What is the custom of the summer solstice solar terms?
1, ancestor worship
The solstice in summer is the harvest season of wheat. Since ancient times, celebrating harvest and sacrificing ancestors at this time is to pray for a good year. Therefore, the summer solstice, as a festival, was included in the ancient ritual of offering sacrifices to the gods. Nowadays, some places will hold a grand "Summer Wheat Festival" around the summer solstice, which is the relic of the ancient "Summer Wheat Festival" activities.
2. Summer Resort
On the solstice of summer, women give each other folding fans, powder cakes and other things. "Fan" produces wind; "Powder fat" is suitable for dispelling turbid qi caused by body heat and preventing miliaria. In ancient times, in the imperial court, after the summer solstice, the royal family took out the ice cubes that were "stored in winter and used in summer" to "avoid summer and shelter from the wind", which was used throughout the dynasties from the Zhou Dynasty and became a system.
3. Eat "Wheat jiaozi" and "Summer solstice cakes"
"Wujiang County Records" says: "On the summer solstice, make wheat dumplings, sacrifice first, and then pay each other." Not only eat "wheat dumplings", but also give them to each other as gifts. Farmers will also roll pancakes, bake them, add vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon, eat them after ancestor worship, or give them to relatives and friends, commonly known as "summer solstice cakes."
4. Eat noodles from summer to Sunday.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying among the people in China that "eat solstice wonton in winter and solstice noodles in summer" and "eat solstice noodles in summer, and the day becomes shorter". There are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dry soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, sesame oil noodles and cold noodles, while noodles with gravy and dregs in the north. Because new wheat has appeared from summer to sun, eating noodles from summer to sun also means tasting new things.
Summer solstice phenomenon
In some ancient Chinese literary works, the summer is divided into three periods: the first period is the staghorn solution, which means that the deer's horn is forward, so it belongs to yang, and it is believed that the antlers begin to fall off in summer, while the mi is yin, so it falls off in winter (Mi and deer belong to the same family, but the ancients thought it was yin and yang).
When the cicada starts to sing, it means that after the summer solstice, the male cicada will flap his wings and sing. Pinellia ternata was born in the third season, which means that Pinellia ternata is a shade-loving herb, named after it was born in swamps or paddy fields in midsummer. It can be seen that in the hot summer, some creatures that like yin begin to appear, while those that like yang begin to decline.
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