What does Quzhou eat in the long summer?

There is a saying in Quzhou that "the south wind comes and the barley is yellow". Because the southwest wind prevailed in the long summer, it was fashionable to eat wheat cakes and steamed bread in the long summer in the old society, which indicated that the new wheat had been listed. There are two kinds of cakes, sweet and salty. The sweet one, filled with brown sugar, is called "old shell cake". The salty ones are scallion oil, pickles and pork. Some shops sell apple crisp, horseshoe crisp, steamed bread strips and so on. Jiang Shan Chang Xia wants to eat "Chang Xia Tang". The custom of long summer in Quzhou includes weighing people and beating eggs.

"Long summer is called a person, hanging on the beam and laughing." According to the folk saying, after Chang Xia weighed himself on this day, he was not afraid of the summer heat and would not lose weight. In the early years, people would hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or platform, and a stool was hung on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns to sit on the stool and weigh people. It's interesting for the person in charge to see people say different auspicious words. For example, the old man said, "If you weigh 87, you will live to 9 1", and the girl said, "If you weigh 105 pounds, people outside your home will find you. Don't be unwilling, don't be unwilling, the son of the top scholar is predestined, "the child said." If you hit twenty-three again, the young official will grow up. Seven county officials should not be guilty, and three public officials and nine ministers should climb. "

"Fighting Eggs in the Long Summer" is an exclusive game for children and a custom in many places in the south of the Yangtze River. On the day of long summer, mothers will prepare eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs for their children. They can also prepare three kinds of eggs at the same time, and then wrap them in nets so that children can beat eggs with other friends. The rules of the game are also very simple, that is, both sides take out their hardest eggs and collide with each other to see who breaks them first. Those who don't break them are winners, and losers usually give lost eggs as trophies to winners. In some places, adults will weave egg covers with colored threads, put boiled eggs and duck eggs in them, and let children hang eggs on their chests.