"Because this custom is obviously different from other regions. In other words, it is unique to Ningbo. " The formation of solar terms customs is often based on agricultural time and related to the time sequence and mode of production activities. The cultivation of solar terms eating habits is closely related to the crops that can be harvested in the season, and solar terms customs often entrust people with good wishes. From the long summer to the beginning of the busy farming season, people naturally want to be "healthy", so eating "bamboo shoots with feet and bones" has become an excuse for people to pray for health.
Although few people want to do farm work now, the custom of eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" is firmly remembered. Whether using traditional black bamboo shoots, wild bamboo shoots or ordinary thunder bamboo shoots, the focus of eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" lies in the shape. Bamboo shoots are chopped flat and cut into a section of about 4 cm, which looks like foot bones. Eat it to be "healthy".
2. Compared with eating "foot bone bamboo shoots", cooking black rice is a little niche, and its niche is mainly because the leaves of Chinese tallow making black rice are relatively rare in cities. Picking sapium sebiferum leaves is similar to picking tea. Pick the tender ones with some red buds. "Long summer is the time when it germinates. After the long summer, the bud is old. "
Cleaning the picked Chinese tallow leaves, crushing them, soaking them in clear water 12 ~ 24 hours, then filtering and draining them, and cooking them with glutinous rice to obtain black rice. "Although Chinese tallow leaves usually have no taste, once they are steamed into rice, they smell fragrant. The more leaves, the darker the color and the stronger the aroma. " Jiang Weiding still remembers that people used to mash, smooth and cut steamed black rice into various shapes.
Because in the long summer, this day is the most critical and important beginning of summer nourishment.
3, colorful silk thread, holding a cooked duck egg, one hand, seeing the egg in a friend's hand, bump it and break the eggshell. On this day in the long summer, children like to play this game of breaking eggs. 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. Whoever breaks the egg loses, and whoever doesn't break the egg to the end is king.
Because of simplicity, the custom of Ningbo people eating eggs in summer has been passed down to this day. People in Ningbo eat not only eggs, but also plums, bamboo shoots and sea cucumbers. "It is said that eating green plums can improve eyesight, and bamboo shoots and sea cucumbers (a kind of shellfish that grows in local waters) can make the bones of feet strong."
Riding threshold
"Chang Xia, pull out the table and stool." According to the custom of the old foundation, Ningbo people have the habit of enjoying the cool in the yard in the long summer that night, and parents should let their children ride on the threshold. It is said that this can eliminate all diseases.
It is not enough to sit on the threshold and ponder Geely. Adults often like to give their children some extra "homework"-eating "foot bones" bamboo shoots or eating a bowl of cold soup. The soup is cold. It is said that a long summer can keep the skin smooth, and there will be no boils in one summer, while eating "foot bones" bamboo shoots in the long summer means "foot bones are healthy", which is also an excuse for people to pray for health.