"Xiaxia" is a disease name unique to traditional Chinese medicine. The weather is hot in summer, and people tend to lose their appetite, feel thirsty from time to time, and lose weight. If you have these symptoms, it is usually "summer heat". Beginning of summer is also called "Xiaxia" in Taizhou Linhai and other places. Do you know what customs there are in Taizhou? Let’s take a look below.
Eating wheat cakes on the day of the Beginning of Summer is also a festival for Wenling people to eat wheat cakes. There is a folk proverb in Wenling: Drunk in summer and eating wheat cakes, you will be a worldly person in vain, which means that on the day of the Beginning of Summer, if you don't eat wheat cakes, then your life will be in vain, and you will value it more than anything else.
In the "Taizhou Waishu" compiled by Qing Dynasty phonology expert Qi Xuebiao (now a native of Zeguo Town, Wenling), there is also a record of wrapping meat in pancakes at the beginning of summer and eating the vegetables with a bitter taste, which is called drunken summer. . This is probably a food custom common in all parts of Taizhou. Taizhou media once reported that according to the custom in Linhai and Tiantai areas, every household has to eat a tube of wheat fat (called a dumpling tube by Tiantai people). The reporter wrote: Wheat grease is also called a pancake tube. It is indeed made of flour pancakes, stuffed with vegetables and meat, and wrapped into a tube shape. One of the poems "Zanxia (Lixia Festival)" collected by Mr. Linhai Ye Zecheng from Linhai Festival customs says: Eat cakes like rolls, stir-fry bean sprouts and side dishes with gluten. The store owner borrowed a scale to weigh how much he weighed this year. The custom of calling people at the beginning of summer is also mentioned here.
Smell the aroma and recognize wheat cakes. The wheat cakes made of wheat that Wenling people eat on a daily basis generally include the following types: wheat cakes, wiping cakes (also written as food cakes, mat cakes, tin cakes, etc.), Fry wheat in oil (the method is similar to that of wiping pancakes, but they are thicker and rougher than wiping pancakes). The most popular foods eaten during the Beginning of Summer and Dragon Boat Festival are wheat cakes made with ground berries (Purple grass, rat grass, the raw materials for making yellow flower wheat fruits written in Zhou Zuo's works), ramie (hemp) leaves, etc. The so-called ground berries that Wenling people call include real ground berries and false ground berries. The so-called real ground berries are the kind of phlox that blooms with yellow flowers. The false ground berries do not have yellow flowers, but they can also be used to make wheat cakes. However, according to some people's reports, it is difficult to find ground berries in the fields now, and most people still use ramie leaves to make wheat cakes.
After making the wheat cakes, you have to prepare the fillings. The fillings of the wheat cakes eaten by Wenling people depend on the family’s financial situation. Pork, pork liver, mung bean sprouts, scrambled eggs (egg or duck eggs, some are scrambled eggs with chives), dried tofu, potatoes, radish, shrimp, pomfret, oyster patties (Aohuan people say this is their specialty stuffing), eel, wild rice, radish, cuttlefish, mudskipper, pickles , fried noodles, and onions depending on family preferences. People in Shitang have a saying about this stuffing, which is that it is not fresh without fish, not oily without meat, not fragrant without eggs, not loose without mung bean sprouts, which can be said to be the deepest samadhi in it.
In addition to eating wheat cakes, the day of Beginning of Summer is also a day for trying new things in various places. Wenzhou people have the custom of eating shad at the beginning of summer. We Linhai people in Taizhou have the custom of eating ginger juice at the beginning of summer. In addition, we also have the custom of eating eggs (tea eggs), pigeon eggs, quail eggs and black rice and mochi (people in Wenling Xinhe, Daxi, Zeguo and other places) Then eat black rice and mochi on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, which is the Buddha’s birthday and the Ox’s birthday.) Tiantai people have the custom of banging eggs in the Beginning of Summer, which is to bang hard-boiled eggs or tea eggs to see whose eggs are not afraid of being touched and are strong.
In addition to the customs related to eating, there is also the custom of weighing people at the beginning of summer. It is said that weighing people at the beginning of summer can avoid summer. Legend has it that this custom originated from the Three Kingdoms period. Liu Bei's son Adou's biological mother passed away. Liu Bei wanted to recruit relatives in Soochow and wanted to go to war. He asked Zhao Yun to entrust Adou to Mrs. Sun. Mrs. Sun was the stepmother and was afraid of being gossiped about. In front of Zhao Yun, he called him Adou. At the beginning of summer next year, he would weigh himself again and report to Liu Bei to show his dedication. The people followed suit and it became a custom.
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