What is the custom of weighing in the 24 solar terms?

There is a traditional custom in changxia: weigh yourself! "Long summer is called a person, hanging on the beam and laughing." . In the long summer, the ancients took turns to weigh themselves, watched the people who weighed them count loudly, and added auspicious words to remind people to pay attention to their health and avoid mosquito diseases in summer. Weight gain is called "gaining weight" and weight loss is called "losing weight".

In some places, people will record the numbers on the wall at home after weighing themselves, weigh themselves again after summer, compare the two weights to see if they have lost too much weight in the bitter summer, and try to make up for the lost weight by "sticking autumn fertilizer" in autumn.

Chang Xia said the origin of weight.

Now it is said that "if you don't lose weight in the long summer, you will be sad in the midsummer solstice", but the ancients don't think so. Many dynasties believed that fat was beautiful and fat represented good fortune. Can enter the summer, the weather is hot, people's appetite will be affected, coupled with high consumption, people's weight will drop, thus affecting health.

People set the custom of weighing in the long summer. It is said that after weighing, people in summer will not lose weight and get sick. So every time after lunch in long summer, people will put a big scale at the entrance of the village and hang a stool on the scale hook. Adults and children will take turns sitting on stools and weighing. The special scale will tell the elderly about longevity while weighing flowers, and the girl will wish the elderly a good life.