What are the customs of summer solstice in different places

Summer solstice is one of the twenty-four solar terms, on June 21st or 22nd in the Gregorian calendar every year. Summer solstice this day, the sun runs to 90 degrees of yellow longitude (in Gemini), the sun directly on the ground to the northernmost point of the year, almost directly to the Tropic of Cancer, at this time, the northern hemisphere sunshine time is the longest. So how much do you know about the summer solstice customs around you? Below, understand the vision editorial to organize the summer solstice customs of each place, welcome to read.

Summer solstice? avoid rain?

Summer solstice? The custom of avoiding rain is actually a kind of climatic period. The custom, in fact, is a climate expectation. In ancient times, farmers divided the summer solstice half-month into the first time (the first three days), the second time (the middle five days) and the end of the time (after seven days), farmers are most afraid of? The farmer's greatest fear is that it will rain in the middle of the month. and? Thunder and rain at the end of the day. (Qingjialu). These superstitious customs reflect the fact that ancient farmers? The helplessness of the farmers who relied on the sky for their food. The helplessness of the situation, because the summer solstice half-month thunder and rain, mostly with the characteristics of the rain, on the growth of crops more harm than good; and the summer solstice half-month ticket, it is the scorching hot summer season, the crops began to need water, so farmers are looking forward to the sub-dragon day (i.e., the twentieth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar) later, the God in a timely manner to rain. To this day, many rural villages in China still circulate such weather proverbs:? Twenty minutes dragon twenty-one rain, stone cracks are rice. Before and after the summer, is also a busy farming time, the north of wheat harvest, playing field, grain harvest, the south is planting rice transplanting, as for fishing activities, in all parts of the country are very active.

Summer Solstice Resistance and Resistance

Resistance and Resistance? is a seasonal disease, mainly from the weather forecast of summer heat and physical weakness. Ancient prevention of resistance to summer is also generally divided into two stages, the first stage from ? The first phase started at the beginning of summer. Beginning of this period of time, there are many customs, such as Shanghai people have the custom of eating tea eggs on the day of summer; the second stage is from the beginning of summer, about? Summer Solstice Resistance and Resistance to Summer? , all over the world have some? Eat? Customs, the recent Hu Pu'an in the "Yizheng times and records" recorded that: "The summer solstice festival, people research peas. Summer solstice festival, people research pea powder, stop sugar cane frost for cake, gift relatives, mixed with peach and apricot flower red fruit, said the food is not resistance to summer.

Jinhua region, Zhejiang, the sacrifice of Tian Gong, Tianwu customs

In the summer solstice festival, Jinhua region, Zhejiang, the sacrifice of Tian Gong, Tianwu customs, that is, sacrificing the land god, praying for a good agricultural harvest. To prevent pests from occurring summer solstice festival. Summer solstice **** fifteen days, of which three days on the time, two times five days, the end of seven days, when the most afraid of rain. And in the drought in the north is popular rain customs, mainly the capital for rain, dragon lanterns for rain, etc., pray for wind and rain. However, when the rain is too much later, people and the use of witchcraft to stop the rain, such as folk paper cuttings in the sweeping woman is to stop the rain witchcraft. In some places, it was originally a witchcraft stand-in, but also worshiped the god of rain and sunshine. In the past, on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month, the god Erlang, the second son of Li Bing, was also worshipped, because the people worshiped him as the god of water, in order to pray for wind and rain. When the sky is dry, ask Erlang Shen to send rain; when it rains a lot, ask Erlang Shen to clear the sky. There were also many taboos at that time.

Shandong Customs

Summer Solstice is the earliest festival in China. Before the Qing Dynasty, the whole country took a day off on the summer solstice, and went home to reunite with relatives and drink. The Book of Rites also records the apparent phenomenon of nature in relation to the summer solstice: ? The summer solstice arrives, the antlers unravel, the cicadas begin to chirp, the half-summers are born, and the hibiscus flourishes. It means that at this time of the year, antlers begin to fall off, cicadas begin to chirp, and the two plants, Hibiscus, gradually flourish and blossom. From the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the summer solstice is the most vigorous Yang Qi season, health should be in line with the characteristics of the summer Yang Sheng outside, pay attention to the protection of Yang Qi, focusing on a? Long? The word "long".

Summer solstice this day in Shandong commonly eat cold noodles, commonly known as water noodles, there? Winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles? The proverb. Cold noodles Yantai Laiyang area on the summer solstice recommended new wheat, Huang County (now Yantai Longkou City) around the new wheat grains to eat, children with wheat straw braided a delicate little strainer, in the soup one at a time to the mouth to fish, both ate wheat grains, but also a game, very much the interest of farm life.

The summer solstice in the fifth month of the lunar calendar (June 22) is the longest day of the year. The Zhou Dynasty already had a ceremony to offer sacrifices to the gods, which was thought to eliminate epidemics, bad years and hunger among the people in the country. Han Chinese custom, popular in most parts of the country. Refers to the custom of eating cold noodles (strips) on the summer solstice (one of the twenty-four solar terms). Qing? Pan Rongheng, "Imperial Capital Years and Seasons": "On this day, every family eats cold noodles. On this day, every family eats cold noodles, that is, commonly said to be over water noodles is also? Proverbs:? Winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles?

June 21st is the summer solstice of the 24 solar terms. Winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles? In the folklore of the return of the present, all with the summer solstice festival associated with food are sold well. According to the old Beijing custom, every year to the summer solstice can eat lettuce, cold noodles, because this time of the year the climate is hot, eat some cold things can reduce the fire appetizer, but not because of the cold and damage to health.

Old Beijing's summer solstice favorite fried noodles

June 21 is the twenty-fourth season of the summer solstice,? winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles? , the delicious Beijing people on the summer solstice to talk about eating noodles. In the folklore of the return of the present, all with the summer solstice festival associated with food are sold well. In accordance with the customs of the old Beijing, once a year to the summer solstice can eat lettuce, cold noodles, because this time of the year the climate is hot, eat some cold things can reduce the fire appetizer, but not because of the cold and damage to health.

The summer solstice is a very popular day for noodle shops in Beijing. Whether the noodle shop Sichuan cold noodles, dan dan noodles, braised pork noodles or fried sauce noodles, etc., a variety of noodles are very ? best-selling?

Some areas in the northwest to eat zongzi on the summer solstice in the northwest such as Shaanxi, this day to eat zongzi, and take the chrysanthemum for the ash is used to prevent wheat pests.

In the south, this day weighing people to check fat and thin. Farmers roll out thin cakes, bake them, and sandwich them with greens, bean pods, tofu, and bacon, and then eat them after making offerings to their ancestors or giving them to friends and relatives.

Some areas, this day more adult nephews and nieces to the maternal uncle's home for dinner, uncle's home must be amaranth and gourd dishes, it is said to eat amaranth, will not be chafing, eat gourd, legs will have strength. There are also to the grandmother's house to eat cured bacon, said to eat it will not be Resistance and Resistance.

Lingnan Customs

Dog meat was originally a meat staple of the Chinese, and then there was an emperor surnamed Zhao who belonged to the dog, and only then was it forbidden to eat dog meat, because to eat dog meat was to eat the emperor. During the Qing Dynasty, Manchurians were the emperors, and Manchurians didn't eat dog meat, so they couldn't ban it if they wanted to. It's just that the Chinese people later ate dog meat slowly less down, and thus eat dog meat from by the Chinese people's meat staple into a meat side dish.

Summer solstice to eat dog meat and lychee, is the Lingnan area of the people to borrow the name want to eat? Patent? People in Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangzhou and Qinzhou and Yulin in Guangxi are also very fond of eating dog meat and lychee on the summer solstice. It is said that the summer solstice dog meat and lyzi combined to eat not hot, there? The winter solstice fish raw summer solstice dog? Said, so the summer solstice to eat dog meat and lychee habits continue to this day. Summer solstice custom of eating dog meat, folk? Summer solstice dog, no road? The proverb, meaning that the summer solstice this day, many dogs were killed, there is no way to escape.

The folk saying is that dog meat is warm, great complementary energy, attribute of hot and dry, only suitable for fall and winter seasons, eating dog meat in summer will be on fire, external heat plus internal heat, the body is not good. But the summer solstice this day is an exception, the summer solstice this day ate dog meat, not only will not heat, will not cause discomfort to the body, on the contrary, it will be beneficial to the body. It is probably the reasoning of the symbiosis. Of course, the summer solstice to eat dog meat, should also be moderate, do not eat too much, so as not to cause indigestion and other gastrointestinal diseases.

Summer solstice eating dog meat why so keen? There is a local saying that eating dog meat on the summer solstice can get rid of evil spirits and ward off the plague. Eat the summer solstice dog, the west wind go around? The general idea is that as long as people eat dog meat on the summer solstice, their bodies will be able to resist the invasion of the west wind and rain, less colds, good health. It is based on this good intentions, achievements? Summer solstice dog meat? This unique folk food culture. The only difference with the folk tradition is that with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the scene of families killing dogs on the summer solstice no longer exists today. However, the habit of eating dog meat in every household is still the same, the difference only lies in the fact that more people buy and eat it than kill and eat it.

Guangdong people have always liked to eat dog meat habits, Yangjiang area is particularly. According to the relevant information, the summer solstice kill dog body, rumor has it that from the Warring States period, Qin Degong reign the following year, June heat, plague epidemic. Qin Degong will press? Dogs for the yang animal, can avoid bad luck? said, ordered his subjects to kill the dog to avoid the evil, and later formed the summer solstice to kill the dog's custom.

The folk song of "Summer Day, Eat Tonic? The ballad, also indicates that the complementary food from the beginning of the summer. Now, the residents of Lingnan region in the summer and not the habit of eating dog meat, but instead in the winter consumption of dog meat tonic. As the saying goes? Sell quilts, eat dog meat. Because dog meat in Chinese medicine is hot and dry (dog meat) hot sex, taste salty, sweet, sour; warm spleen and stomach, tonifying the kidney to help the sun, lighten the body and benefit the qi, get rid of cold and Yang.? The Materia Medica, so the traditional habits of life following the Lingnan medical characteristics of Guangdong residents in the summer to eat dog meat is how it does not make sense, and no enthusiasm, is a matter of common sense.

Today in Guangdong, people prefer to nourish cool food in the summer to avoid the heat, so residents in the summer generally pot Qing tonic cold soup, crucian carp and black bean soup, medicinal spare ribs soup, scallion and tofu soup, lentils and thin meat soup, etc., cooking red, green bean paste, millet porridge, congee, congee, white fruit porridge, cold noodles, lotus soup, tofu flower, sweet potato soup, etc., drink fungus and papaya sweetened water, cold soymilk, sugarcane water, cold tea, sour plum soup, etc., the more traditional and very sweet food. Traditional and very sweet food. And summer food more vinegar, less salt, less ginger, less garlic, taste light, to flour, lean meat, vegetables, melons and other main.

Pingyin area, the summer solstice to worship ancestors.

Volts. After the summer solstice, the third g day for the first ambush, the fourth g day for the middle ambush, the first g day after the beginning of autumn for the last ambush, collectively known as the ambush day. Volt day people lose appetite, often thinner than normal, commonly known as ? Bitter summer? Shandong, some places eat raw cucumber and hard-boiled eggs to cure? Bitter summer?

Volts this day, Shandong folk are to improve the diet, east of Jiaodong are eating noodles, Long Island folk song:? Autumn (dumplings) into the ambush noodles.? Yantai Zhaoyuan eat dumplings, Binzhou Wudi used to eat noodles, bean soup and noodle chess, Jining Zoucheng like to drink ice water, some people also go to Yishan caves to avoid the summer heat.

The Linyi area has the custom of improving the diet for cattle. The ambrosia cook wheat kernel soup for cattle to drink, it is said that cattle drink the body strong, can work, do not sweat. The folk song says: ? Spring cattle whip, licking cattle Han (bull), wheat kernel soup, licking cattle rice, licking cattle drink not sweat, boil to June again. After the ambush is the season to plant fall vegetables, there are? First ambush radish two ambush vegetables, three ambush can also be planted buckwheat? The proverb of the...

Eating dog to get rid of the evil body

Some places are also rumored to eat dog meat on the summer solstice. Eat dog meat can be strong body, the historical record cloud? Qin people dog compulsion, commonly referred to as the summer solstice should eat dog meat? Means that more epidemic diseases in summer, the summer solstice is suitable for eating dog meat, in order to enhance the resistance. Therefore, the custom of eating dog meat on the summer solstice has been inherited.

Summer solstice dog, no idyllic walk (nowhere to hide). Lunar summer solstice, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, has inherited hundreds of years of summer solstice eating dog to dispel evil spirits to make up for the body of this folk custom.

Summer solstice this day, in some towns in Yangjiang farmers market, the old days of pork stalls, most of the stalls hung up the dog, only a small part of the stalls pork and dog meat sold together. Local market managers said that on weekdays this farmers' market can sell more than forty heads of pork, and today is the summer solstice, as the main meat of pork on the stalls only more than ten heads of beef in the morning have not seen on the stalls, the reason is that the local people every year on the summer solstice to eat dog has been rumored to become habits. Hanging pig's head, selling dog meat?

Yangjiang people on the summer solstice to eat dog why so keen? There is a local saying that eating dog meat on the summer solstice can get rid of evil spirits and ward off the plague, etc.? Eat the summer solstice dog, the west wind go around? The general idea is that as long as people eat dog meat on the summer solstice, their bodies will be able to resist the invasion of the west wind and rain, less colds, good health. It is based on this good intentions, achievements? Summer solstice dog meat? This unique folk food culture.

The only difference with the folk tradition is that with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the sight of families killing dogs on the summer solstice no longer exists today. However, the habit of eating dog meat in every household remains the same, the difference only lies in buying and eating more than killing and eating. The local people said that on weekdays the business is not good dog meat store, the summer solstice day can earn a full house, the price of dog meat also followed a sharp rise.

Guangdong people have always liked to eat dog meat habits, Yangjiang area is particularly. According to relevant information, the summer solstice to kill the dog to make up for the body, rumored to have originated in the Warring States period, the next year of the reign of the Duke of Qin De, June heat, plague epidemic. Qin Degong will press? Dogs for the yang animal, can avoid bad luck? said, ordered his subjects to kill the dog to avoid the evil, and later formed the custom of killing the dog on the summer solstice. Summer Day, eat tonic food? The ballad, also indicates that the complementary food from the beginning of the summer.