What are the customs in the long summer?

1, Eating Eggs: In Hangzhou, there is a saying "Eating eggs in the long summer, but stones step on them", which means that eating eggs in the long summer will make people full of energy. Children hang egg covers made of silk thread around their necks, which contain boiled eggs and duck eggs. Some even draw patterns on the eggs, trying to compete with each other. This is called egg collision.

2. Weighing people: There is a custom of weighing people after lunch in the long summer. The ancient poem goes: "Long summer is called a person, hanging beam laughs." People hang a big wooden scale and a stool on the hook, and everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people. The weigher speaks auspicious words while weighing people.

3. Eat porridge: According to local historical records, in ancient China, people formed the custom of eating porridge and hanging eggs during the annual "Long Summer" solar term. According to folklore, drinking porridge in long summer on this day can ensure a year of peace, disease-free and disaster-free. Although it is only a legend, this custom supports people's yearning for a better life.

4. Eat rice in the long summer: On this day in the long summer, according to the traditional customs of China people, we should eat all kinds of rice in different ways. Black rice, peas and glutinous rice ... The main ingredient is the most common rice, but because of the addition of various seasonal materials, different colors will also attract people's appetite.

On the day of long summer, southerners like to mix white rice with five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans to cook "five-color rice", commonly known as "long summer rice". Black rice is also great food in the long summer. The production of black rice is actually very simple: first, mash the black leaves, soak them in cold water, then remove the dregs, then soak the washed glutinous rice in the black leaf juice, soak the glutinous rice to make it black, then steam it in an iron pan, and finally sprinkle some sugar, and you're done. It is said that this custom originated from Sun Bin, a famous strategist in the Warring States Period.

5. Try new things: Many places have the custom of "trying new things in the long summer". People taste seasonal food for health and good luck. Such as eating cherries, buds, green beans, garlic sprouts, amaranth, green plums and other newly listed fruits and vegetables. Eat more fruits and vegetables.