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The custom of Lixia in Feng Zikai's paintings

The custom of Lixia in Feng Zikai's paintings

Cherry peas divide children, grass spring breeze another year

This work was made by Mr. Feng Zikai with a sense of the Lixia Festival. Dozens of red cherries, a bowl full of peas, and a dragonfly that smells like incense. The picture is vivid and colorful, which is evocative.

Lixia, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas of the custom of "trying new". Suzhou has a proverb that "LiXia sees three new". "Sanxin" refers to newly ripe cherries, plums and wheat. People first worship their ancestors with these "three new", and then people taste food. At the same time, Suzhou Lixia also eats sea snails, gluten, white shoots, cabbage, salted duck eggs, green broad beans, and the hotels in Lixia send wine and shochu to the old customers who enter the store on this day, without taking any money, so they also call Lixia "feeding festival".

Wuxi folk have always had the custom of "tasting three fresh in summer". Three fresh is divided into three fresh, tree three fresh, water three fresh. The three fresh fruits of the ground are broad beans, amaranth, cucumber (or there is a yuan wheat and garlic seedlings for one); the tree three fresh is cherries, loquats, apricots (or plums, toon heads for one); water three fresh is sea lice, pufferfish, anchovies (or pomfret, yellow fish, silver fish, sub-mackerel for one).

The custom of Lixia in Feng Zikai's paintings

But I like to weigh a few pounds this year

The new scale is good to weigh, but it likes to weigh a few pounds this year.

After eating a healthy foot shoot, I am more jumpy and energetic.

Lixia, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas also have the custom of "Lixia calling people". Li Xia is not just a child.

In Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, people hang a large wooden scale at the entrance of the village or in the gate, and the scale hook hangs a stool, and everyone takes turns to sit on the stool to weigh it. The scale man weighs flowers on the one hand and speaks auspicious words on the other. When calling the old man, he should say: "The scale spends eighty-seven, and lives to ninety-one." ”

When calling the girl, he should say: "One hundred and five pounds, outsiders come to the door." Don't be willing to be partial, don't be willing, the prince of the yuan has a fate. ”

When calling a child, he should say: "Weigh a dozen and twenty-three, and the small officials and chiefs will come out of the mountain." Qipin County officials should not make mistakes, and the three princes and nine secretaries are also good to climb. ”

It is said that after weighing the weight on the day of summer, you are not afraid of the summer heat and will not lose weight. People hope that by calling people, they will increase their happiness and longevity.

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