What are the special customs in today's long summer?

Today is a long summer, and the special customs in various places are introduced as follows:

First, the custom of long summer: take a large scale.

On the day of long summer, people will hang a big wooden scale on the big tree at the entrance of the village, and the scale hook will become a bench for people to sit on. Villagers will take turns sitting on stools, and people who weigh flowers will say jingles while weighing flowers. The content is: weight 87, live to 91; One hundred and fifty pounds, people from outside come to see you; The son of the champion has a fate; When the weight is ten to twenty-three, young officials will come out of the mountain.

Second, the custom of long summer: eating eggs and hanging eggs.

As the old saying goes:? Eat eggs in the long summer, stone steps on eggs. ? It means that on the day of long summer, people will eat eggs to supplement their nutrition and be strong, so that stones can be discarded. A long summer means that summer comes, the temperature rises day by day, and some people will become weak. Eating eggs means good health. According to legend, Nu Wa Niangniang told her common people that every year when she was in the long summer, she would hang an egg for her child, so that she wouldn't dare to find a child in summer. Summer heat is a disease in ancient times. Because of the hot weather, children's resistance drops, and children can easily become their habitat. Hanging colorful eggs (colorful woven bags or bags made of wool) will drive away ghosts, just like people wearing colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Third, the custom of long summer: eat long summer rice.

In the south, long summer rice is made of five ingredients with different colors. Generally, rice is the main food, and red beans, mung beans, black beans, mung beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, carrots, sausages and so on are also selected. Therefore, some people call it long summer rice? Five-color rice? It means that this year's grain harvest will enrich the people. In the north, the rice in the long summer is mainly pasta, but in the long summer, the wheat is not mature enough, so there is a custom of making and eating pasta in the long summer in the north, which means celebrating the bumper harvest. There are three kinds of pasta in long summer: summer cake, flour cake and spring rolls. ?

Fourth, the custom of long summer: Seven porridge tastes three fresh? .

People in rural areas of Zhejiang still eat in summer? Seven porridge? Seven porridge is that villagers take out their own old rice, add brown sugar and seven kinds of beans to make porridge, and then share it with everyone; Do you have it in Suzhou? See Sanxin in the long summer? Proverbs ? Sanxin? Refers to cherries, plums and wheat.