What are the customs of summer solar terms?

1. Eating Summer Sheep: "Eating Summer Sheep" is a traditional custom in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu in summer. After summer, just after the third summer, and before the autumn harvest, farmers who have been busy for half a year will eat summer sheep in groups of three or five households and seven or eight households. At this time, the little goat who grew up drinking mountain spring water has been eating grass for several months, and it is tender and fragrant. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a saying among the local people that "Yang Yi Bowl of Soup does not need a doctor to open it." Xuzhou people love to eat summer sheep, which is nothing more than a local folk song: "Pick up the girl on June 6 and make new wheat cake mutton soup."

2. Novelty of food: There are many folk places that have the custom of "novelty of food" in midsummer. Farmers will cook with new rice, worship the grain gods and ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest in autumn. Then people happily taste new wine and so on. In some places, the newly harvested wheat is fried, then ground into flour and eaten with water and sugar. This way of eating, as early as the Han Dynasty, was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can "clear away heat and stop diarrhea and strengthen the intestines".

3. Fasting: The fasting day of Miao people in Xiangxi is from the day before the summer heat to the day after the summer heat every year. During this period, chickens, ducks, fish, turtles, crabs and other things are fasting. It is said that eating by mistake will bring disaster, but pigs, beef and mutton can still be eaten.