What are the traditional customs of summer solar terms?

The traditional customs of summer solar terms include sending a "summer boat", eating litchi, mutton, rice, eating pineapple, eating grass, drinking summer sheep and playing cricket.

Send a "summer boat"

The activity of sending a "summer boat" in summer has a history of hundreds of years in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. The "Summer Boat" was completely built according to the scale of the old three-masted sailboat, which contained various sacrifices. After the activity began, more than 50 fishermen took turns to carry the "Summer Boat" to the streets, drums were blaring, firecrackers were ringing, and people were praying all over the street. The "Summer Boat" was finally transported to the dock for a series of blessing ceremonies. Subsequently, this "summer boat" was dragged out of the fishing port by fishing boats, and then lit on the sea to let it rise and fall, in order to wish people a bumper harvest and a healthy life.

People in Jiaojiang, Taizhou also have the custom of eating ginger juice to adjust eggs in summer. Ginger juice can eliminate moisture in the body, and ginger juice can adjust eggs and "replenish people". Some elderly people like to eat chicken porridge, which is said to tonify yang.