The 24 solar terms of our country are established according to the growth of crops and the change of seasons. The beginning of summer is the season when crops enter the peak of growth. From this day on, it has entered a long and hot summer. What is the custom of Lixia solar term? Interested friends come to know about it.
The custom of Lixia solar term
Emperors welcome summer
In the Zhou Dynasty, on the day of the beginning of summer, the emperor would lead a hundred officials of civil and military affairs to the southern suburbs outside the capital to welcome the summer, hold a ceremony to sacrifice the Emperor Yan and Zhu Rong, and appoint officials to encourage farmers to cultivate all over the country. In the book of rites, the moon order said: 'on the day of the beginning of summer, the emperor led Sangong, Jiuqing, princes and doctors to welcome the summer in the southern suburbs. Return, line reward, seal princes, celebrate to give line by line, all are happy. '
The Han Dynasty inherited this custom. By the Song Dynasty, the etiquette became more complicated, and the Ming Dynasty began to have "taste new customs". In the Qing Dynasty, there was also the idea of giving gifts. It has been recorded in the book "Jisheng at the age of emperor Jing" in the Qing Dynasty. It says that "Lixia is a very important day for the ancient people to take the spring buds of rice flour that are usually exposed to the sun, and fry them with sugar noodles to make colorful fruit stacks and feed each other".
Eat rice with five colors
On the same day of summer, people in many places in South China will use red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans to mix white japonica rice to cook 'five-color rice', commonly known as' summer rice '. I have eaten "Lixia rice" and the custom of "calling people". It is said that after weighing on this day, we will not be afraid of the heat in summer and will not lose weight, or we will be plagued by disease.
Drinking Lixia tea to relieve summer heat
In order to welcome Lixia, there is also the custom of drinking tea in Lixia in Jiangxi Province of China, that is, not drinking Lixia tea, will suffer in the summer; in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province and other places, there are such folk games as turning eggs, touching eggs, drawing eggs, etc.; in Anhui Province of China, it is forbidden to sit on the threshold on the day of Lixia, which is believed to be the threshold on the day of Lixia, which will make you tired and sick in the summer; in Southern Fujian Province, eating shrimp noodles in the summer, that is to say, buying shrimp and mixing it with noodles for cooking, shrimp It turns red after ripening, which is auspicious color, and shrimp and summer are homophonic, which is the wish for summer.
Disaster elimination by fighting eggs
At noon, every family cooked whole eggs (eggs with shells, not broken), soaked in cold water for a few minutes, then put on the woven mesh bag, and hang it on the child's neck. The children will come in groups to fight for eggs. The egg is divided into two ends, the tip is the head and the round is the tail. When fighting for an egg, the egg head fights for the egg head, and the egg tail hits the egg tail. One by one, the losers admit defeat, and finally distinguish the high and low. The winner of the egg head is the first, and the egg is called the king; the winner of the egg tail is the second, and the egg is called the little king or the second king. Proverb: "summer chest hanging eggs, children do not block summer" is a common summer abdominal rise anorexia, fatigue and emaciation, children are particularly easy to block summer.