There is a custom of weighing people after lunch in the long summer. People hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or platform, and a stool is hung on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and weigh people. When weighing flowers, the caller said auspicious words. The old man will say, "weigh 87 and live to 91." The weighing girl said, "105 Jin, someone is looking for you outside." Unwilling, unwilling, unwilling, the son of the champion has a fate. " The weighbridge said, "The weighbridge costs a dozen or twenty-three, and the young official grows up."
Taste new activities
It refers to tasting fresh seasonal things in the long summer, such as tea eggs (called long summer eggs), green plums, cherries, ears of wheat, fresh broad beans, shad, black rice (cooked with black leaves soaked in rice), five tiger eggs (red dates, black dates, walnuts, longan, litchi) and so on. This time has become a time when people have toothache, which is quite popular with children.
Egg beating game
On this day, after I got the eggs in the long summer, I didn't rush to eat them first, but compared them first. Every friend carries a red woven bag, which is full of heavy eggs. In groups of three or five, everyone rubbed their hands and began to beat eggs.
Summer welcoming ceremony
The word "summer" in "long summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs and habits of 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.