Today 3 when 3 minutes, nantong receives solar term of the Beginning of Summer. The Beginning of Summer is the traditional Chinese calendar the 7th solar term in 24 solar term, the first solar term of the summer, it is the beginning of the summer on agricultural meaning, it is a when crop enters busy season to grow significant solar terms. Be in this day, of the tradition of nothing is more... than that makes Nantong person impression most deep " fight an egg " consuetudinary, this also is the good memory of a lot of person childhood.
Nantong the Beginning of Summer when, the egg should be hanged before the child's bosom, this day of mom can prepare a string bag for the child, put in egg of egg, duck's egg, goose etc. Why should hang an egg? Be addicted to of god of plague of according to legend sleeps, till the day of the Beginning of Summer just wakes, medicinal powder epidemic disease of cloth of acute communicable diseases, the person that the egg is hanged before child child bosom most very. Female Wa hears the news, manage with argue of god of plague, god of plague is helpless admit, the day of the Beginning of Summer, the person that every hangs an egg before child child is uniform must not harm. Accordingly, the Beginning of Summer this day, children can hang an egg that thoroughly cook before the bosom.
"Frequently whose chorion is hard " , from this derive goes out " fight an egg " , game regulation is very simple: Everybody holds an egg severally, egg head strikes egg head, egg end strikes egg remaining part, bottle defeated housing to admit defeat, stay finally that fights infrangible small strong, by honour for " egg king " . In addition, still have game of a perpendicular egg, the egg gently ground rises in table vertical stroke, hold to time most better wins victory.
Fight after be finished, eat an egg naturally namely. Fry an egg, go up the egg, omelette, egg that stew, the Beginning of Summer this day of cate it may be said about the egg is have everything that one expects to find. Folk has a ballad saw: "Bosom of the Beginning of Summer hangs an egg, the child not a summer disease. " a summer disease is the abdomen with common summer goes up anorexia, lack of power and angular, child blame easy a summer disease. At this moment " epicure " people return meeting specially to do soup of egg of on one bowl of beet to drink, eat gram cake to wait, can prevent effectively so allegedly " a summer disease " .
The Beginning of Summer this day, nantong still has " weigh a person " consuetudinary. Arrived midday, register a level with a large bamboo or wicker basket " weigh a person " , weigh weight to child child. When saying, the counterbalance can be hanged outwards only, "Not perhaps " toward in move, newspaper number meets 9 sign up for " 10 " , the graph is auspicious. If the Beginning of Summer this day, weather is sunny, the child that can swim child still must issue a river to bathe, abdomen of adumbrative leg of this year of swimming won't be jerky. This day, housewife return the content such as insolate bedding, dress.
