“Suddenly warm and wind, follow Xiaoshu.” Today, we usher in the eleventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms-Xiaoshu. With the continued high temperature weather, more frequent thunder and lightning, and rainfall, midsummer has begun, and the scorching heat is just around the corner.
climate
One-third of a day’s heat is important to cool off
According to the “Monthly Order Seventy-two Hou Jijie” records: “June Festival…Summer, heat is divided into large and small according to the heat, the beginning of the month is small, the middle of the month is big, and today the heat is still small.” In the sense of heat, the day of Xiaoshu is the beginning of the heat of the year.
The ancients divided Xiaoshu into three epochs: “The first quarter is warm and wind; the second quarter crickets live in the world; the third quarter eagles begin to be prey.” Warm air. In nature, crickets leave the fields to find a cool place to live. The ground temperature is too high and the eagle keeps flying high. This step-by-step heat really paved the way for the scorching heat of the “three fuss”.
As the saying goes: “When the festival comes to the summer, the sun will enter the sky, and the sky will become impermanent and the rain will continue.” The arrival of the Xiaoshu indicates that the “dog days” will begin soon. With the increase of rain and the increase of temperature, the summer sultry and humid sensation intertwined with heat and humidity rushes to the face.
Facing the scorching sun, how to cool off the heat is the most important thing. Today there are air-conditioning fans, but in ancient times, the ancients used to “shake the light fan and lean on the rope bed”, lightly swing the fan or drink cold drinks, eat ice food, etc. According to the records of “Tokyo Menghualu”, Kaifeng market sells “Ice and Snow Leng Yuanzi”, “Raw Flooded Papaya”, and “Cold Water Lychee Cream”, etc., which are really good for relieving the heat.
custom
“Shixin” eats noodles and hangs clothes to hang paintings and calligraphy
Tasting new rice, eating dumplings, drying paintings and calligraphy, drying clothes… In the summer season, there have been many activities that are timely and rich and interesting.
In ancient times, the folks emphasized Xiaoshu’s “food new” to welcome a good harvest, that is, every household would eat new rice and taste new wine after the Xiaoshu. Farmers will grind the newly cut rice into rice and make fragrant rice for offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors of the grains, in order to thank nature for gifts and celebrate the harvest of grains.
As the summer weather gets hotter, people tend to lose their appetite. In order to understand Shushengjin and appetite to relieve gluttons, the folks have a food custom of “head-fu dumplings, two-fu noodles, and three-fu pancake stalls and eggs”. Among them, there is a record of eating noodles in Furi as early as the Three Kingdoms period.
According to the “Wei Shi Chun Qiu” record: “Fu sun eclipse soup cake, take a towel to wipe sweat, the complexion is bright”, the soup cake here refers to hot noodle soup. The Southern Dynasties Liang Dynasty’s “Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji” also wrote: “Jin Fu day into the soup, called the evil.” In the eyes of the ancients, sweating can drive away disease, that is, “eliminate evil.”
In addition, the folks have the custom of eating lotus root in Xiaoshu, and “yellow eel, lotus root, and mung bean sprouts” are known as the “Three Treasures” of Xiaoshu, and they are all foods for cooling and relieving summer heat.
In addition to these traditional food customs, there are also the customs of “June 6th, sun red and green” and “June 6th, people drying clothes and dragons and robes”. Dry the clothes, calligraphy, etc. in the house in the sun to remove moisture and moisture, prevent mildew and moth.
(Source: People’s Daily Online, Henan Government Network)Return to Sohu to see more
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