What are the customs of long summer and long summer?

Long summer is one of the 24 solar terms. It is understood that the customs of long summer are: 1, eating long summer eggs; 2. Eat long summer rice; 3. Chang Xia is a person; 4. Welcome ceremony in summer.

What are the customs in the long summer?

1, eat long summer eggs

On the day of long summer, a pot of eggs and duck eggs will be cooked at home, and the cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs will be hung on the child's chest to escape the heat. Some long-summer eggs are not only boiled with tea leaves and walnut shells, but also boiled with "Qijia tea" to make "tea eggs". After cooking, adults will give each child one.

Step 2 eat long summer rice

Eating long summer meals in long summer is mostly a southern food custom, and most of them are southern food customs. 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".

3. Long Xia said people.

The custom of "calling people" on the day of long summer is mainly popular in southern China. It is said that after Chang Xia weighed himself on this day, he was not afraid of the hot summer and refused to lose weight, otherwise he would be troubled by the disease.

4. Summer welcoming ceremony

Long summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of summer. In ancient times, on this long summer day, kings would wear scarlet ceremonial clothes and jade ornaments, and sit on red horses and scarlet cars to hold welcoming ceremonies.