What are the traditional customs of Nanchang people in summer solar terms?
1, have tea
Fu Cha, as its name implies, is the tea people drink in dog days. Free tea is usually served from the beginning of June to the end of August in the lunar calendar. This kind of tea, which is made of more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice, has the function of cooling and relieving summer heat.
2. Stick it for three days
Three-day patch is a kind of plaster, such as the size of a bank card, which is usually used in groups of four. It is believed that it can treat and prevent some diseases (such as rhinitis, tracheitis, pharyngitis, asthma, etc.) by sticking it on certain parts of the back on the first day of the lunar calendar in summer. ) in winter.
3. The seaside is too hot.
People in Shenzhen spend hot summer days by the sea. Sunscreen is very important in summer, not only for women who love beauty and are afraid of tanning, but also for men who have been exposed to the sun for a long time, especially when going to the seaside or water parks, they need to use sunscreen and apply sunscreen from time to time.
4. dried ginger
Fu Jiang originated in Shanxi, Henan and other places in China. In dog days, people slice or juice ginger, mix it with brown sugar, put it in a container, cover it with gauze and dry it in the sun.
After fully blending, it has a miraculous effect on stomach cold, cold and cough, and has a warming and health care function.
5. Drink summer sheep
"Drinking sheep to cool off the summer heat" is a popular custom to cool off the summer heat in Yimeng Mountain area and southwest Shandong in the old revolutionary base area of central and southern Shandong. Among them, Shandong Shanxian mutton soup is the most famous.
The mutton soup in summer is of good quality and rich in nutrition. It has the good effects of strengthening glands, benefiting qi, warming and tonifying kidney yang, and has become a nourishing and delicious food with excellent flavor on people's table in slack season.
Step 6 eat noodles
When summer comes, Linyi has the traditional custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) or eating noodles in summer.
On this day, every married daughter and married son will go back to their parents' home, kill a sheep and cook a pot of cold noodles. The whole family will happily drink mutton soup and eat noodles and have a hot summer.
7. Eat pineapple
During the hot summer, there is a custom of eating pineapples in Taiwan Province Province, China, and people think that pineapples are the best at this time. In addition, the pronunciation of pineapple in Minnan dialect is the same as that of "Wanglai", so it is also used as a symbol of praying for peace, good luck and prosperous business.
8, eat "half a year round"
Besides, June 15th of the lunar calendar is a hot summer, which is also called the "Semiannual Festival" in Taiwan Province Province. Because June 15 of the lunar calendar is half of a year, the whole family will eat "half moon" together after worshipping God on this day.
Half-year round is made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and rubbing it with red noodles. Most of them will be made into candy to taste, symbolizing reunion and sweetness.
9. Send a "summer boat"
Sending a "summer boat" is a traditional folk custom in Zhejiang coastal areas, especially in many fishing villages in Taizhou. Its significance is to send the "five saints" out of the sea and protect people from the heat. When sending the "Summer Boat", there are also colorful folk art performances.
10, send athel loren.
In dog days and summer, the sun is like fire, which is also the outbreak period of plague diseases. In the past, people often held prayers on boats on the river and rowed them far away to show that the plague had been driven away and all the diseases had disappeared.