Why does Chang Xia eat eggs?

When he was a little older, he asked why Chang Xia ate eggs. It is understood that eggs are eaten in the long summer, and there is a saying in my hometown: After the long summer, farming becomes busy, so it is necessary to plant early rice, harvest wheat and eat some supplements to enhance physical fitness. In rural areas, farmers can only supplement eggs and duck eggs.

What puzzles me is that since eggs and duck eggs are eaten as a tonic, why not soak them in tea and eat them with salt instead? No matter from which angle, the nutritional value of salted eggs is not higher than that of non-salted eggs. I asked my mother, and she said it was a custom for thousands of years. I said custom always has its reason! Mom thought about it, maybe it took farmers ten days and a half to accumulate dozens of eggs. Before and after the long summer, the weather turned warmer, and the eggs and ducks could not be stored for a long time, so they had to be salted with salt water to prevent deterioration. This is just the last resort to hide eggs. Over time, it has become the custom of eating salted eggs in the long summer. Mom said that eggs and ducks don't have to be salty if they can be hidden. I think my mother's reasoning is very reasonable and convincing.

In my hometown, there is another custom besides eating salted eggs in the long summer: weighing. At noon in long summer, in my desk, young and vigorous boys set up a three-legged wooden frame in the patio. On the wooden frame, a crossbar was placed, one end of the crossbar was tied with a thick rope, a big scale was tied with the thick rope, and a big basket was hooked on the big scale. Men, women and children in the desk sit in baskets and weigh them one by one. According to adults, Chang Xia said that the purpose of weighing is to find out "summer retreat" in time, so as to take supplements in time when weight loss is found. ?

On this long summer day, there is another commandment, that is, you can't sit on the threshold. I said that I was sitting on the threshold this day, and my legs were weak and I couldn't walk every day this summer. Therefore, adults always remind children not to sit on the threshold on this day. In rural areas, especially the terraces of quadrangles, there are many thresholds. Usually, everyone is sitting on the threshold with bowls, eating and chatting, and they are used to it. When they arrive in the long summer, it is difficult to sit on the threshold. Several careful daughters-in-law put stools next to the threshold to wait for supervision, in case the in-laws and children sit on the threshold by mistake.