when she was in long summer, she hung an egg for her children, so she wouldn't dare to look for children in summer. Summer is a disease in ancient times. Because of the hot weather, children's resistance drops, and children easily become their habitat. Hanging brightly colored eggs (colorful woven bags or a pocket made of wool) will drive away the ghosts and monsters, just like people wearing colored ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Third, long summer custom: eat long summer rice.
In the south, long summer rice is made of five different colors of ingredients. Generally, rice is the main ingredient, and red beans, mung beans, black beans, green beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, carrots and sausages are also selected. Therefore, some people also call long summer rice? Five-color rice? It means that this year's grain harvest is abundant, and things are rich and people are rich. In the north, long summer's rice is mainly pasta, while in long summer, the wheat is not mature enough, so there is a custom of making and eating pasta in long summer in the north, which means celebrating a bumper harvest. There are three kinds of pasta in long summer: summer cake, flour cake and spring rolls. ?
Fourth, long summer customs:? Seven porridge? Taste three delicacies? .
People in rural areas of Zhejiang still eat when they are in long summer? Seven porridge? Seven porridge is made by villagers taking out their own old rice, adding brown sugar and seven kinds of beans to make porridge, and then sharing it with everyone; Is there one in Suzhou? See Sanxin in long summer? Proverbs. ? Sanxin? Refers to cherries, plums and wheat.