The first summer is still clear, and the grass is not resting.
Start of Summer is the seventh solar term in the 24 solar terms and the first solar term of summer. Lixia, said farewell to spring, is the beginning of summer, all things have grown up so far, so the name "Lixia" also.
Three seasons in summer: the first season of playing cricket; Earthworm emerges after two seasons; Three hou king melon.
After the start of summer, the sunshine increases, gradually heats up, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter the stage of robust growth.
Customs of beginning of summer
Eat eggs
As the saying goes, the beginning of summer eat eggs, hot days not 疰夏. During the beginning of summer, adults weave egg sets with silk thread, fill them with boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs, and hang them on children\'s chests to prevent 疰夏. Some also paint patterns on the eggs, and the children compete with each other, which is called fighting eggs. In addition, eating a Start of summer egg is not only a reward before hard work, but also a wish for peace and harvest.
weigher
On the day of Start of Summer, people in the countryside like to put a rod of scales at the entrance of the village or in densely populated places for weighing people. Everyone sits on the scale one by one, and the person who helps to weigh the weight of each person says something lucky, asking for a good prize.
Drink Lixia tea
There is a folk custom of drinking tea on this day of the start of summer, which means that drinking tea can easily pass the summer, if you don\'t drink it, it will be bitter summer. Moreover, on the day of Start of Summer, women would gather tea from seven families and cook it together, saying that drinking tea from seven families in start of summer would ensure that they would not feel sleepy throughout the summer.
Eat pasta
Beginning of Summer is the season when wheat comes into play, so in most northern regions there is the custom of making and eating pasta to celebrate the wheat harvest. There are three main kinds of pasta at the beginning of summer: summer cake, flatbread and spring rolls.
Start of summer health
Light diet
After the start of summer, the temperature gradually rises, people will inevitably feel irritated and so on. The hot weather also reduces the appetite. Therefore, in dietary maintenance, you can not always eat several foods that you prefer to eat, nor can you overeat, and should be low-fat, low-salt, multi-vitamin and light.
Ease one\'s mood
In the early summer season, people\'s metabolism is accelerated, the heart and brain blood supply is insufficient, often make people irritable, tired and lazy, so the beginning of summer health should be "stop anger and stop mania", pay attention to "rest", avoid great happiness and anger, to maintain a good mood, calm and relaxed, smiling. You can do some quiet things, such as painting, fishing, calligraphy, chess, planting flowers and so on.
Peaceful movement
After the start of summer, as the temperature rises, people are easy to sweat, sweat is the liquid of the heart, so pay attention to not excessive sweating during the start of summer, and drink warm water appropriately after exercise to replenish body fluids. The sports chosen in this season should not be too intense, and you can choose relatively peaceful sports such as Taijiquan, Taiji sword, walking, jogging, etc.