Summer solar terms custom

The customs of summer solar terms are: eating longan with porridge and putting on river lanterns.

1, eat longan with porridge. The living custom of old Fuzhou is to eat longan with porridge in summer, because the weather in summer is hot and the human body consumes a lot of calories. Eating longan can supplement calories. The older generation ate a bowl of longan and ate it with porridge.

In addition, another food that old Fuzhou eats in summer is white meatballs. White meatballs are actually dumplings. The method is simple. Knead glutinous rice flour into small particles, cook soup and add some sugar, which is sweet and can not only supplement carbohydrates, but also relieve greasy mouth in summer.

2, put the river lights. In summer, there is a folk custom of putting out river lanterns, also called "lotus lanterns". They were put in rivers, lakes and seas on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival and let them float freely, mainly to drive away bad luck and ferry drowning ghosts in the water.

A passage in Hong Xiao's Biography of Hulan River is a good footnote to this custom: "July 15th is Ghost Festival; You damn fool can't keep alive, and it's hard to wander in hell. They want to support themselves, but they can't find the direction. On this day, the dead fool holds the river lantern and has to support it for a lifetime. "

Agricultural activities during summer festivals;

In summer, most parts of southern China are in the busy season of harvesting mid-season rice. Generally, during the summer solar term, the sunshine in South China is still abundant. Except for the western part of South China, there are not many rainy days, which is beneficial to mid-season rice cutting cotton and spitting. During the summer season, fruits and crops in most areas of China gradually entered the mature stage, and farmers stepped up their picking, seized the farming season, and carried out field management such as rice fertilization and weeding.

"The summer valley is getting yellow, be careful of the strong wind." After summer, the temperature difference between day and night increases. Because the night is cold and the day is warm, the nutrients absorbed by the crops during the day are stored at night, so the crops mature quickly. "The fields change overnight in summer", "There is no valley for three days in summer", "Three Dynasties of rice in summer" and "Summer rice is full of fields, and everyone repairs warehouses", all of which indicate that the crops will be harvested soon after the summer solar term.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Shu.