Today is Lixia. There are many legends about Lixia solar terms in our history, among which the ancient poetry of Lixia weighing is the most interesting. The following editor will tell you two legends about Lixia.
What are the legends of Lixia
On the day of the beginning of summer, there are many folk customs in China, one of which is to call people. The so-called "weighing people" is that adults take a big scale, hang a big basket on the hook, and children sit in the basket to weigh themselves. Later, people called this custom 'calling people'.
There are many legends about why people are called. One of them is that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang started his army, his general Chang Yuchun was unfortunately captured by the yuan army in a battle. Zhu Yuanzhang was very anxious when he heard the news. After many explorations, he learned that Chang Yuchun was put in prison.
In order to save Chang Yuchun's life, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to buy the generals of the yuan army and bribed the jailers through his friends to make them treat Chang Yuchun well and not let him suffer. As the saying goes, "if you have money, you can buy a ghost to push the mill." if you eat someone's soft mouth, you can take someone's soft hand. "In addition, the generals of the yuan army and the jailer have long known that the Yuan Dynasty was exhausted, and they were worried that they had no way to curry favor with Zhu Yuanzhang. How can they make Chang Yuchun feel guilty? But how can they let Zhu Yuanzhang know that Chang Yuchun was treated well in prison? If not well, Zhu Yuanzhang will be destroyed in the future What about the nine nationalities!
The wife of the jailer asked her husband why he was sad for several days. After hearing what her husband said about Chang Yuchun, his wife laughed and said, "it's not easy to do. First, you should weigh the weight of Chang Yuchun, and then you should keep him with good wine and meat. As long as he's not thin, doesn't that mean that he didn't suffer in prison?"
The next day, the jailer really weighed Chang Yuchun according to what his wife said. That day happened to be Li Xiaer. Since then, the jailer has been waiting for Chang Yuchun with good wine and vegetables every day, for fear that he will lose a little bit.
A year later, Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to conquer the city and rescued Chang Yuchun from the prison. In order to show his merit, the jailer asked someone to weigh Chang Yuchun in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Chang Yuchun was not thin, but heavier than last year. Coincidentally, this day is also summer. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and said with a smile: 'good, good, Lixia, Lixia, call people, call people. After that, the custom of calling people in Lixia became popular among the people.
The second kind of legend about the beginning of Xia Dynasty is related to Liu Chan, the master of Shu in the Three Kingdoms period
At the end of the Three Kingdoms period, Shu, which was run by Liu Chan, was a country with few soldiers and no national strength. In this year, general Deng AI of the state of Wei was ordered to lead his army to attack Shu, forcing Liu Chan to surrender. There was a loyal minister named Zheng in Shu state. He told Deng AI that "Liu Chan is the king of a country. After he surrendered to Wei capital, he can't be abused at all. He can't lose a little meat, or he would rather die than surrender.". Deng AI agreed to this condition.
After Liu Chan surrendered, he was taken to Luoyang, the capital of the state of Wei at that time. The Duke of Wei made him the Duke of Anle, and gave him a house, ten thousand silks and 100 beauties. Since then, Liu Chan has spent all his time eating, drinking and having fun, but he has no shame of forgetting his country. The next year, he was asked to weigh Liu Chan. Instead of losing weight, he weighed more than 20 jin. This day also happens to be summer day. In the romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a poem that says' chasing after fun, smiling, not thinking of the dangerous land. Happy foreign land, forget the country, just know after the Lord is mediocre. 'Lixia custom: eating eggs in Lixia
There are quite a lot of characteristics in China's earliest traditional customs, and the classic food on the day of the beginning of summer is Lixia egg. On this day, many people cook eggs at home, usually with tea powder or walnut shell, until the eggshell turns red, they can start to eat them while they are hot. Sprinkle the eggs with some fine salt.
And the custom of eating eggs in Lixia has been around for a long time. As the saying goes: if you eat eggs in Lixia, it's not hot in summer. It is said that this custom began from the beginning of summer, when the weather began to be sunny and gradually hot. Many children would feel tired and weak, and their appetite would be greatly reduced. At this time, Nuwa told the people that every year at the beginning of summer, they would scratch chicken, duck and goose eggs on their chest, which could effectively solve this problem. Therefore, this is the origin of the custom of eating eggs at the beginning of summer.
Lixia custom: eating black rice
On the first day of summer, we traditionally eat some black rice. Black rice is made by immersing glutinous rice in black liquor for several hours and then cooking. This is the custom of summer in rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River.
Lixia custom: most of the northern regions eat pasta
In the north of China, Li xiajie is just in the season of wheat rising, so most areas in the North usually make wheat based pasta at the beginning of summer, mainly to celebrate the harvest of wheat. There are three kinds of pasta: Summer cake, flour cake and spring roll.