Interesting Folk Customs of Xiao Xiaosu

Interesting Folk Customs of Xiao Xiaoshen are as follows:

1. Eating New. In order to celebrate the harvest, farmers would grind the harvested rice and cook it into rice to offer it to the gods of the grains and ancestors in the hope that it would continue to produce a good harvest in the coming year. On this day, everyone tastes new rice, drinks new wine, and eats fresh fruits and vegetables, which is called "eating the new".

2, dumplings and noodles. As the saying goes, "the first ambush dumplings and two ambush noodles", after the arrival of the summer, the three ambush days are about to open. And the ambush has the meaning of bitter summer, when the weather is hot and dry, people are prone to laziness, loss of appetite, and eating dumplings can play the appetizer to relieve cravings, nourishing the meaning of the ambush day people will use the just harvested wheat grinding into the noodles and wrapped dumplings. As for the custom of eating noodles on the day of the ambush, as early as the Three Kingdoms has emerged, the ambush eating noodles eat "water" and "fried noodles", that is, the flour will be fried in a pot, and then add water and sugar to eat.

3, sunshine red and green. Folk "June 6, sunshine red and green," said the custom as early as the Tang Dynasty has arisen, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong to retrieve the scriptures, on the way back to the sea accidentally fell, the scriptures were wet, they will be the scriptures to pick up the sun, and the day just for the June 6, and since then, the custom has been passed down. The so-called "red and green" refers to colorful clothing. Small summer festival when the weather is hot, so people will be all kinds of clothes out to dry, so you can play sterilization, in addition to the effect of moldy smell.