What are the implications and traditions of the long summer solar terms?

The footsteps of summer are approaching. Long summer is the seventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, the first solar term in summer, and an important solar term marking the peak season of all things. Many people don't know the significance and tradition of the Daochang Summer Festival, so I'll introduce it to you today.

The meaning and tradition of long summer solar terms.

The moral of the long summer solar term is to officially enter summer, when not only the temperature starts to rise, but also the rainfall begins to increase, and crops enter a vigorous growth stage. There are many traditional customs of solar terms in long summer. Among them, long summer needs to eat long summer eggs, which helps to improve children's appetite. Long Xia also has a tradition of calling people names, saying auspicious words while calling people names. There are new customs, seasonal food and so on.

The arrival of the long summer solar term means the formal entry into summer. Long summer is one of the 24 solar terms, and the solar term of long summer falls on May 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The solar term "Long Summer" was established at the end of the Warring States Period, which indicates that the weather is about to get hot, the rain will increase and the crops will grow sturdily. There are many traditional customs of solar terms in long summer. According to legend, in ancient times, the reigning emperor often held sacrificial activities in the long summer to look forward to a bumper harvest.

Chang Xia also wants to eat some traditional food. Making lean meat, peas and other ingredients into "long summer soup" means removing water. Long summer custom long summer eggs, after eating, also help to improve children's appetite. In the old Long Summer Festival, red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and other five-color beans were mixed with white rice to make "five-color rice", which was called long summer rice. At present, some families in urban and rural areas in Ningbo still retain this ancient style, but the ingredients of long summer rice have been replaced by five other foods: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, and bacon or bacon, which is called five kinds of rice.