The story of long summer.
As for the story of Long Summer, Long Summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in summer. The long summer customs vary from place to place, but each has its own characteristics, which all reflect the characteristics of China folk culture. Let's share a story about Long Summer.
The story of long summer 1 the story of long summer.
There is a custom of weighing people after lunch in the long summer. People hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or platform, and a stool is hung on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and weigh people. When weighing flowers, the caller said auspicious words. The old man will say that he spent eighty-seven on the scale and lived to ninety-one.
The weighing girl said 105 kg, and people outside the school came to see you. Unwilling, unwilling, unwilling, the champion is doomed. It takes a dozen or twenty-three children to weigh children, and young officials will grow up. Seven county officials should not be confused, and three officials and nine ministers should climb.
Weighing flowers can only be typed in (that is, from decimal to large number), but not outside. Legend has it that Zhuge Liang is related to the stories of Meng Huo and Liu Adou. It is said that after Meng Huo was surrendered to Shu by Zhuge Liang, he took orders from Zhuge Liang.
On his deathbed, Zhuge Liang entrusted Meng Huo to visit the master of Shu once a year. Zhuge Liang instructed that day, which happened to be the long summer of this year. Meng Huo immediately went to worship Adou. Since then, every summer, Meng Huo has promised to visit Shu.
A few years later, Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, destroyed Shu and took Adou away. Meng Huo did not forget the entrustment of the Prime Minister. Every year, Chang Xia led troops to Luoyang to visit Dou E, and every time he went, he weighed Dou E to verify whether Dou E was abused by Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty. He threatened to fight Kim if he mistreated Dou.
In order to accommodate Meng Huo, every year in the long summer, Emperor Wu of Jin used glutinous rice and peas to make lunch for Adou. Dou saw that peas were glutinous and fragrant, and he ate them twice. Meng Huo weighed people in the city, weighing several kilograms more each time than the previous year.
Although Adou has no skill, he has Meng Huo's reputation as a man in the long summer, and Emperor Wu of Jin did not dare to bully him, so he lived a quiet and happy life and lived a long and happy life. Although this legend is different from historical facts, what people want is a peaceful and happy world. People who weigh in the long summer will bring good luck to Adou, and people also pray to God to bring them good luck.
The short legend of long summer
Legend one
Long summer is still a traditional festival for four years old. On the long summer day of the Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Tiandi led three officials, nine ministers and all doctors to welcome the summer in the suburbs south of the city. And held a ceremony to worship Zhu Rong, the former emperor. The Han dynasty also followed this custom. The Book of Sacrifice in the Later Han Dynasty reads: "On the day of long summer, we welcome summer, and all the southern suburbs worship Chi Di, and the car flags and costumes are all red." The song "Zhu Ming" and the dance "Dancing with Wings". In the Song Dynasty, etiquette became more complicated.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that there was a "taste of new customs". In the Qing Dynasty, "Ji Sheng at the age of Emperor Jingdi" contained that "spring buds of rice noodles that are usually exposed outside are taken in long summer, fried into various fruit stacks with sugar noodles, and fed to each other". Willow branches are folded into fruits, which are children's food. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is also the custom of eating flowers and rice in the long summer, and some people call it "food supplement". There is also the folk custom that "eggs are eaten in the long summer and stones are crushed". It is said that eating eggs and duck eggs in long summer can enhance physical fitness and resist summer heat.
Some people eat bamboo shoots in the long summer and some people drink them in the long summer, which is called "seeing three novelty in the long summer". In the southern region, in the old days, every family steamed new tea and gave it to relatives and neighbors with various fruits.
Legend 2
The second legend about "calling people" in the Long Summer is related to Liu Chan, the last ruler of Shu in the Three Kingdoms period.
At the end of the Three Kingdoms, Shu, which was managed by the late ruler Liu Chan, was already very weak. This year, the general of Wei, Deng Ai, was ordered to lead an army to attack Shu, and the soldiers were forced to surrender. Zheng Zheng, a loyal minister in Shu, proposed to Wargo that "Liu Chan is the king of a country. After surrendering to Dewey, he can't be abused or lose a little meat, otherwise he would rather die than surrender". Wargo agreed to this condition.
After Liu Chan surrendered, he was taken to Luoyang, the capital of Wei at that time. Duke Wei named him an Anle Gong and gave him a house, ten thousand silks and satins and a hundred beautiful women. From then on, Liu Chan ate and drank to his heart's content and was not ashamed of forgetting his country.
The next year, Liu Chan was called to weigh himself, but instead of losing weight, the king who forgot his country gained more than 20 kilograms. This day also happens to be the beginning of summer. There is a poem in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that says, "Laugh and play, and worry about it." If you are happy in a foreign land and forget your old country, you will know that your late master was a mediocrity. "
The Story of Long Summer 2' The Story of Long Summer'
There is an interesting story about this solar term. It is said that Chang Yuchun, a general under Zhu Yuanzhang, was arrested. Later, he rescued General Chang from prison. In order to show his achievements, the jailer told Chang Yuchun to weigh himself in front of the emperor and found that he was not thin, but ten kilograms heavier than last year. Coincidentally, this day is also summer.
Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and said with a smile, "Good, good, long summer and long summer are called people, and they are all called people." Since then, the legend of "Man" in the long summer has spread among the people.
What are the customs?
(1) welcome summer: this is rare today, but in ancient times, people attached great importance to long summer. The emperor will lead the civil and military officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. You need to wear a red Yu Pei, and even the flags of horses and cars should be red to express your prayers for a bumper harvest.
2 Eat "long summer eggs": People think that eating eggs on this day can strengthen the body. On the day before the festival, eggs or duck eggs are boiled with tea powder or walnut shells at home. The eggshell turns red slowly, and the house is full of fragrance.
③ Eating "long summer rice": Jiangnan has the custom of cooking tender broad beans, and then adding condiments such as bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans and amaranth to the rice, which means "five grains are abundant".
What flowers will bloom at this time?
Petunia: It is a very common variety. Funnel-shaped, double petals, white, purple or all kinds of red, and inlaid with other colors. Very beautiful, with large and numerous flowers, rich flowers and rich colors.
Pansy: Because its flowers are purple, white and yellow, it is named pansy. Mainly suitable for outdoor planting, regardless of flower beds, gardens and potted plants.
Blue iris: also known as blue butterfly and purple butterfly, it has green leaves and large and strange flowers, just like a colorful butterfly, which is very ornamental.
The Story of Long Summer 3 The Custom Allusions of Long Summer
Fighting eggs.
Every household cooks eggs with shells with clear water, without damage. Soak in cold water for a few minutes, take it out, put on a woven silk bag and hang it around the child's neck. The children beat eggs in small groups.
An egg has two heads, the pointed one is the head and the round one is the tail. When you beat eggs, the head of the egg hits the head of the egg and the tail of the egg hits the tail of the egg. Fight one by one, the loser gives up, and finally the high and low are separated. The winner of the egg head is the first, and the egg is king; The winner of the egg is the second place, and the egg is called Xiao Wang or Er Wang.
Long summer rice.
Lunch on the day of long summer is glutinous rice mixed with peas. There must be boiled eggs, whole bamboo shoots and peas with shells on the table. Eggs are eaten in pairs and bamboo shoots are eaten in pairs, no matter how many peas there are.
According to folklore, eating eggs in the long summer "goes to his heart", and eating eggs can keep the vitality; Eating bamboo shoots depends on the legs, which are as strong as bamboo shoots and can walk a long way; Peas with shells are shaped like eyes. Eat peas and pray for eyes to stay away from diseases and disasters.
Eat broad beans.
According to folklore, eating broad beans can strengthen the waist and tonify the kidney, and transplanting rice seedlings and ploughing the fields will not make you feel tired. On this day of long summer, many places in the south of the Yangtze River will string cooked broad beans into necklaces for children to wear.
In addition, there is a saying that plums are eaten for beauty in the long summer. "The Nazi Edition of Moon Order" said: "Eating plums in the long summer can make the color beautiful." Yes On the long summer day, local women squeezed plums into juice and mixed them with wine, thinking that they could stay young for a long time. This synthetic beverage is called "resident wine".
Weigh people.
A large wooden scale is hung at the entrance of the village or platform, and a bench or laundry basket is hung on the scale hook. People take turns to weigh themselves. When weighing flowers, the caller says auspicious words. The ancient poem goes: "Long summer is called a person, hanging beam laughs."
The custom of "calling people" on the day of long summer is mainly popular in the south of China and originated in the Three Kingdoms period. It is said that after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang sent his son Adou to Zhao Zilong and Jiangdong to be raised by his stepmother, Mrs. Wu Guosun, who had returned to her family.
It was long summer, and Mrs. Sun called Adou in front of Zhao Zilong. The next year, Chang Xia called him again to see how much he had gained, and then wrote to Zhuge Liang to report, thus forming a custom introduced into the people. It is said that after weighing yourself on this day, you will not be afraid of the heat in summer, and you will not lose weight, otherwise you will be troubled by diseases.
There are some taboos in summer, such as
1. Don't sit on the stone steps. If you sit on the stone steps, you have to sit on seven steps in one breath, so that all diseases can dissipate.
2. avoid sitting on the threshold, saying that sitting on the threshold this day will make you tired and disgusting in summer. The "Ningguo County Records" in the 1930s also recorded: "If you weigh the human body in the long summer, you will be free from illness, so you are not afraid of summer. It is said that sitting on the threshold in the long summer will be depressed for a year. "
If you sit on the threshold, you have to sit on the composite number of six "sevens" to understand it.