What are the customs of Zhoushan summer

May 5 is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms created by China's working people according to the climate change on the ground. Summer is the time when everything flourishes. In the book "Lian Sheng eight killed and wounded," Ming wrote: "On the day of Meng Xia, heaven and earth began to intersect, and all things and show." At this time the summer crops into the growth of late, winter wheat blossom and irrigation, rape close to maturity, summer crop year is basically finalized, so the proverb has "summer to see the summer" said. Rice planting as well as other spring crop management has also entered the busy season. Therefore, China has always attached great importance to the summer festival. Summer is not only a festival, in folklore is also a traditional festival. The beginning of summer, the weather is warm and sunny, the heat is gradually coming, people eat less, easy to lose fat and thin, especially children are prone to body fatigue and limb weakness, anorexia and lethargy, known as "Resistance and Resistance to Summer". Therefore, Zhoushan summer customs are mostly related to enhance physical fitness, physical and mental health. Memory of the summer is very interesting, grandmother or grandmother will give the children ready to use silk or wool knitted bag, used to contain eggs, each family will steam or boil a pot of eggs, duck eggs, eggs, goose eggs are relatively rare, each child to go to school generally with four or five eggs, to the school will begin to fight the eggs, which egg shells first broken which is considered to be a loser, the winners naturally pleased, the losers will be eating the eggs is also quite beautiful, because when we believe that the old man said that the summer is the most important time for the children to go to school, the children will start to fight the eggs, which eggshell first broken which is considered to be a loser, the winner naturally pleased, the losers will be eating eggs also quite beautiful. The reason for this is that we believe in the old saying, "Eat an egg in the summer, and your strength will grow by 10,000".

That day also weighing, and is a very large scale, the child grasping the scale hook, rope through the middle of a bamboo, the two adults a lift, the scale pole hanging on the corresponding large weight, the weight came out, grasping the scale hook swinging around is more interesting. There is a poem that says: "When it is summer, there is a strange talk, a huge scale hanging high in a bamboo basket, the old and the young do not distinguish between them all on the scale, the new rope is the most embarrassing to break." The purpose of weighing in the summer is to pray for physical and mental health, the body is not fat or thin, to prevent "resistance to summer", the desire to successfully pass the summer. Now weighing is too convenient, this method is estimated that no one used again.

Lixia noon to the fashionable dishes rituals, family reunion, eat Lixia soup rice. Lunch is usually eaten glutinous rice, rice mixed with cowpeas. According to Chinese medicine theory, glutinous rice is also a Chinese medicine, with warm stomach and tonic, beneficial to the effect of diarrhea. The table must have specialties such as tea-leaf eggs, foot bone shoots, shelled peas, and imperial vegetables. Why eat tea eggs in summer? Legend has it that there is a folk saying: "Eat an egg in the summer, the strength of 10,000; do not eat eggs in the summer, on the can fall down the can." Because the egg is shaped like a heart, people think that eating an egg in the summer will make the heart spirit not lose. In fact, from a modern perspective, this custom is undoubtedly beneficial to health. Eggs or duck eggs are rich in protein, and again tea eggs are cooked with eggs or duck eggs plus tea leaves, its nutritional value is even higher. According to medical experts told: in all drinks, tea anti-cancer is the first place, but also can protect the teeth. Therefore, eat tea eggs in summer, does have positive scientific significance. Foot bone bamboo shoots (the shape of which is like the human leg bone), which is again a peculiar dish name in the summer. Bamboo shoots cut into three or four inches Xu, into the pot, with cooking oil, soy sauce, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate and other cooking, implying that people's legs are as strong as bamboo shoots, can travel long distances. Shelled peas are shaped like eyes. In the old days, people suffered from eye disease is more common, in order to eliminate eye disease, summer to eat peas to pray for a year eyes can be as bright and clear as fresh peas. Speaking of imperial dishes, which is a special dish name, there is a funny legend in Zhoushan folklore. It is said that in the third year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1129), the Jin soldiers invaded the Central Plains, and in order to escape from the Jin soldiers, the King of Kang, Mr. Zhao Jiu, fled from Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou) to Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo), and then fled across the ocean to Changguo (present-day Zhoushan). King Kang just abandoned his boat and disembarked, the Jin soldiers followed him, so he fled and trampled through the vegetable fields, trampling the vegetables to the ground. Who knows that night a spring rain, this field planted vegetables but has a strong vitality, the next day actually restore the original appearance, and grow lush. So, the folk will be this vegetable called "imperial vegetables", also known as "Jun Tap", which means "the emperor stepped on the vegetables". Summer to eat imperial vegetables is people praying for imperial vegetables like a strong vitality, vitality all year round, physical strength, full of spirit, health and longevity.

The origin and traditional customs of Rixia As the name suggests, Rixia refers to the beginning of summer. However, the temperature varies from place to place, and the time of the beginning of summer is actually not consistent. According to the climatology of the five-day average temperature higher than 22 ℃ as the standard of summer. Every year during the fourth month of the lunar calendar, around May 6 on the Gregorian calendar when the sun reaches 45 ° of yellow longitude began. Folk custom as the beginning of summer. At this time the climate in most parts of China is warm, crop growth is gradually prosperous, more cotton and other crops in the plow management. Farmer's Proverb: "the beginning of summer three dynasties all over the hoe." And to the summer of the cloudy day divination of the year's abundance and failure. Henan has a "summer without rain, plow and harrow high hanging up" proverb. The old custom of summer and for the traditional folk festival, called "summer festival." In ancient times, the rate of the Son of Heaven to welcome the summer in the southern suburbs, and held a ceremony to worship Yandi, Zhu Rong. To the Ming Dynasty folk began to taste the new custom, the Qing Dynasty, there are more sacrifices to the gods, taste the new, feed the festival, weighing people, cooking new tea and other customs. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas still retain eating summer eggs, healthy feet bamboo shoots, five Tiger Dan, three and a half, such as "eat complementary food" dietary customs; Xuanwei area in Yunnan has a gate inserted soap pods branch, safflower to pressure Chong, around the foot of the gray wall to avoid the custom of snakes. Part of China's ethnic minorities also have the custom of the summer festival. Summer season, Fuzhou custom popular cooking tripod edge "do summer". Dingbian paste (also known as pot side paste), with rice paste shabu shabu pot side boiled and made with shrimp, shrimp oil, green onions, golden needles, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of mushrooms, razor clams, and other seafood broth, the flavor is extremely meat beautiful and delicious. Anyone who grows up in Fuzhou or lives in Fuzhou for a long time loves to eat it. It has become a famous snack in Fuzhou and a special symbol of Fuzhou. The people of Fuzhou who live abroad, in a foreign country, once they hear the word "Dingbian Paste", they seem to see their hometown's "silhouette", and it has become the flavorful snacks of their ancestors and hometowns. Summer cooking tripod side "do summer", prevalent in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The summer has entered the busy season. On this day, not only did the family eat well and then work in the fields, but they also gave the food to each other as gifts to their neighbors and friends. As in the case of shabu-shabu, the food was cooked as soon as it was cooked, in order to build relationships. It reflects the traditional virtue of Fuzhou people, "the Golden Alley and the Silver Township". From the legend of Dingbian paste, the meaning of eating Dingbian in the summer is even deeper. During the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Fuzhou coastal cities and towns were often harassed by Japanese invaders. Qi Jiguang led his troops into Fujian to fight against the Japanese, and was welcomed by the local people everywhere. The people often sent food to the Qi family army as a reward. One day, Qi Jiguang's army arrived at the southern suburb of Fuzhou, and decided to take a half-day rest after winning several battles along the way. The people in the southern suburb of Fuzhou had already gathered all the delicious food from their homes in order to comfort the three armies. Unexpectedly, a group of Japanese invaders came out from the direction of Changle and attacked the southern suburb of Fuzhou. The Qi family army gathered urgently to prepare for the battle. The townspeople were cooking and organizing a banquet to celebrate the victory, but it was no longer possible to hold the banquet. I do not know who came up with the idea of grinding rice into pulp, shredded meat, clams, gold needles, fungus, razor clams, dried scallops, and so on, a brain mixed into a high-grade broth, shabu-shabu rice paste in the pot, without a quarter of an hour, a pot of pots and pots of pots and pots of Dingbian paste came out. After the soldiers ate their fill, they fought bravely and wiped out all the Japanese invaders in the sea in less than two hours. "Do summer" to eat Dingbian paste, remember the national heroes, but also has the connotation of patriotism.