Summer should eat:

1, summer eggs

While the traditional food customs on the day of summer across the country have their own special features, but when it comes to the day of summer the most classic food is the "summer eggs". As the saying goes, "If you eat eggs on the first day of summer, you will not be resisting the summer heat." According to legend, from the day of the first summer, the weather will be warm and sunny, and gradually become hot, many people, especially children, will have the feeling of physical fatigue and weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite and gradual loss of weight, which is called "Resistance and Propulsion". Nüwa told the people, every year on the day of summer, children's chest hung on the boiled eggs of chickens, ducks and geese, can be avoided Resistance to summer.

2. Eat soft vegetables

Some places in the south have the custom of eating soft vegetables (Jun Tap Choi) in the summer, saying that after eating the summer will not give birth to prickly heat, and the skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables.

3. Eat shrimp noodles

Old times, the southern region of Fujian summer to eat shrimp noodles, shrimp mixed into the noodles to cook, shrimp cooked red, for the auspicious color, and shrimp and the summer resonance, as an expression of wishes for the summer.

4. Eat "light cake"

Some areas in Fujian have eaten "light cake" custom in the summer.

5. "seven porridge"

The rural villages of east Zhejiang eat "seven porridge" at the beginning of the summer, "seven porridge" is a collection of left and right neighboring houses of the family's rice, coupled with a variety of colors Beans and sugar, boiled into a large pot of porridge, by everyone to share food. It is said that after eating this porridge, the neighbors will be in harmony, and they will go to summer plowing and summer planting.

Legend of the summer:

Summer is a traditional festival of the year, the Zhou Dynasty in the day of the summer, the son of heaven to rate the three dukes and nine ministers and all the great doctors, to the south of the city outskirts to welcome the summer. And held a ceremony to worship the late emperor Zhu Rong. Han Dynasty also inherited this custom, "the Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Sacrifice Zhi": "the day of the summer to welcome the summer, in the south of the countryside, sacrifices to the Red Emperor Zhu Rong, the car flag costumes are red." The song "Zhu Ming" and the dance "Dance of the Cloud's Fin".

To the Song Dynasty, the rituals are more complicated. In the Ming Dynasty, there was the "custom of tasting the new". The Qing Dynasty, "the Imperial Capital Years and Years" in "summer to take the usual exposure of the rice flour spring buds, and fried with sugar as a variety of colors of fruit stacks, feed each other". And use willow branches to wear fruit stacks for children's food, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the custom of eating flower rice in the summer, also known as "eat complementary food". Folk customs and "eat eggs in the summer, stone are trampled," said the summer to eat eggs and duck eggs can enhance the body, but also can withstand the summer heat.

Some of the summer food bamboo shoots, some of the summer drinking, are rushed to the festival this day, the name is "summer see three new", the southern region in the old days when the summer, the family steamed new tea, and with a variety of fruits, gifts to relatives and neighbors.

Customs of summer:

1, fighting eggs

As the saying goes, "summer chest hanging eggs, children are not Resistance and Resistance to summer". Resistance and propulsion (zhù) summer is a common symptom of summer, the patient is more abdominal anorexia, fatigue and emaciation, small children are particularly susceptible to resistance and propulsion (zhù) summer.

On the day of summer, people cook eggs, and some places also use black tea or walnut shells to cook eggs, called "summer eggs". The eggs are put into egg sets woven with colorful threads and given to each other. The eggs are put into egg sets woven with colorful threads, and are given to each other. They are hung on the chests of the children or on the tents. Children fight for the egg for the play, to the egg shell firm but not broken for the win. There are also places, with five-color silk thread for children tied hand rope, called "Rixia rope".

2, the custom of the summer -- weighing people

Lixia ate the midday meal, there is the custom of weighing people. An old poem says: "the summer weighing people light and heavy number, the scale hanging on the beam laughs noisy girl."

People hang up a big wooden scale, scale hook hanging a stool, we take turns to sit on the stool above the scale. They took turns sitting on top of the stool. The weigher spoke auspicious words as he weighed people.