What is the custom in Wenzhou?

Eating noodles on the summer solstice: Eating noodles on the summer solstice is an important custom in many areas. There is a saying among the people: "Eating noodles on the solstice will shorten the day".

Three fresh foods: The third Geng Day after long summer will enter the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, people often lose appetite, and then lose weight. This is the so-called "dry summer". At this time, there is a saying among the people that eating three fresh foods aims at nourishing in summer.

3. Drinking tea: Tea is a kind of tea fried with bamboo leaves, betel nuts and lotus leaves. , can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. Whenever the solstice of summer comes, there are good people who set up stalls on the roadside, at the bridge head and under the pavilion to provide free tea.

4, insert fragrant balls: also known as "point grapefruit lights." July 30th of the lunar calendar is said to be the birthday of the Tibetan king. At this time, the new pomelo came on the market. There is a custom in Wenzhou that grapefruit lanterns are hung under the eaves or on the balcony. The next day, I cut open the whole family and enjoyed it. I thought it would be a blessing to avoid disasters.

5, sugar Venus: pomegranate, Wenzhou dialect is called "Venus". Sugar apricot is boiled with white sugar and pressed with pomegranate-shaped mold. "Daughters get married and share sugar apricots" is a characteristic folk custom in Wenzhou in the old days. On that day, the man's family presented large and small candied apricots and colored fluffy balls to the woman's family, hoping that the newlyweds would be as blessed as pomegranates.