Why do you want to fight for eggs in changxia?

Long summer fights for eggs to prevent "summer disease". As the saying goes, "the egg chest hangs in the long summer, and children have no summer sickness." "Summer" is a common symptom in summer. Patients with abdominal distension, anorexia, fatigue and emaciation, especially children. People think that eating eggs in the long summer can ensure that children will not get sick in summer. Later, people gradually entertained long summer eggs, forming the custom of beating eggs in long summer.

The rule of beating eggs in the long summer: children are not in a hurry to eat the eggs in the long summer first, but come and fight first. Every friend carries a red woven bag, which is full of heavy eggs. In groups of three or five, everyone rubbed their hands and began to beat eggs. The rules for breaking eggs are simple. Eggs have two ends, 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. Give up one by one, and divide it into high and low. The final winner is "Egg King". When breaking eggs, children especially like to doodle and draw on them. Most girls draw pictures of rabbits, chickens and ducklings on them, which are lively and lovely. Boys like to draw lions, tigers and other beasts to show their domineering.

Traditional customs in the long summer 1. Welcome to Summer Ceremony: The word "long summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the long summer. On this day, the ancient emperor will lead the officials of civil and military affairs to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. The monarch and his subjects all wear red ceremonial costumes and red jade ornaments. Even horses and car flags should be red to express their prayers and good wishes for a bumper harvest. In the imperial court, "open the ice in summer and give it to the civil and military ministers." The ice was stored last winter and given to officials by the emperor.

2. Taste new things: There will be festivals such as tasting new things in the late long summer. For example, there is a saying in Suzhou that "three creations are seen in the long summer", and the three creations are cherries, plums and wheat, which are used for ancestor worship. In Changshu, there are more delicious foods that can be tasted, and there is a saying of "nine meats and thirteen vegetarian dishes". Nine kinds of meat are crucian carp, salted eggs, snail gizzard, quenched chicken, salted shrimp and cherry meat, and thirteen kinds of meat are cherry, plum, wheat silkworm (new wheat is cooked with thin strips), bamboo shoots, broad beans, spears, peas, cucumbers and lettuce. In Nantong, we eat boiled chicken and duck eggs.

3. Weighing people in the long summer: After lunch in the long summer, people hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or the 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, "weigh 87 and live to 91." The weighing girl said, "105 Jin, someone is looking for you outside." Unwilling, unwilling, the champion son has a fate. " The weighbridge said, "When the weighbridge is over ten or twenty-three, the young official will grow up. Seven county officials should not be guilty, and three public officials and nine ministers should climb. "