Why do we weigh ourselves at the beginning of summer? Where does the tradition of weighing oneself at the beginning of summer come from?
China is a country with a history of about 5,000 years, so there are various customs in many traditional festivals and solar terms, and the Beginning of Summer is no exception. The Fortune Teller website has carefully compiled detailed information about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2018. If you want to know about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the lunar calendar days in the third month, please come to Mr. Shui Mo!Why do we weigh ourselves at the beginning of summer?It is said that if you weigh yourself on the day of the Beginning of Summer, you will not be afraid of the summer heat and will not lose weight, otherwise you will be plagued by diseases. People hang a large wooden scale at the entrance of the village or at the gate, with a stool hung on the hook. Everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people.The scale operator was beating the scales while saying auspicious words. An old man would say "If you spend eighty-seven on the scale, you will live to ninety-one". The girl on the scale said, "One hundred and five kilograms, the young master's family has come to your house. Don't agree, don't agree, because you are destined to be with the number one scholar." The boy on the scale said, "Twenty-three flowers on the scale, the young master will get married when he grows up. Don't be afraid to get a seventh-rank county official, and it's also easy to marry a duke or a minister." Where does the tradition of weighing oneself at the beginning of summer come from?Sun Shangxiang and Lixia weigh inThe custom of "weighing oneself on the beginning of summer" is also related to Sun Shangxiang. During the Three Kingdoms period, Suzhou was Sun Quan's sphere of influence. Sun Quan was very unhappy that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou and did not return it. Liu Bei first plotted to marry off his younger sister, and then pretended that his mother, Wu Guotai, was seriously ill and tricked his younger sister, Sun Shangxiang, back to Soochow. Liu Bei was worried that Sun Shangxiang was not living well in Soochow, so he sent envoys to Soochow to pay their respects and weigh her to judge how she was doing. As a result, the people of Dongwu did not weigh themselves at all. The envoy came up with an idea. On the day of the beginning of summer, he ordered people to set up large scales in the streets and alleys of Suzhou. When a child was weighed, he would be given a salted duck egg. The duck egg was placed in a small mesh bag with colorful silk thread and hung around the child's neck. It is also rumored that if a child is weighed with a "gougouqian" shape, it means he is not likely to die young and will grow up fast; if an adult is weighed with a "satisfactory" shape, it means he will be well-dressed and will not suffer from summer heatstroke. In this way, both adults and children weighed themselves. Sun Shangxiang also weighed herself very happily. The custom of weighing oneself and eating salted duck eggs at the beginning of summer has been passed down and is still preserved today. Liu Adou and Weighing at the Beginning of Summer <br /> There is a saying that the custom of “weighing at the Beginning of Summer” was handed down from the Three Kingdoms period. According to legend, after Sima Zhao destroyed Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, he conferred the title of Duke of Anle on the day of the Beginning of Summer and weighed A Dou in front of a group of surrendered officials of Shu Han. He said that he would weigh A Dou again every year at the Beginning of Summer to ensure that A Dou's weight would not decrease every year, to show that he had not been treated unfairly. From then on, the custom of "weighing at the beginning of summer" gradually formed among the people. There is another saying about Adou. It is said that after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang gave his son Adou to Zhao Zilong and sent him to Jiangdong, and asked his stepmother, Lady Sun, who had returned to her mother's home, to raise him. That day was the beginning of summer. Madam Sun weighed Adou in front of Zhao Zilong. She planned to weigh him again at the beginning of summer next year to see how much weight he had gained. This way she would know whether the child was being raised well. Then they would write letters to report to Zhuge Liang, thus forming a custom that spread among the people. |
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