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The custom of solar terms and weighing.

The solar term with weighing custom is long summer.

There is a traditional custom of weighing in the long summer. Long summer calls people, hanging beams and laughing. In the long summer, the ancients took turns to weigh themselves, watched the people who weighed them count loudly, and added auspicious words to remind people to pay attention to their health and avoid mosquito diseases in summer. Weight gain means weight gain, and weight loss means weight loss.

The 24 solar terms are: beginning of spring, Rain, Sting, Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Xiaoxia, Daxia, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, Bailu, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.