1, welcome summer ceremony

"Summer" of the "summer" is "big" means that the plants sown in the spring have grown upright. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the rituals and customs of the beginning of summer. In the old days, on the day of the summer, the ancient emperors had to rate the civil and military officials to the southern suburb of the capital to welcome the summer, and held a ceremony to welcome the summer.

The kings and ministers all wore vermilion-colored gowns, with vermilion-colored jade pendant, even the horses and car flags should be vermilion, in order to express the hope for a good harvest and good wishes. The court also want to "start ice on the day of summer, give civil and military ministers". Ice is stored in the previous winter, given by the emperor to the hundred officials.

2, eat Rixia eggs

As the saying goes, "Rixia ate eggs, hot days do not Resistance to summer", according to legend, from Rixia this day, the weather is sunny and warm and gradually hot, many people, especially children, will have physical fatigue limb weakness, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called "Resistance to Summer "

The Resistance and Resistance to Summer

The custom of "eating eggs at the beginning of summer" has a long history. As the saying goes: "Eat eggs in the summer, hot days, not Resistance and Resistance to 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 physical fatigue and limb weakness, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called "Resistance and Propulsion".

Niangniang Nuwa told the people, every year on the day of the summer, small children's chest hung on the boiled eggs of chickens, ducks and geese, you can avoid Resistance to summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs on the summer festival has continued until now.

3, avoid sitting on the threshold

Summer also avoid sitting on the threshold of the said. In Anhui, Daoguang ten years "Taihu County" recorded: "summer day, take bamboo shoots and amaranth for the soup, the phase commandment do not sit on the threshold of the door, no daytime sleep, said worry about the summer more tired of disease." It is said that this day sitting on the threshold, summer will be tired and sick. 30 years "Ningguo County Records" recorded: "the summer. To weigh the body weight, exempt from disease, the so-called not shy summer also.

The popular rumor is that in the summer sitting in the doorway, then a year of mental instability." On the day of summer, children are not allowed to sit on the stone steps, such as sitting on the seven root, can be dissipated. Medical devices against sitting on the medical device (threshold), said that high-weight medical devices on this day will attract summer foot and bone fracture, such as sitting on a high-weight medical device required to sit on six synthetic high-weight devices, the number of seven, can be relieved.

4. Boiling high-level medical devices against medical devices

During the summer months, it is popular in Fuzhou to boil high-level medical devices against medical devices. Dingbian paste (also known as pot paste), with rice paste shabu shabu pot side of the boiler and become, with shrimp, shrimp oil, green onions, golden needles, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of mushrooms, razor clams and other seafood broth, the flavor is extremely meat beautiful and delicious.

Anyone who grows up in Fuzhou or lives there for a long time loves to eat it. It has become a famous flavorful snack in Fuzhou and a special symbol of Fuzhou place. Fuzhou people living abroad, in a foreign country, the first time I heard "Dingbian paste" three words, as if to see the hometown of the "silhouette", to become a love of ancestors and love the hometown of the flavor of the snacks.

The summer cooking Dingbian "do summer", prevalent in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The summer has entered the busy season. On this day, not only did the family eat well and then work in the fields, but they also gave the food to each other and their neighbors to savor. As in the case of shabu-shabu, the food is cooked as soon as it is cooked, so as to build up a sense of connection. It reflects the traditional virtue of Fuzhou people, which is the "Golden Alley and Silver Township".