Folk activities and matters needing attention in long summer solar terms
What folk activities are there in changxia?
1, Summer Welcome Ceremony
The word "summer" in "long summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs and habits of long summer. In ancient times, on the day of long summer, the ancient emperor would lead hundreds of officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome summer and hold a ceremony to welcome summer. The monarch and his subjects all wear red ceremonial costumes and red jade ornaments, and even horses and car flags should be red to express their desire and good wishes for a bumper harvest. In the imperial court, it is also necessary to "open the ice in the summer and give it to Wen Wuda." Ice was stored last winter and given to officials by the emperor.
2. Xia Xia rope
In the old society, colored silk thread was tied to children's wrists and other places in summer, which meant that diseases in summer could not be avoided. This kind of silk thread is called "summer sickness rope" and "long life thread".
Step 3 eat long summer eggs
As the saying goes, "it's not summer when you eat eggs in the long summer." According to legend, since the day of long summer, the weather has been sunny and warm, and many people, especially children, will feel tired and weak, and their appetite will gradually decrease, which is called "summer in summer". Nu Wa Niangniang told the people that on the day of long summer every year, cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs were hung on the children's chests to escape the heat. Children will also play egg-beating games in groups of three or five.
4. Avoid sitting on the threshold.
There is also a saying that it is forbidden to sit on the threshold in summer. In Anhui, it was recorded in the "Taihu County Records" in the tenth year of Daoguang: "It is said that in summer, bamboo shoots and amaranth are used as soup, and it is forbidden to sleep at the threshold during the day, which is also called worrying about summer fatigue." It is said that sitting on the threshold on this day will make you tired and sick in summer. In the 1930s, the Annals of Ningguo County recorded: "Long summer. Weighing the human body with scales to avoid diseases means that you are not afraid of summer. It is said that sitting on the threshold in the long summer will be depressed for a year. " In summer, children should not sit on the stone steps. If you sit, you should sit on the seventh, so that all diseases can dissipate. Avoid sitting on the floor (threshold), which means that sitting on the floor on this day will lead to sore feet and bone pain in summer. If you sit on the first floor, you must sit on the sixth floor and synthesize seven numbers to solve the nightmare.
5. Long summer "weighing people"
There is also a custom of weighing people in the long summer. People hang scales under outdoor trees to weigh children and old people and test their physical changes over the past year. There is a stool hanging on the scale hook, and everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people. When weighing flowers, the caller said auspicious words.
Matters needing attention in long summer diet
1, avoid overeating and catching cold.
In hot summer, people especially like to eat cold food, but they often ignore the hygiene of cold drinks and cold food, which is easy to cause gastrointestinal diseases. Old people and children should pay special attention to the reasonable collocation of meals. Eat some digestible cold food. Eating vegetables raw in summer is a good recipe for many people, but you can't eat more just for a short time, otherwise it will easily lead to indigestion and gastrointestinal dysfunction (such as bloating and diarrhea).
It's really tempting to eat vegetables raw in hot summer. When cooking, you can soak it in boiling water and eat it cold (such as celery, spinach, white tofu, etc. ). When cooking cold dishes, you can add some seasonings such as vinegar, ginger and salt. Vinegar can detoxify and digest food, and ginger can dispel cold and digest food. Do cold food, avoid lard, tea seed oil, rapeseed oil and sesame oil. Food in summer goes bad easily. Vegetables must be washed clean, and the yellow ones with insect spots should be removed. Pay special attention to food hygiene in summer.
2, avoid being too full
If you can overeat, you can't be full, especially when you eat. The proverb says, "Eat less and live to ninety-nine." Huangdi Neijing? Su Wen pointed out that "the diet should be moderate" and "not excessive". The digestion of old people and children is not strong, especially in summer. If they eat too much and can't digest it, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach and lead to stomach problems. If you are 80% full, your appetite will continue to increase.
3. Avoid "fruitful"
A large number of seasonal fruits are on the market in midsummer. Coupled with the hot weather and loss of appetite, many people like to eat more fruits to supplement their nutrition. Many women who love beauty firmly believe that "three meals of fruit a day, self-cultivation, beauty and beauty", or simply use fruit instead of diet. However, this practice is not desirable, and special attention should be paid to dietary nutrition supplementation in midsummer.
Although eating fruit can absorb a lot of vitamins and water, we can't ignore the balanced intake of other nutrients. So eat fruit in moderation. The basic nutrients needed by human body are carbohydrates, minerals, protein and amino acids. But eating fruit alone can't meet the needs of these nutrients. If the diet is "fruity" for a long time, it will have adverse effects on the endocrine system, digestive system and immune system of the human body, and it will also cause nutritional imbalance.
Disinfection and cleaning are very important before eating fruit. However, some pesticides or bacteria often remain in the epidermis of grapes, strawberries, bayberry and so on. If you don't clean or eat poisonous fruit by mistake, you will have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, and even severe cases will be accompanied by symptoms such as salivation and diarrhea. When eating fruit, cleaning is very important. You can soak it in clear water for one hour (it is not advisable to wash the fruit with detergent or disinfectant).
Physical exertion is particularly high in summer. For some special groups, we should pay more attention when eating fruits. Pregnant women should avoid eating "cold fruits" (such as frozen watermelons) when choosing fruits, otherwise it will stimulate the stomach, lead to diarrhea and easily lead to premature delivery. There is a folk saying that "one litchi has three fires". Litchi is a warm food, and it is easy to get angry when eaten too much, which will lead to constipation, toothache, facial scabies, oral ulcers and other diseases. Therefore, when choosing fruits, you should eat them according to your own situation.
What food does Chang Xia eat?
Eggs (of hens)
Eating eggs in the long summer can not only stand the test of "summer", but also bring a complete life.
There is a custom of eating eggs in long summer, which can prevent common symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation in summer. Eggs have the effect of calming the nerves and nourishing the heart.
Black rice cake
Black rice cake is also one of the traditional long summer snacks in Ningbo. It is made by mashing black leaves and soaking them in water, soaking glutinous rice with black leaf juice to dye it black, then steaming the soaked black glutinous rice with sugar and pressing it into glutinous rice cake by hand, which has a faint black leaf flavor.
Wheat silkworm
During the long summer festival, farmers in suburban counties of Shanghai make strips of wheat flour and sugar, which are called "wheat silkworms". When people eat them, they can avoid "summer".
In the long summer, tender grass heads and rice noodles are fried into cakes, which are called "stalls" and are deeply loved by Shanghai and Pudong people. Sugar plum, fermented grains, salted eggs, etc. It is also a seasonal food, calling it fresh and tasting it "three new".