What are the customs of the Great Summer Festival

What are the customs of the summer season 24 festival season summer folk traditional activities

1, summer moon cruise

Da summer period, the ancients are by no means alone in the house, do "house man" "housewife", on the contrary, but such a hot summer season as a holiday. The summer season as a festival to pass. The "Summer Moon Cruise" was one of the folk customs at that time. In the old days, every June, the ladies and gentlemen gathered.

2, drink summer sheep

"Drinking summer sheep" is the summer season to drink mutton soup, is popular in the old revolutionary area of south central Shandong Yimeng mountainous area and southwest Lu summer customs. Among them, Shandong Shanxian sheep soup is the most famous. The summer of the sheep soup soup, delicious, nutritious, with the spleen and qi, warm tonic kidney yang good effect, become a nutritious and delicious nourishment on the people's table.

3, eat noodles

Da summer to, Linyi city and countryside on the summer "drink summer goat" (that is, drink mutton soup) or eat noodles traditional custom. On this day, every family married off the daughter and married son to go back to their parents' home, kill a sheep, make a pot of cold noodles, the whole family together joyfully drink lamb soup, eat noodles, lively over the summer.

4, drinking tea

Voltaic tea, as the name suggests, is a three-voltaic day to drink tea. Free supply of ambrosia tea time generally from the beginning of June to the end of August of the lunar calendar. This kind of tea boiled by honeysuckle, Xia Gu Cao, licorice and so on more than ten flavors of Chinese herbs, has a cooling effect to dispel the summer heat. In ancient times, there was a custom in many places in the countryside 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.

5, fried grass tofu

The summer festival is coming, Zhejiang Wenzhou people have fried grass tofu custom. Green grass tofu refers to the grass, licorice, Xiaku Cao and chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and other herbs fried into the shape of tofu, cooled and eaten, cool, detoxification, thirst. In the past, many families were able to make their own food.

6, send the plague god

Three volts of summer days, the hot 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 that there is no trace of all diseases.

7, the beach over the summer

Shenzhen people spend the hot summer days at the beach. In the summer sunscreen is very important, not only is the love of beauty and fear of tanning women, long exposure to the sun's men are also the same need for sunscreen, especially to go to the beach or water parks, the more need to use sunscreen, and from time to time to reapply sunscreen.

8, appreciate the lotus

Da summer in June is also known as "lotus month", June 24, rumored to be the lotus birthday, so folk have the custom of appreciating the lotus. Jiangsu Changshu, Tongzhou, Wu County and other places, is a famous place to see the lotus, the lotus cool, many boats, the scene is quite spectacular.

9, the summer to eat children's chicken

Xiangzhong, Xiangbei have "summer to eat children's chicken" method of tonic. The child chicken refers to will not ring, rearing period in three months weight to 1 - 1.5 pounds, has not been bred with a small rooster.

Compared with older chickens, the soup they make is less greasy and the protein is more easily absorbed, and the growth hormone in their bodies is said to have a good tonic effect on growing children.

10, sun ginger

The ginger originated in Shanxi, China, Henan and other places, people will be sliced ginger or juice and brown sugar stirred together, into the container 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.

11, eat lychee

Da summer, according to Putian custom every family to eat lychee, called "over the summer". Folk legend has it that eating lychee on the day of the summer, the nutritional value and eat ginseng as high. Lychee contains glucose and a variety of vitamins, rich in nutritional value, so eat fresh lychee can nourish the body. First fresh lychee immersed in cold well water, the moment of summer will be taken out to taste. This time to eat lychee, the most pleasant, the most nourishing.

12, eat rice bad

Putian people in Fujian in the summer also eat rice bad custom. The rice is mixed with white rice and let it ferment, through the ripe into the lees; to the day of the summer, it is cut into pieces, add some brown sugar to cook, it is said to be a "great tonic".

13, eat pineapple

China's Taiwan has the custom of eating pineapple, pineapple and the pronunciation of the Minnan language and "wanglai" the same, so it is used to pray for peace and good luck, business prosperity.

14, eat "half a year round"

In addition, because the lunar calendar June 15 is half of the year, folk talk about "half a year", this day after worshiping the gods, the whole family will eat "half a year round! The family will eat "half year round" together after worshipping the gods on this day. The half-year round is made of glutinous rice ground into powder and then rolled with red flour, and the family savors the sweet food, symbolizing reunion and sweetness.

15, eat "immortal grass"

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating immortal grass" during the summer. Proverbs say "June summer to eat grass, live like an immortal will not be old", grass jelly and roasted grass is also common in Xiamen people cool summer products.

16, send big summer boat

Da summer season, Zhejiang Taizhou coastal send "big summer boat" activities. Fishermen take turns to carry the "summer boat" in the street marching, drums and horns, firecrackers, the street on both sides of the crowd standing full of prayers. "The boat is then transported to the pier for a series of blessing ceremonies. Afterwards, this "big summer boat" was pulled out of the fishing harbor by the fishing boat, lit on the sea, and went with the water, so as to bless people with a good harvest, life and peace.

What fruits to eat in the summer

Watermelon: is the most important fruit in summer, contains a lot of water, is described as a "natural drink", and rich in nutrients, and has become the first choice of many people to eliminate the heat of the fruit. Watermelon taste sweet and cold, there is a summer in addition to the annoyance, thirst and diuretic effect, there is a "natural white tiger soup," said. People suffering from water retention can eat more, diuretic, weak, excessive menstruation, indigestion of chronic gastritis should not eat more. Eat more hurt spleen and stomach, but also pay attention to watermelon spoiled can not eat, easy to cause acute gastroenteritis.

Apples: apples are known as the king of fruits and are sought after all year round. Eating apples can both lose weight and help digestion. Apples contain a variety of vitamins, minerals, sugars, fats and so on. It is rich in sugar and potassium salt plug, has the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst, but also can relieve mental fatigue. The general population can eat, but because apples are rich in sugar and potassium salts, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, kidney disease, diabetes, people should not eat more.