What are the customs of the great summer

1, send the god of pestilence

Three volts of summer days, the red sun, but also the outbreak of plague and disease. In the past, people used to hold rituals and prayers on riverboats, rowing the boat to a far, far away place to show that the god of pestilence is sent away, and there is no trace of any disease.

The first day of June, Henan, Jiaodong (such as Yantai) and other places have a "small year" custom, because at this time wheat and other crops have been harvested, newly planted Zhuangjia also because of the temperature, humidity rise and crazy, 15 days after the summer heat for the Autumn Festival, has been close to the golden autumn harvest season, the farmers are looking forward to the year, wishing for a good harvest of the good mood! The festival is also a time when rituals related to the harvest are prevalent.

2, send "summer boat"

Send "summer boat" is the coastal areas of zhejiang, especially taizhou a lot of fishing villages have a folk tradition, its meaning is to put the "five saints". The significance is to send the "five saints" out to sea, send summer to keep the people safe. Send "big summer boat", accompanied by colorful folk performances.

3, sun ginger

Fujingang originated in Shanxi, Henan and other places in China, three days when people will be sliced ginger or juice and brown sugar stirred together, packed into containers covered with gauze, drying in the sun. After fully blended and consumed, it has a miraculous effect on the old cold stomach, windy cough, etc., and has the effect of warmth and health care.

4, drink voltaic tea

Voltaic tea, as the name suggests, is the three voltaic days to drink tea. Free supply of ambrosia tea time is generally from the beginning of June to the end of August in the lunar calendar. This tea, which is made from more than 10 herbs such as honeysuckle, Xia Gu Cao and licorice, has a cooling effect to dispel the summer heat. In ancient times, there was a custom in many rural areas that the village people would put some tea in the pavilion at the entrance of the village and give it to passers-by for free. Nowadays, such pavilions are rarely seen, but in Wenzhou, this centuries-old custom has been preserved. Each pavilion has a person to cook tea all day to ensure the supply. This tea has a special name in Wenzhou, called "Fu Cha".

5, burn incense

Voltaic incense, the highest temperatures in the summer festival, the fastest-growing crops, most of the areas of drought, flooding, windstorms are also the most frequent, harvesting and planting, drought drainage and flooding prevention and field management is a very heavy task; therefore, the people burn incense to pray for good luck, and pray for wind and rain, the harvest; there is also a saying close to the Chinese medicine of moxibustion!

6, drink summer sheep

Northern China in the summer this day drink summer sheep (i.e., drink mutton soup) custom. After intense summer labor, people are very tired, should take a good rest. So the whole family gets together and each person eats a fragrant new wheat bun and drinks a bowl of flavorful mutton soup.

7, fighting crickets

Da summer is the countryside, field crickets most of the season, many parts of China people have tea after dinner cricket fighting custom for fun. Adults take children to the fields to catch crickets, and then go under a tree to play a fun game of cricket fighting.

8. Half-Year Festival

The 15th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar is the halfway point of the year, which coincides with the Great Summer Festival, and is called the "Half-Year Festival". On this day, after worshipping the gods, families would gather together to eat "half year round". The half-year rounds are made of glutinous rice ground into flour and rolled with red flour, and most of them are boiled into sweets to be savored, symbolizing reunion and sweetness.

9, eat grass

Many places in Guangdong in the summer season have "eat grass" custom. Fairy grass, also known as cool powder grass, fairy grass, Labiatae cactus genus herb, is an important medicinal and food plant resources. Because of its magical effect of summer heat, known as "immortal grass". The dried stems and leaves can be made into roasted fairy grass, which is called Liang Fan in Guangdong, a dessert to reduce summer heat.

Expanded Trivia: What are the characteristics of the summer heat?

The Great Summer Festival is in the summer of the four seasons of the year, the Great Summer is one of the twenty-four seasons, is the hottest period of the whole summer, this stage of the crops grow faster, but there are also some of the drought, floods, and other disasters, the Great Summer period of the time difference between day and night, the daytime time is usually 13 hours, and at night it is 11 hours, it is very suitable for late to bed and early to get up, it is the sunshine of the most The time of the year is the most sunny.

In China, north of South China, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and other areas, such as Suzhou, Zhejiang, Gan and other areas in the hot and rainy season, drops of rain like gold. There are "small summer rain like silver, summer rain like gold", "Voli rain, hoard more rice", "Voli rain abundance, grain abundance cotton abundance", "Voli not subject to drought, a mu increase of one quintal". A mu increase of one quintal". Just as the left river water poem: "Sun Sheng three volts of summer smoked, sitting idle annoyance quiet in the flies and mosquitoes. Even if the war drums rise in the clouds, arrows shoot the lotus pond if sprinkled with gold." If there is cloudy rain before or after the summer vacation, it is a sign that there will be a lot of rain in the future. Farmer's proverbs have "big summer rain, rain, autumn water enough; big summer no rain less rain, eat water worry" said.

While in China's western region of South China, although the high temperature is also the most frequent, but the rain is the most abundant, thunderstorms are most common, is the season of the most thunderstorms. There is a proverb here that says, "No half-drops in the east flash, and not enough to go away in the west." It means that in the summer afternoon, if the lightning appears in the east, the rain will not come down here, and if the lightning is in the west, the rain will come soon, and it will be too late to avoid it.

Based on the heat of the summer heat and not hot, there are a lot of predictions of the late weather proverbs: such as short-term prediction of the "summer heat, the field rest; summer cool, full of water ponds"; medium-term prediction of the "summer heat, after the fall cool"; long-term prediction of the "The summer is hot, no frost for four months", "The summer is not hot, the winter is not cold", "The summer is not hot to rotten winter" and so on.

When it comes to the time of the Great Summer Season the biggest feature is the high temperature and heat, humidity and rain. The Great Summer is the twelfth of the twenty-four solar terms, which falls on July 22-24 on the Gregorian calendar and is the hottest period of the year. During the summer season, we should try to avoid going out in the hot weather, not outdoor physical exercise, the amount of exercise should not be too large, we should often open the windows to ventilate, to prevent heatstroke, and eat more vegetables and fruits that have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving heatstroke, so that it is very helpful to our health.

Other notes: what are the taboos of the summer?

1, during the summer, the content of ultraviolet light in daylight is higher, especially at noon when direct sunlight, and outdoor temperatures are high, should try to avoid prolonged exposure to the outdoors, so as not to be harmed by ultraviolet light and heat stroke.

2, during the summer, if you want to go out, be sure to prepare a sun hat or umbrella, wear sunglasses, and the appropriate use of sunscreen, and to avoid activities in the heat to avoid heat stroke.

3, in the arrangement of labor or physical exercise, to avoid the scorching sun, and pay attention to strengthen the protection, especially the elderly, its organs function decline, the body contains less water than young people, so the hot weather is more harmful to the elderly.