The origin of weighing in long summer.

There is a saying among the people that "people are called in the long summer, and they laugh on the beam." .

On this day, every household should hang a big scale, and the whole family, old and young, should weigh themselves. I will weigh it again on the day I arrive in beginning of autumn, so that I can know whether I have lost or gained weight from "Changxia" to "beginning of autumn", but it is not the same as the purpose of netizens who want to lose weight. The ancients implied that after weighing on this day, they were not afraid of the hot summer and did not lose weight, which placed people's good wishes for health. Hang a big scale on the beam after eating the long summer meal. Adults hold the scale hook with both hands and weigh their feet in the air. Children sit on the laundry basket or stool with their feet down and weigh themselves by hanging them on the scale hook, which means that they can avoid summer by weighing themselves in the long summer.

Behind the custom of "weighing people" in the long summer is that people don't want to lose weight in summer. There is an old saying among the people that "a thousand supplements are not as good as long summer", which also shows the importance of long summer supplements. Only by adjusting eating habits, eating more nutritious seasonal ingredients in early summer, doing some outdoor exercises properly, enhancing cardiopulmonary function and accumulating physical strength and nutrition can we bid farewell to "bitter summer".