Customary Activities:
1. Playing Chess
Playing chess, which is claimed to have been made by Emperor Yao to educate his son, Dan Zhu, according to the History of the Road. Nowadays, it is widely used, including Weiqi and Xiangqi. In ancient times, Go was known as Yi, which was recorded in Zuo Zhuan (左传-襄公二十五年), which reads, "Ning Zi regarded the king as inferior to Yi. How can he avoid it?" Confucius said, "Even though it is a small way, there will be something to see." It is also written in Mencius: "The game of autumn is also a substitute for the game of Tongguo." It can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the game of chess has been very popular. In the Western Capital Miscellany, there were people playing chess under the bamboo in the Han Palace; in the Western Han Dynasty, Duling Dufuzi was good at playing chess and was called the first person in the world. Before the Tang Dynasty, the game of chess vertical and horizontal each 17, **** two hundred and eighty-nine, black and white pieces, each with one hundred and fifty pieces. After the Tang Dynasty, the game was changed to nineteen vertical and horizontal channels, *** three hundred and sixty-one channels.
2, raise grasshoppers
Gamps, a named brother, whose name was first seen in the "bugs Aloe old saying". The name was first mentioned in "The Old Sayings of the Insects". The caddisflies often use their wings to rub together to make sounds, and their voices are very loud. Between summer and fall, most children keep them. Bottle Flower Zhai Collection" said that there is a kind of insect that seems to be fierce and fat, people in Beijing call it as smoke caddisfly, and people in the south call it as brother, and like to catch and feed it. Gamps smoke child to eat loofah flowers and melon flesh, call and urge to weave and similar but more than urge to weave clear. Under the clear dew, the smoke caddis chirps all night long, the sound is bleak, sour and unusual.
3, fishing
Summer cool Department, is not suitable for strenuous exercise, it is appropriate to do the activities. Fishing in the willow pond. Lapel when the wind, is the most pleasant leisure.
4, hairpin jasmine
Jasmine, like the sun, blooming in the summer. The flowers have a strong fragrance, can get rid of the dirty gas. Jiangsu and Shanghai and other places, summer flower sellers, often jasmine flowers with fine wire tied into a flower ball, flower belt, etc., for women hairpin wear. Flower farmers in Huqiu, Suzhou, put jasmine in a horse head basket, selling along the street, called Daihua, women will generally buy, hairpin wear. In the Book of Jin, it is written that "all the people put hairpins on Naihua", which is the jasmine nowadays. In the middle of summer, they would pick jasmine flowers every night, take half a cup of water from the well, put the flowers on the cup with something so that the flowers would be one or two centimeters away from the water, and seal them with thick paper. The next day the flowers can answer to wear, the water used to point tea, fragrant, especially wonderful.
5, fighting fireflies
Fireflies are beneficial insects, eat a variety of pests, very favorable to agricultural production. Fireflies have two kinds of males and females, male body yellow head black, with compound eyes, soft wings, covered with dotted lines; females do not have wings, shaped like maggots. Male and female bugs have a luminescent apparatus at the end of the tail, breathing, air flow, oxidation, emitting light, very beautiful. During the summer small summer season, female insects in the water plants to lay eggs, eggs also emit shimmering light, about the big summer before and after the small fireflies fly out. Jin Dynasty Che Yin family poverty, reading no money to buy lamp oil, so in the summer with a brocade bag filled with dozens of fireflies to illuminate the reading (see "Jin Book - Che Yin biography").
Diet:
1, eat mutton
North during the summer, summer drinking mutton soup, the first can nourish the body; the second "sheep" and "yang" harmonized, "the ancient people The ancient people believed that the loss of yang qi in summer is more, this can increase yang qi".
2, eat three treasures
"Small summer, big summer, on the steam down to cook", "small summer", means that the coming into the day of three volts. At this time of the year have eaten three treasures - eel, honey root, mung bean sprouts custom.
3, food new
June food new, is the Hakka people in the early rice harvest after the sickle, the new rice harvested into rice, in the beginning of the meal in honor of the gods of the grains and forefathers of a kind of folklore activities. Because of the war and disaster, the Hakka people from the Central Plains continue to move south, because many of the plains of the good land occupied by the residents who came earlier, the Hakka people can only live by the mountains, in the mountainous areas of the open fields, most of the life is more difficult, three meals a day on rice cooked into porridge or corn as the staple food, to eat a meal of dry rice is not an easy thing.
4, eat noodles
Volts of the custom of eating noodles at least in the Three Kingdoms period has begun. Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals": "Vuji eat soup cake, take a towel to wipe sweat, face bright", here the soup cake is hot soup noodles. Jing Chu chronicle" said: "June, the day of the soup cake, called the evil." May is a bad month, June is also dipped in the edge of the bad month, it should also be "open evil". The day can also eat water noodles, fried noodles. The so-called fried noodles is a pot of flour fried dry fried, and then mixed with water and sugar to eat, this eating method has been in the Han Dynasty Tang and Song Dynasty, more common, but then it is the first fried grains of wheat, and then grind the noodles to eat. Tang Dynasty physician Su Gong said, fried noodles can solve the annoying heat, stop leakage, solid colon.