What are the folk activities of Rixia?

The folk activities of the summer are the ceremony of welcoming the summer, tasting new activities, fighting egg game, the summer scale people.

1, welcome summer ceremony?

The word "summer" in the Chinese character "立夏" means "big", which means that the plants sown in the spring have already grown up. On a deeper level, the twenty-four solar terms reflect the changes of the four seasons "qi", qi changes related to the natural rhythmic changes, the summer yang qi grows, all things with the rise of yang qi and thrive. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the rituals and customs of the beginning of summer. On the day of the first summer, ancient people had a ceremony to welcome the summer.

2, tasting new activities?

In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, there is a "summer tasted new" custom. Suzhou place has "summer see three new" proverbs. The "three new" refers to the new ripe cherries, plums and wheat. People first worship their ancestors with these "three new", and then people taste them.

At the same time, Suzhou summer also eat sea snails, gluten, white bamboo shoots, chestnuts, salted duck eggs, green fava beans, the hotels on the day of the summer of the old customers into the store gift of wine, shochu, do not take a penny, and therefore also called the summer of the "feed festival".

3, egg game?

"Rixia eggs, dumped in the street", fighting eggs is usually a game for children. To use cooked eggs, usually with white water with shells boiled whole eggs (shells can not be broken), by the cold water soaked, and then loaded with colorful silk thread or floss woven into the mesh pocket, let the child hang on the neck.

The rules of the egg fight are quite simple, to put it bluntly is "harder than whose eggshells": we each hold an egg, pointed for the head, round for the tail, the head of the egg hit the head of the egg, the tail of the egg hit the tail of the egg, one by one, fight the past, fight the shell of the breakthroughs, admit defeat, and then eat the egg, and the last to stay in that the fight does not break the strongest, was honored as the "Egg King". "Egg King". As to why fight the egg, the folk saying is: "summer chest hanging egg, the villain resistance summer difficult".

4, Li Xia scale people?

There is a custom of weighing people in the summer after lunch. People in the village entrance or in the door hanging up a large wooden scale, scale hook hanging a stool, we take turns to sit on the stool above the scale people. The weigher will play the weighing flower on one side and speak auspicious words on the other. The Lixia weigher will bring good fortune to the Adou, and people also pray to God to bring them good luck.

Reference to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia - Lixia