In the summer festival, adults use silk thread to weave into an egg set, filled with boiled eggs and duck eggs, hung around the neck of small children. Resistance and propulsion rope that is long-life wisp, with five-color silk thread tied to the child's wrist and other places for its disaster and pray for blessings, to eliminate summer heat and disease, in order to prevent the note summer. Every year in the summer will eat eggs, but also put the eggs into the colorful mesh pocket to the school to "touch the egg".
Children touch the eggs for the play, to the eggshell firm but not broken for the win.
There are also places where children are tied with colorful threads, called "Rixia Rope".
In fact, the custom of "touching and eating eggs in summer" has a long history. There is a proverb about Rixia: "Rixia chest hanging eggs, children are 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 the feeling of physical fatigue and limb weakness, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called 'Resistance and Resistance to Summer'. The ancients believed that the egg round, symbolizing the success of life, eat eggs on the day of summer can pray for the peace of summer, the test of 'Resistance and Resistance'.
Why should we touch the egg in the summer
As the saying goes, "hang the egg in the chest in the summer, and the child will not be resisting summer". Resistance to summer is a common symptom of summer, the patient more belly up anorexia, fatigue and emaciation, small children are particularly susceptible to resistance to 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".
Traditional Summer Customs: Crashing Eggs, Cooking Glutinous Rice, and Eating "Foot Bone Bamboo Shoots"
Since ancient times, people have attached great importance to the beginning of the summer, and still retain the customs of crashing eggs, cooking Japanese beans, and cooking glutinous rice. In addition, the old Ningbo has a unique custom of eating "foot bone bamboo shoots".
There is an old saying, "Eat foot bone bamboo shoots in the summer, and your feet will be healthy for a year". The so-called foot bone bamboo shoots, is the Ningbo dialect of the name, in fact, is the mountain of the bamboo shoots. The summer solstice, the beginning of agricultural work, we all hope that the "foot bone health" (health), eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" has become a folk prayer for health of a borrowed generation.
Foot bone bamboo shoots, each about three, four inches long, not cut open, eat to pick two of the same thickness of the bamboo shoots eaten in one bite, shaped like a foot bone, eaten to signify a whole year of "foot bone healthy". Although few people nowadays have to do farm work, the custom of eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" is still firmly remembered.
Eating tea eggs and eggs is also an important custom in old Ningbo. The old Ningbo people pay attention to health in early summer. "Eat only egg in the early summer, the stone board will be trampled", which means that eating tea-leaf eggs on the day of the early summer will give you a good body. Children hanging around their necks with silk thread braided egg sets, filled with hard-boiled eggs, duck eggs, some also painted patterns on the eggs, and each other to test hard, known as bumping eggs.
Summer egg method
Bump eggs, eggs, duck eggs cooked, egg head to egg head, egg tail to egg tail, collision until one side of the broken shell until the final winner is the "king of the egg", and the fight broken eggs can be hallowed to the belly. Now think about it, feel quite silly, but at that time it was really fun, may be nowadays children can not understand and can not enjoy the joy of it.
Play of the summer egg
Eating tea eggs is a favorite custom of the hours. When I was a child, I would play with the eggs. The mother will give the child to weave a egg Luo (is the color rope woven pouch, can hold a tea egg), the children will pick their own hardest egg to bring to school or kindergarten and other children's eggs to hit, if their own eggs to others broken eggs, but a very honorable thing. People who live in towns and cities don't pay much attention to festivals, but the fun they have had since childhood gives the festival a sense of celebration. Even now, the children still play this traditional game on the day of the festival.