1, summer solstice?

Wonton is very popular in Wuxi on the solstice of summer. In ancient times, on the solstice of summer, people offered sacrifices to the gods in order to pray for the disaster to disappear and to be rich in the coming year. In the Qing dynasty, the worship of gods became more popular from summer to the sun, and the Japanese had to eat pasta to show their respect for the gods. It can be seen that on the solstice of summer, northerners eat noodles and Wuxi people eat wonton, all of which are pious sacrifices to God. ?

According to historical records, in the court of the Song Dynasty, every summer solstice, the royal chef would pack a kind of summer solstice wonton for the queens to eat. In fact, the court of the Song Dynasty not only ate wonton in the summer solstice season, but also ate wonton in the other 23 solar terms of the year. Therefore, there was a famous pastry named "Twenty-four solar terms wonton" in the court of the Song Dynasty, and Gaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty especially loved wonton. ?

2. Little summer heat?

A few days before and after the Summer Festival, there is a folk custom of "hanging hundreds of suozi on the house". White lock, also known as five-color silk thread, is tied around a child's arm or neck during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is believed to ward off evil spirits. In ancient China, five colors were worshipped, which were auspicious colors. Therefore, in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first important thing for adults after getting up is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks.

Children are not allowed to talk when tying the thread. The five-color line should not be broken or discarded at will, and can only be thrown into the river during a heavy rain in summer or the first bath. It is said that children wearing five-color lines can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions and throw them into the river, which means that the river will wash away plagues and diseases and make children safe and healthy.

3. Hot?

In Taizhou Bay, Zhejiang Province, there is a custom of "sending a summer boat". It is a folk custom to send a summer boat to Jia in Jiaojiang, Zhejiang. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, epidemics often occurred here, especially in the hot summer. People think that this is caused by the five evil spirits, so they built five shrines on the riverside, and even on the day of the Summer Festival, they sent offerings to Jiaojiangkou with special wooden boats. The meaning is obvious, that is, send away the plague and pray for peace. ?

It is said that as early as the 1920s, the "Summer Boat" in Taizhou Bay was the largest and famous. Every lunar summer, the folk custom of "sending a boat to spend the summer" in Zhi Zhi officially plays the banner of "fishing holiday", and the activities are very prosperous. ?

4. Winter solstice

In the north of China, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast in the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year every year, regardless of whether the family is rich or not. As the saying goes, "On 10/day, when winter solstice comes, every family eats jiaozi." The origin of this custom is because Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", gave up medicine in the winter solstice.

5.xiaoxue

"Eating Ciba when light snow comes" is a traditional custom in Jiangnan water town. At this time of year, adults and children will talk about it: what's the date today? There are still a few days to go to Xiaoxue. Whose glutinous rice has been ground, whose is still drying in the field.

At this time, the children are very excited and feel like the New Year. Sometimes the weather is bad and the glutinous rice harvest is late. Adults are not prepared to cook, but they can't beat children, so they try to borrow some to cook.