Why do we need to eat mutton stewed with water fish?

The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is a folk festival and a traditional festival of ethnic minorities in rural areas of China. According to the Internet, the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the Festival of Heavenly Providence, the Festival of Drying the Scriptures, the Festival of the King of Bugs, the Festival of Washing and Drying the Sun, and the Festival of the Harvest, all of which have their own allusions and legends. Every place will make different recipes to celebrate the festival. Xiangtan has a custom of "eating water fish stewed with mutton on June 6".

It is said that because of the blazing sun and scorching heat of the sixth month of the lunar calendar in the south, coupled with the heavy humidity in the morning and evening, it is easy for various kinds of fever to occur in the yin and yang. The sixth month of the lunar calendar to eat fish stewed lamb, can play a role in nourishing yin and clearing heat, so eat "fish stewed lamb" custom has been passed down from generation to generation.

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Customs of the Sixth of June

Additionally, there is a Chinese proverb that says, "On the sixth day of the sixth month, every family basks in the sunlight of red and green". The term "red and green" refers to all kinds of colorful clothes. The latter sentence of this proverb, but also for the "family tanning dragon robe", there is an explanation in Yangzhou, said Emperor Qianlong in Yangzhou on the way to the tour coincided with the downpour, wet coat, but not good enough to borrow the people's clothes to replace them, so we have to wait for the rain to pass and clear, will be the wet clothes and then wear the sun, which happens to be the sixth of June, and thus there is a "tanning Dragon robe" said.

Jiangnan region, after the yellow plum days, hidden in the bottom of the box of clothing easy on the mold, take out the sun. Legend has it that on this day, the clothes do not decay, and the books do not become worm-eaten. This custom is found in more than 300 years ago, Ming Shen Defu "wildly edited", the scholar's family and the common people are also in the sun on this day of clothing and miscellaneous items, in order to prevent moth-eaten.