Lixia, is a festival reflecting the seasonal changes, Lixia is the beginning, summer is the season, according to the traditional understanding, this is the beginning of the year's summer day. Generally on May 5 or 6 in the calendar. The following is my traditional activities and climate characteristics of the Lixia festival for you to organize, I hope it will be helpful to you.

Traditional activities of the Lixia Festival

Boiled eggs in Lixia

As the saying goes: "Eat eggs in Lixia, hot days are not propelled to summer." Every summer, the weather is warm and sunny and gradually hot, this time, people have to eat boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, that the summer to eat eggs can strengthen the body. The happiest are the children, parents usually weave colorful egg pockets, with the little ones fighting eggs.

Summer ceremony

On the day of the summer, the ancient emperor to rate the civil and military officials to the southern outskirts of the capital to welcome the summer, held a ceremony to welcome the summer. According to records, during the Zhou Dynasty, on the day of the first day of summer, the son of God to personally rate the civil and military officials to the outskirts of the "welcome to the summer" ceremony, and instructed Stuart to go to all over the country to encourage farmers to grasp the ploughing. Ceremony on the government officials all wear vermilion dress, with vermilion jade pendant, even horses, car flag should be vermilion, to express the harvest of hope and good wishes. Palace "start ice on the summer day, give the civil and military ministers". Ice is stored in the previous winter, by the emperor to the hundred officials.

Lixia weigh

Ancient China attaches great importance to the Lixia festival, there are many traditional customs, Lixia weighing this custom is rumored to be in the era of the Three Kingdoms has been. An ancient poem says: "Lixia weighing people light weight number, scale hanging on the beam laughs noisy girl." After weighing people on this day, they would not be afraid of the summer heat and would not lose weight, or else they would be plagued by diseases. Weighing people the origin of this custom, folklore, although there are different versions, but they are related to Liu Bei's son Adou.

Tea in the summer

In the Jiangxi area, there is a custom of drinking tea in the summer, said not to drink tea in the summer, will be a summer of suffering. In the day of the summer, women to gather seven families of tea, *** with the cooking and drinking, said the summer drinking seven families of tea, can ensure that the whole summer will not be sleepy. From a scientific point of view, the summer heat, often drink tea, especially cool green tea, can make the summer suddenly canceled, play the role of heat, diuretic detoxification. In addition, the summer temperature is high, the human body lost more water, often drink tea can be timely to replenish water.

Eat chicken intestinal noodles

In Yongding Taipingli, every summer, families have the habit of eating chicken intestinal noodles, each person to hand knead chicken intestinal noodles. At this time, the old man will recite: "long long chicken intestines noodles, everyone has to eat; summer eat the noodles, everyone foot bone healthy." Parents hope that their family members will eat chicken intestines noodles, will become energetic, strong, disease-free, work hard, life long, and so on.

Tasting activities

In folklore, there are also "summer tasting" customary activities. For example, in Suzhou, there is a "summer see three new" proverbs, three new cherries, plums, wheat, used to worship ancestors. Jiangsu and Zhejiang, many people have to eat a bowl of fragrant rice, that is, with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice cooked into "five-color rice". After the evolution of the Japanese soybean meat boiled glutinous rice, dishes have amaranth yellow fish soup, said to eat "summer rice".

Climatic characteristics of the summer season

After the summer, Jiangnan formally entered the rainy season, the amount of rain and rainy days have increased significantly, continuous rain not only leads to crop wet damage, but also cause a variety of disease epidemics. Wheat is most susceptible to infection of the period of mildew, if the future is expected to have warm but rainy weather, to grasp the beginning of the flowering period to the full flowering of spray control. Southern cotton in the rainy or warm weather conditions, often causing anthracnose, blight and other diseases ` outbreaks, resulting in a large area of dead seedlings, seedling shortage. Necessary measures should be taken in a timely manner to increase temperature and reduce humidity, and with the pharmaceutical control, in order to preserve the whole seedling to fight for strong seedlings. "More insertion of rice seedlings in the summer, grain harvest full warehouse", before and after the summer is the early rice transplanting red season in the north and south of the Yangtze River. "Can insert full moon rice seedlings, not gripping full moon grass", this time the temperature is still low, immediately after planting rice seedlings to strengthen the management, early fertilizer, early ploughing, early treatment of pests and diseases, to promote early hair. Middle rice sowing to grasp the end. Tea tree at this time the fastest development of spring, a little negligence, tea to aging, as the so-called "very few picking rain, summer picking stop", to focus on all-out, batches of surprise picking.

Before and after the summer, North China, Northwest China and other places, the temperature rises very quickly, but precipitation is still not much, coupled with the spring windy, evaporation is strong, atmospheric dryness and soil drought often seriously affect the normal growth of crops. Especially before and after the wheat grouting milk ripening dry and hot wind is the important catastrophic weather leading to yield reduction, timely irrigation is the key measure of drought prevention. "Summer three days hoeing all over the ground", this time the weed growth is very fast, "a day without hoeing, three days hoeing can not." Plowing hoeing not only removes weeds, drought prevention, but also improve ground temperature, accelerate the decomposition of soil nutrients, to promote cotton, corn, sorghum, peanuts and other crops in the seedling period of strong growth is very important.

After the summer, is a critical period of early rice planting, and this period of rain comes sooner or later and the amount of rain, and the future harvest has a close relationship. Farmer's proverb: "no summer, the plow and harrow high hanging." "Summer without rain, pestle and mortar without rice." Folk also fear the summer heat and weigh the custom, it is said that this day after weighing, not afraid of the summer heat, will not lose weight, otherwise there will be disease. Jiangxi area there is a custom of drinking tea in the summer, said not to drink tea in the summer, will be a summer of suffering. As early as in ancient times, kings also often in the initial days of summer, to go outside the city to welcome the summer, welcome the summer day is the day of summer.

"Rituals of the Moon" chapter, explaining the standing summer said: "Gryllotalpa chirping, earthworms out, Wang Gua Sheng, bitter vegetables show." Description at this time of year, the frogs began to clamor the arrival of summer, earthworms are busy helping farmers to turn over the soil, the countryside ridges of wild vegetables are also competing with each other out of the soil day to day climbing long. Early in the morning when people welcome the early summer sunshine, strolling in the countryside fields, seaside beaches, you will feel the deep love of nature from the gentle sunshine. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the color of the skin, the color of the skin, and the color of the skin.

What to eat in summer

Eggs

Eat eggs in summer, not only can withstand the test of "Resistance and Resistance", but also bring success in life.

The custom of eating eggs in the summer can prevent the lack of appetite, tiredness, limb weakness, emaciation and other symptoms of summer. Eggs, which are flat in nature, replenish qi deficiency and have the function of calming the mind and nourishing the heart.

Black Rice Cake

Black Rice Cake is also one of Ningbo's traditional summer snacks, which is made by pounding the leaves and soaking them in water, soaking the glutinous rice in the juice of the leaves to make it darker, and then steaming the soaked black glutinous rice with sugar and then hand-pressing it into a glutinous rice cake, which is eaten with a light fragrance of the leaves.

Wheatworms

At the summer festival, farmers in Shanghai's suburban counties take wheat flour and sugar made into inch-long strips of food, called wheatworms, people eat, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance".

With the summer of green grass head and into the rice flour, fried into cakes, called "stall rice", for the people of Shanghai and the Pudong area people like to eat. Also sugar plums, wine, salted eggs, etc. as seasonal food, known as seasonal food, to take a taste of the mouth, said taste "three new".