An inventory of customs of the Beginning of Summer. How to celebrate the Beginning of Summer?

An inventory of customs of the Beginning of Summer. How to celebrate the Beginning of Summer?
Introduction: Lixia is the seventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms. What are the customs and how is it usually celebrated? 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! Eating Beginning of Summer Rice On the day of Beginning of Summer, according to traditional Chinese customs, we have to eat various kinds of rice, such as black rice, pea glutinous rice... The main ingredient is the most common rice, but because various seasonal ingredients are added, it changes into different colors, which also stimulates people's appetite. On the day of the Beginning of Summer, people in the south like to mix red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-colored beans with white glutinous rice to make "five-color rice", commonly known as "Beginning of Summer Rice".
In later generations, there are festival activities such as tasting new things at the beginning of summer. For example, there is a proverb in Suzhou that "three new things are seen at the beginning of summer", which are cherries, green plums and wheat, which are used to worship ancestors. In Changshu, the food is more abundant. There is a saying that "nine meats and thirteen vegetables". The nine meats are crucian carp, salted eggs, snails, simmered chicken, pickled chicken, braised shrimp, and cherry meat; the thirteen vegetables include cherries, plums, wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), bamboo shoots, broad beans, spears, peas, cucumbers, lettuce, grass heads, radishes, roses, and pine flowers. In Nantong, people eat boiled chicken and duck eggs.
The folk custom in Yunnan on the Beginning of Summer is to avoid evil spirits and snakes. According to the "Yunnan General Records" of the first year of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, on the day of the beginning of summer in April, "sophora japonica branches and red flowers are inserted into the door to ward off evil spirits; and the foot of the wall is surrounded by gray to avoid snakes." Avoiding snakes in April is related to the Chinese zodiac sign of snake. The months are recorded in the earthly branches, with March as Chen and April as Yi. To ward off evil spirits at the beginning of summer, people put soapberry branches and red flowers on the door, which implies the harmony of black (water) and red (fire). According to the ancient theory of the five elements, black represents water and red represents fire. The hope is to achieve a balance through mutual restraint between the two. At the same time, the ancients not only used soapberry to remove dirt in daily life, but also used it as medicine, believing that it had insecticidal properties. It is regarded as a ward off evil spirits and is also used to remove filth and drive away evil spirits.
At noon on the day of the egg-fighting game , every household boiled whole eggs (the eggs were boiled in their shells and must not be broken), soaked them in cold water for a few minutes, put them in a woven silk mesh bag, and hung them around the children's necks. The children gathered in groups of three or five to play the egg-fighting game. The egg is divided into two ends, the pointed one is the head and the round one is the tail.
When fighting eggs, egg heads fight egg heads, and egg tails fight egg tails. They fight one by one, the defeated one admits defeat, and finally the winner is determined. The winner of the egg head is first, and the egg is called the king; the winner of the egg tail is second, and the egg is called the little king or the second king.
Weighing People There is a custom of weighing people after lunch at the Beginning of Summer. 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." The scale can only be punched from the inside (that is, from the small number to the large number), not from the outside to the inside.
Summary: The above is an inventory of customs of the Beginning of Summer. How to celebrate the Beginning of Summer? 】, I hope the entire content can be helpful to everyone!

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