Xiangshan people have passed the local custom of long summer.
1. Boiled eggs and beaten eggs
On the day of long summer, eating long summer eggs is a local custom. On the night before the long summer, housewives cook long summer eggs, including boiled eggs and tea eggs.
If there are children at home, the housewife will personally weave the "egg complex", dye the eggs red and put them in the egg complex. The children hung on their heads and necks, holding a few in their hands, and happily ran out to play egg-beating games with the children. The hard eggshells of each family collide with each other, and the one with unbreakable eggshells wins. There is a difference between the hard shell and the wide shell at both ends of an egg. You have to beat the empty shell to win.
String broad beans together.
Use a cotton thread, string it with broad beans and hang it around your neck. This long summer custom is the childhood memory of Xiangshan people. A long broad bean necklace can be used for one day.
There is an anti-Japanese history behind eating broad bean skewers in long summer. A historical story about Qi Jiguang's Anti-Japanese War: It is said that Qi Jiguang led his troops to fight against the Japanese pirates along the coast of Yuyao, and Qi Jiajun fought bravely and was invincible. Every time a soldier kills an enemy, he will pick a broad bean and string it on his chest. The number of broad beans represents the number of people who killed the enemy, and the number of beans is used as a reward. Therefore, in Xiangshan, broad beans are also called "Japanese beans".
Cross the threshold
Long summer, pull out the table and bench. According to the custom of the old foundation, on the same day of long summer, Xiangshan people have the habit of enjoying the cool in the yard that night, and parents should let their children ride on the threshold. It is said that this can eliminate all diseases.
4. Long summer tonic
Establish a summer diet: Starting from breakfast, there must be a complete bowl of long bamboo shoots on the family table, which means supporting the bones of the feet, because after a long busy summer, farmers have to rely on "healthy feet" to work. Eat fresh bean seeds and cook a bowl of meat with taro (just listed); A bowl of soft vegetables with leaves as big as a cattail leaf fan means cool in hot summer. When family members drink "egg blossom wine", they will also eat long summer rice cooked with broad beans and potatoes, and there are other excellent dishes on the table, such as steamed white snapper, fried yellow croaker with vermicelli, dried squid and so on.
There is an old saying in the local area: "A thousand supplements are not as good as a long summer supplement". Due to the fatigue of farm work, I have to mend my body and bones for my family. This period of summer is the best time for food supplement. Soft vegetables (Junta vegetables), potatoes and broad beans, long summer rice, egg wine.
5. Chang Xia weighed himself.
On this day of long summer, there is a local custom of calling people. In rural areas, people carry big scales to weigh adults and children and measure their health. Due to the arrival of hot summer, some people will lose weight in summer, which is commonly known as "summer". After a Xia Hou, you can compare with the weight of Chang Xia.
This custom can be traced back to the Empress Dou in the Three Kingdoms period. Legend has it that after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang gave Liu Bei's son to his stepmother, Mrs Sun, to take good care of him. It was a long summer. Mrs. Sun weighed herself in front of her and said it again next summer to see how much weight she had gained. Later, it was passed down as a custom of long summer.