Full harvest.

The summer rice with bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth and other condiments, containing the meaning of the "five grains", eat five-color rice in the summer, there is also a year-round health of the meaning.

Every summer the day before, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice". They dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some fava beans, and use some garlic cloves. Summer day will be pocketed rice and ingredients in the open air cooking, rice put plums, cherries, etc., sent to the day before the rice to the family, a small bowl of each family, the folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.

Customs of the summer

1, tasting new activities?

In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, there is a "summer tasting new" custom. Suzhou place has "summer see three new" proverbs. The "three new" refers to the new ripe cherries, plums and wheat. People first sacrifice to their ancestors with these "three new", and then people taste. At the same time, Suzhou summer to eat sea snails, gluten, white bamboo shoots, chestnuts, salted duck eggs, green fava beans, various hotels in the summer of the day into the store's old customers to send wine, soju, do not take a penny, and therefore also called the summer of the "feed festival".

2, egg game?

"Rixia eggs, dumped all over the street", fighting eggs is usually a game for children. To use cooked eggs, usually with white water with shell boiled whole eggs (shell can not be broken), by the cold water soaked, and then loaded with colorful silk thread or floss woven into the mesh pocket, let the child hang on the neck.

The rules of the egg fight are quite simple, to put it bluntly is "harder than whose eggshells": we each hold an egg, pointed for the head, round for the tail, the head of the egg hit the head of the egg, the tail of the egg hit the tail of the egg, one by one, fight the past, fight the shell of the breakthroughs, admit defeat, and then eat the egg, and the last to stay in that the fight does not break the strongest, was honored as the "Egg King". "Egg King".