/kloc-What are the popular customs for 0/8 years old in summer?

There are five solar terms in summer, namely Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer and Great Summer.

In summer, from the age of 18, there are some customs, such as playing small full-length operas, sending flowers to worship the gods, transplanting rice seedlings, cooking green plums, weighing people, cooking new tea and eating fu sheep. The ancients would hold various ceremonies to spend every solar term in the whole summer.

According to records, in 1827, Xianshen Temple was built by Shengze Silk Industry in Jiangnan. A theater was specially built in the temple, and there was a balcony beside the building. The slate square under the stage can accommodate ten thousand people to watch the play.

Three days before and after Xiaoman, the Silk Industry Office sponsored and invited all classes to perform on stage. However, there is also an industry taboo in acting, that is, plays with illegitimate children and dead people cannot be staged, because "private" and "death" are homonyms for "diaosi".

The Silk Industry Office performed for three days before and after Xiaoman, and all the plays were auspicious plays repeatedly decided by the director of the Silk Industry Office, with the aim of seeking good luck.

In ancient times, it was common to pray for good luck with solar terms. As one of the 24 solar terms, Xiaoman means that summer crops such as wheat are full of milk and full of seeds. But it is not fully mature, so it is called "Xiaoman".

Among the gods of the 24 solar terms, only Xiaoman God is dressed as a "Qing Dynasty man", which probably means "man".

In the north and south of Taiwan Province Province in China, the folk festivals around Xiaoman are different. The biggest in the south is the temple and the birthday celebration of Prince Li. The northern part is the birthday of Shennong, the legendary Shennong, also known as the "king of grains".

Xiaoman Festival is said to be the birthday of the silkworm god, so on this day, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is famous for raising silkworms in China, Xiaoman Opera is very lively.

Xiaoman Opera has become a social folk activity with industry characteristics. According to legend, the Lunar New Year is the birthday of the silkworm god, and the silkworm flower lady is one of them. They want to commemorate the Silkworm Flower Lady and hope that the Silkworm Flower Lady will bless the farmers in the four townships to raise silkworms.

In ancient times, Taihu Lake Basin was the main producing area of China silk. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many silk industrial and commercial towns have emerged in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and folk customs such as offering sacrifices to silkworm gods are very popular.

In towns and villages in silk-producing areas such as Wang, Puyuan, Wangdian and Xincheng, such as Shengze and Zhenze in Jiangsu, there are shrines of silkworm gods, such as Xiancan Temple or Silkworm Emperor Temple, to worship silkworm gods and pray for a bumper harvest.

Xiaoman Festival is in early summer, when the cocoon takes shape, it is just waiting for reeling. Planting mulberry and sericulture is a traditional sideline in rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River. Silkworm is a treasure and a food source for villagers, and people are full of expectation and gratitude for it. So this festival is full of rich silk folk customs.

It's nearly May of the lunar calendar, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold ceremonies to worship the flower god on the day of mango seeds, and at the same time express their gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year.

This custom no longer exists today, but it can be seen from the 27th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin:

Those girls, either sedan chairs woven with petals and willow branches or thousands of buildings with silk brocade, are tied up with colored threads. These things are tied to every tree and every flower. Embroidered ribbons are flying in the garden and flowers are in full bloom. What's more, these people are all out of the wall, ashamed of the oriole, and can't speak for a while.

The "thousand" in the "thousand buildings" is a shield; Luo, Jing and Zhuang are all ancient flags. At the top of Luo flagpole is a yak tail flag. Jing is similar to Luo, except that it is decorated with colorful folded feathers, and the building shape is umbrella-shaped. It can be seen that the mango festival of a large family is a lively scene for the flower god to bid farewell.

Anmiao activity is a farming custom in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice.

Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

Young Dong men and women in southeastern Guizhou hold a mud festival every year before and after planting hemp.

On this day, the newlyweds, accompanied by good young men and women, collectively planted rice seedlings, played with each other while planting rice seedlings and threw mud at each other. After the activity, the results show that the person with the most mud is the most popular person.

In the south, May and June of the lunar calendar is the season when plums mature, and there is an allusion of "Plum cooking wine as a hero" in the Three Kingdoms.

Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity.

There are many solar terms customs in China, and the Dragon Boat Festival, which occurs every two years, is one of the four major folk festivals in China.

Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang", "Noon", "Zhumen" and "Five Poisons Day". The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, eating mung bean cake, cooking plums and racing dragon boats.

Summer solstice is an important solar term with many customs. According to the Book of Rites Eclipse, every summer in the Zhou Dynasty, the emperor personally led doctors or officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer, and held a grand ceremony to worship Emperor Zhu Rong.

The emperor welcomed the long summer to the southern suburbs, which was originally a sacrifice. Because the south is the seat of Zhu Rong and belongs to fire, Zhu Rong itself is Vulcan.

This welcoming ceremony has been handed down from generation to generation. The summer welcoming ceremony of the emperor was formal and grand. According to the book "The Joy of Chinese New Year", emperors in the pre-Qin period personally led hundreds of officials to hold ceremonies in the suburbs to welcome the arrival of the long summer.

The monarch and his subjects all wore scarlet robes and jade ornaments, rode red horses and scarlet cars, and even the flags of the cars were scarlet. This red ceremony to welcome summer strongly expressed the good wishes of the ancient people for a bumper harvest.

Later, the ancient custom of long summer changed. In the Ming dynasty, on the day when the long summer came, the officials in charge of ice administration in the imperial court would dig out the ice stored in the winter cellar, chop it up and give it to the officials by the emperor. In fact, it was not from the Ming Dynasty that Emperor Chang Xia sent ice cubes to ministers, but in the Song Dynasty that it became a convention and custom for Emperor Chang Xia to send ice cubes to ministers.

In order to welcome the arrival of summer, people will also hold various interesting activities. These interesting activities gradually formed many traditional customs, some of which have even been preserved to this day.

China has a vast territory, and the ancient customs of welcoming summer are different.

Some places in the south have the custom of tasting three fresh foods. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. In some places, there is a custom of eating moldy tofu in the long summer, which means that eating moldy tofu will not bring bad luck.

In some places, we must eat "seven porridge" in the summer, which is a big pot of porridge made of rice, beans and brown sugar from our neighbors. Let's share it.

In other places, eggs are eaten in the long summer. On that long summer day, children always hang an egg with a red net around their necks and eat pancakes made of taro and cauliflower. At noon, all men, women and children should be weighed, commonly known as "people".

Chang Xia said that people are divided into outdoor and indoor. Hanging scales on outdoor trees is mainly to weigh the elderly and children and check the obesity situation for one year. The balance in the house is hung on the roof beam, and the women weigh each other and talk and laugh, which becomes a boudoir game.

Cai Yun, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The wind opens an embroidered pavilion to raise Luo clothes, not to play. Just to hang the weight, put it on the scale, weigh the swallows, and fertilize the ring. "

In northern China, long summer is the season for wheat to appear. Therefore, it is a custom to make pasta in summer in most parts of the north to celebrate the wheat harvest. Pasta in long summer mainly includes summer cakes, flour cakes and spring rolls.

China has always been agriculture-oriented, and transplanting rice seedlings in spring is the beginning of millet. Weeding and ploughing in summer are also important agricultural activities, otherwise it is difficult to have a good harvest in autumn and winter storage, so all previous dynasties have attached great importance to this solar term.

In summer, people mainly worship the gods and enjoy the first time, taste new festivals, convene people and make tea. Taste the new, that is, taste the freshness of the season, such as summer wheat ears, cauliflower, cherry, plum, green plum and so on. First invite the immortal ancestors to enjoy it, and then relatives, friends and neighbors give gifts to each other.

Cooking new tea in the long summer is a custom since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it is actually a folk tea art competition. Every family chooses tea, mixes the auxiliary materials, draws running water and cooks it in the furnace. Tea is also mixed with jasmine, cinnamon, rose, sandalwood and Su Xing. Give each other and taste each other with beautiful fruits.

Some wealthy families also take this opportunity to compete for beauty, holding tea in famous porcelain tea sets, carving fruits into various shapes, decorating them with gold foil and offering them in tea trays. Scholars will hold a "tea party", enjoy tea and fruit, and rhyme poems to celebrate.

Today, there are still some places where "Long Summer Eggs", snails and "Five Tiger Dan" are popular: red dates, black dates, walnuts, longan and litchi, all of which are the remains of long summer tasting new ancient styles.

In the midsummer solar terms, there are folk sayings that "a radish can grow buckwheat when its head touches the ground, and buckwheat can grow when its feet touch the ground", "jiaozi can grow buckwheat when its head touches the ground, and pancakes can spread eggs when its feet touch the ground". These are all about light diet in summer.

Dog days are the days with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry weather in a year, and there are "dog days" in a year. It is at this time that the people say "bitter summer".

When the wheat harvest is less than a month, every household is in Man Cang, and because people are very tired and have a bad appetite every dog days, jiaozi is a good appetizer in traditional food, so people take this opportunity to eat a rare sumptuous meal.

At least since the Three Kingdoms period, it has been a custom to eat pasta in rainy days. According to Wei Chunqiu, in the Three Kingdoms period, metaphysical scholars "ate soup cakes in the sun, wiped their sweat with towels, and covered their faces with Jiao Ran", and people realized that fair skin was naturally white, not covered with powder. The "soup cake" here is hot soup noodles.

Zong Ba, a scholar from the Southern Liang Dynasty, recorded in the Chronicle of Jingchu Dream: "The soup cake turns pale in June, which is called evil." May of the lunar calendar is an "evil month", the weather is humid and sultry, mosquitoes breed, and infectious diseases are prevalent; June also touches the edge of the evil month, so it should also be "evil". Of course this is superstition, but eating pasta in rainy days is really good for your health.

Fukui people have poor appetite and are often thinner than usual, commonly known as bitter summer. Some places in Shandong eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, and eat eggs in the morning without eating other foods.

The custom of Xuzhou people eating mutton in ambush can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period, and there is a saying among the people that "Pengcheng has no prescription for too much medicine, and a bowl of soup sleeps sheep". Xuzhou people love to eat Fuyang, which is nothing more than a local folk song: pick up girls on June 6 and make mutton soup with new wheat cakes. The custom of eating noodles in Fukui began at least in the Three Kingdoms period.

The folklore of summer solar terms is mainly reflected in eating. There are two kinds of folk food customs in this season: one is to eat cold food to cool off the heat. For example, there is a proverb in southeastern Guangdong: "Eat fairy grass in the midsummer of June, live like a fairy, and never get old."

In Taiwan Province Province, China, there is a custom of eating pineapple in summer, because pineapple is the best in this season and has the function of reducing fire.

On the contrary, people in some places are used to eating hot food in summer. For example, people in Putian, Fujian want to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains to "escape the heat".

There is a traditional tonic method in central Hunan and northern Hunan, which is to eat chickens in summer. Southeast Hunan also has the custom of eating ginger in summer. "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't require a doctor to prescribe."