Summer solstice coincides with the harvest season of crops. Since ancient times, people have had the custom of celebrating harvest and offering sacrifices to ancestors at this time in order to pray for a good year. Therefore, the summer solstice, as a festival, was included in the ancient ritual of offering sacrifices to the gods. Some places will hold a grand "Summer Wheat Festival", which is the relic of the ancient "Summer Wheat Festival" activities. Summer and shelter: On the solstice of summer, women give each other folding fans, powder and other things.

2. "Summer solstice" food

"Wheat Zongzi" and "Summer Solstice Cake": Jiangnan food customs, generally including wheat Zongzi, corn millet, plums, wonton, noodle soup and so on. "Wujiang County Records": "On the summer solstice, make wheat dumplings." . After the first sacrifice, you pay for it. Not only eat "wheat dumplings", but also give them to each other as gifts.

On the day of summer solstice, farmers will roll pancakes, bake them, add vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon, eat them after ancestor worship, commonly known as "summer solstice cakes" or give them to relatives and friends. There is a folk proverb that "eating noodles on the solstice in summer will shorten the day".

Expand information about winter solstice customs.

In winter solstice, different places have different customs, and most places in northern China have the custom of eating jiaozi in winter solstice. After thousands of years of development, a unique seasonal diet culture has been formed from winter solstice to Sunday. Eating jiaozi has become the winter solstice custom of most northerners in China. Of course, there are exceptions, such as the custom of drinking mutton soup from winter solstice in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, which means driving away the cold.

1, Shandong Tengzhou mutton soup

It is said that the custom of eating mutton from winter solstice began in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, ate mutton cooked in Fan Kuai on the solstice of winter, which was particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating mutton from winter solstice has been formed among the people. On the solstice of winter, people eat mutton and various nourishing foods one after another in order to have a good omen for the coming year.

Now in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, this day is called Jiujiu. Before the festival, the elders will be given mutton and other gifts, and every household will drink mutton soup, which is a good sign for individuals, elders and families.

2. Jiangnan rice

In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice in the evening from winter to Sunday. According to legend, * * * Gong was a troubled wit who died in the winter. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

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