Today's summer,
The summer is the twenty-fourth solar term of the lunar calendar,
The 14th of the solar terms,
The time point is August 23 of the Gregorian calendar,
The Sun reaches 150° ecliptic longitude.
Summer festivals mean:
Autumn is about to enter the meteorological significance!
But as the saying goes,
"In the heat of the day, it is like an autumn tiger."
The "subtropical high pressure" that dominates in summer,
It will not easily retreat to the sea in the western Pacific.
People who have just felt a hint of autumn coolness,
Often at the end of the summer,
Feel the heat again,
This is the "Autumn Tiger"!
Everyone should still pay attention to heat protection and cooling!
Each solar term will have some characteristic customs,
Heat stroke is no exception,
How do the people celebrate this day?
What are the folk customs of the summer festival?
Let's look down
Eat longan with porridge
In Fuzhou,
In the heat, eat longan with porridge.
Because the weather is hot in the summer,
The human body consumes a lot of calories,
Eating longan can replenish calories.
Longan is warm,
It is beneficial to the heart and spleen, replenishing qi and blood, and nourishing qi.
Besides
White balls are also eaten in the summer season.
White balls are actually glutinous rice pills,
The method is very simple,
Roll the glutinous rice flour into small grains,
Cook the soup, add some sugar,
can be supplemented with carbohydrates,
It can also relieve the mouth of summer.
Sengoku tea
This custom has been prevalent since the Tang Dynasty,
Everywhere in the heat,
Every household first goes to the pharmacy to dispense a prescription,
Then prepare sencha at home,
It means to eat some "bitterness" in autumn,
It is quite beneficial in clearing heat, removing fire, eliminating food, and removing lung heat.
Put river lights
River lamps are also called "lotus lamps",
Usually put a lamp or candle on the base,
The middle of the first night is placed in the rivers, lakes and seas,
Let it drift freely.
The river lights are for the drowning ghosts and other lonely ghosts in the Pudu water.
A passage from Xiao Hong's "Biography of Hulan River",
is the best footnote to this custom:
"July 15 is a ghost day; Dead ghosts,
It is very bitter to be entangled in hell,
I want to be a child, but I can't find a way.
On this day, if there is a dead ghost holding a river lamp, he will have to live. ”
Open Fishing Festival
For fishermen along the coast,
After the summer is a good time for the harvest of the fishery,
Every year at the summer festival,
In the coastal area of Zhejiang Province, an annual grand fishing festival will be held.
Decided on the day when the fishing moratorium in the East China Sea ended,
Hold a grand opening ceremony,
Farewell to the fishermen to sail out to sea.
At the time of the fishing festival,
Originally a static sea surface lined with sails and thousands of anchors,
Instantly become an active scene of machine roaring, long whistle sounding, and hundreds of boats firing in unison.
The main contents of the festival are:
Thousands of households hang fishing lanterns, thousands of boats race ceremony,
Literary and art evening special, island tourism,
Special product exhibitions, local folk art performances and other activities.
Eat duck
Old duck taste sweet and cool,
Therefore, there is a folk tradition of eating duck in the summer,
The methods are also varied,
There are white cut duck, lemon duck,
Ginger duck, roast duck,
Lotus leaf duck, walnut duck, etc.
Beijing still retains,
On this day, go to the store to buy the tradition of summer lily duck.
The changes in the seasons,
Naturally, it is also reflected in agricultural affairs.
The ancients also left a large number of proverbs of practical value,
Such as "an autumn rain and a cool",
"Three rains in autumn, sack cloth fans high,"
"Cool weather in the summer", "hot in the summer" and so on.
Is there any custom in your hometown on the day of the summer?
Source: Future Network