The dream returns to Longyuan East, and the literature and history are exhausted
(Dream return to Autumn Chen: No. 332)
We all know that there were twenty-four solar terms in ancient times, which were determined according to the movement of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, and generally rotated clockwise for one week or a year. The Big Dipper seven stars (bucket handles) have twenty-four directions when they rotate, and these directions evolve into twenty-four solar terms, and we are based on the twenty-four solar terms for twelve months of each year.
Big Dipper Seven Stars
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the twenty-four solar terms were incorporated into the taichu calendar, and since then it has also been closely integrated with agricultural production, and the twenty-four solar terms have begun to guide agricultural production. The four seasons of the year mark the replacement and transformation of astronomy, water conservancy, and all things, and also indicate the meaning of heaven and earth.
Each season has six more solar terms: spring (Lichun, rain, sting, spring equinox, Qingming, valley rain), summer (Lixia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Xiaoxia, Daxia), Autumn (Liqiu, Summer, White Dew, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, Frost), Winter (Lidong, Little Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Little Cold, Big Cold). Ancient people may not know words, but everyone can memorize the twenty-four solar terms, because this is the basis for people to cultivate agriculture, that is, it guarantees agricultural production for more than two thousand years.
Twenty-four solar terms
And today is the summer, maybe we have faded all the festivals and feelings, no matter what the festival, we are nothing more than tourism, food, take pictures and then send a circle of friends. So do you know what the ancients did on the day of Lixia?
First, try new activities.
This is mainly in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and there is a local name: Lixia has three new, that is, newly ripe cherries, green plums and wheat. So the locals used the three new to pay homage to their ancestors, and then tasted the three new themselves. In Wuxi, the local is lixia to taste three fresh, and the three fresh here are three fresh ground, three fresh trees and three fresh water.
Lixia Sanxin
I will take the apricots in our hometown, maybe many people have eaten mature apricots, but how many people have eaten green and astringent orange apricots? I remember biting down when I was a child, there was a sour taste in the sweet and crisp taste, and that delicious taste made me remember it for a long time.
2. Egg fighting game.
On this day, the children of each family cry and cry and let their parents steam eggs for themselves, and then the mother scolds and grins while steaming eggs for the children. When the elated children wait for the eggs to be cooked, they can't wait to put the eggs in cold water and apply the pattern. Then take the egg out and touch it with the tip of the egg with other friends, and then see whose egg is hard, and the winning partner has a special face at this time.
Egg fighting game
Of course, there are also places where the egg is hung around the neck with a rope, because hanging the egg on the neck on this day of Lixia can drive away the obscurity and make the year safe. After all, whether poor or rich, the peace and security of a family is the greatest happiness and happiness. This has to remind me of the saying: "Li Xia's chest hangs eggs, and the villain has a bad summer.".
Third, Li Xia is called a person.
On the day of ancient Lixia, after lunch, a man took a large wooden scale and stood in the wheat field in the village and shouted. At this time, people bring their children to use the scale, because people believe that using the scale on this day will bring a kind of good luck to the child, which is a kind of expectation for the child.
Li Xia called people
At this time, the person holding the scale will weigh and sing auspicious words in his mouth, and then the whole village will spend the whole summer in laughter. This custom may have been lost, but the custom of parents weighing children at birth to symbolize their children is still popular among us.
Over the millennia, time has brought us a lot of things, and we have lost a lot of things. When people interact with each other, it becomes a communication technique, when dealing with people becomes a balance of interests, and when reality becomes a utilitarian technique. We don't seem to have lost anything, but everyone suddenly loses happiness, honesty, happiness. We always call for the restoration of traditional culture, not to find its form, but to find its connotation of living in the world and a happy and simple living atmosphere.
LiXia
Use culture to light up life, and use history to review life. I am Dreaming of Autumn Chen, thank you for reading and encouraging. If you like it, please pay attention, thank you!