Significance and Play of Egg Beating in Long Summer

1, the meaning of egg-breaking activities

On the Long Summer Festival, adults weave egg covers with silk thread, put boiled eggs and duck eggs and hang them around children's necks. Summer rope is a long-lived thread, which is tied to the child's wrist with five-color silk thread to pray for disaster relief, summer heat relief and treatment to prevent summer needle. Every year, I eat eggs in the long summer and take them to school with colorful net bags.

Children beat eggs for fun, and the eggshell is strong but not broken to win.

There are places where children are tied with colored silk thread, which is called "long summer rope".

In fact, the custom of "fighting for eggs in the long summer" has a long history. There is a proverb about the long summer: "If there is an egg on the chest in the long summer, the child will not be in the summer". "According to legend, since the day of long summer, the weather is sunny and warm, and it is getting hotter. Many people, especially children, will feel tired and weak, and their appetite will gradually decrease, which is called' summer'. The ancients thought that eggs were round and symbolized the perfection of life. Eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer and stand the test of' summer'.

2, the game of playing eggs

Beating eggs means that after eggs and duck eggs are cooked, the head of the egg collides with the tail of the egg until one side hits the eggshell. Finally, the "egg king" wins, and the broken eggs can be eaten publicly. I feel silly when I think about it now, but I was really happy at that time. Perhaps it is the happiness that children can't understand and enjoy now.

On the Long Summer Festival, adults weave egg covers with silk thread, put boiled eggs and duck eggs and hang them around children's necks. Summer rope is a long-lived thread, which is tied to the child's wrist with five-color silk thread to pray for disaster relief, summer heat relief and treatment to prevent summer needle. Every year, I eat eggs in the long summer and take them to school with colorful net bags.