Customs of the beginning of summer

Customs of the summer:

1, welcome the summer

In the agricultural proverbs, there is a "summer to see the summer," the saying, which means that when the summer, summer crops to be harvested has entered into the late stage of growth, the basic situation has been determined, the harvest in the summer of this date It can be seen on the day of the summer.

2, weigh

Nowadays it is said that "the summer does not lose weight, the summer solstice in vain," but the ancients did not think so, many dynasties are considered fat for the United States, fat on behalf of the blessing. Can enter the summer, the weather is hot up people's appetite will be affected by the decline, coupled with the consumption of large, people will lose weight, thus affecting health. People set the custom of weighing in the summer.

3, hanging eggs

Ancient proverbs say: "summer chest hanging eggs, children do not Resistance to summer", Resistance to summer is also known as the bitter summer is a common disease in the summer, by the summer heat leads to the body weakness, lethargy, anorexia and so on, the child is particularly susceptible to Resistance to summer, but if the day of the summer to the child's chest hanging eggs, the child will not have to Resistance to summer, the child will not have to Resistance to summer. The child will not be able to get resistance to summer.

Adults have been in the middle of the summer, the eggs with shells boiled in water, and then soaked in cold water for a few minutes to bring down the heat of the eggs, and finally with a woven wire mesh bag on the eggs hung on the child's neck, the eggs hanging in front of the chest.

4, eat summer rice

Every summer, in some areas of the family will do a pot of "summer rice", a kind of summer food customs, the traditional summer rice will be used red beans, green beans, soybeans, black beans and green beans, these five colors of beans and rice mixed together on the pot steamed and eaten.

5, tasting new activities

Jiangnan summer customs in the so-called "see three new", is to eat some of this time to grow out of the fresh things. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the "summer to taste the new" custom. Suzhou place has "summer see three new" proverbs. "Three new" refers to the new ripe cherries, plums and wheat. People first offer these "three new" to their ancestors, and then people taste the food.