What are the customs of summer 5

1, welcome summer ceremony. The "summer" of "summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in the spring have grown up. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the rituals and customs of the beginning of summer. In the old days, on the day of the summer, the ancient emperors had to rate the civil and military officials to the southern suburb of the capital to welcome the summer, and held a ceremony to welcome the summer. All the officials wore vermilion dress, with vermilion jade pendant, even horses, car flag should be vermilion, to express the harvest of hope and good wishes. The court also want to "start the ice on the summer day, give the civil and military ministers". Ice is stored in the previous winter, by the emperor to the hundred officials.

2, Resistance and Resistance Rope. In the old days, with five-color silk thread tied to the child's wrist on the first day of summer, a symbol of disaster and pray for blessings not to propulsion and resistance to summer disease, the silk thread is known as "Resistance and Resistance Rope" is also known as "long-life strand".

3, eat summer eggs. As the saying goes, "eat the egg in the summer, hot days not Resistance to summer", according to legend, from the day of summer, the weather is warm and sunny and gradually hot, many people, especially children, will have the feeling of physical fatigue and weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite and gradual loss of weight, which is called "Resistance to summer". Mother Nuwa told the people that on the day of the first day of summer every year, children would hang hard-boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs on their chests to prevent them from being resilient to summer. The children would also play egg fights in groups of three to five.

4, avoid sitting on the threshold. Summer day also said to avoid sitting on the threshold.

5, summer "weighing people". Summer also has the custom of weighing people. People in the outdoors under the tree hanging scales, weighing children and the elderly, in order to test the changes in the body over the year. The scale hook hangs a stool, and people take turns sitting on top of the stool to weigh people. The scale man is playing the scale flower on one side, and speaking auspicious words on the other side.