Summer

Lu Xia is a seasonal illness, mainly due to the heat of the weather and the weakness of the physique. The ancients generally prevented the summer from two stages. The first stage started from "Lixia". There are many customs during this period. For example, Shanghai people have the custom of eating tea and eggs on the day of Lixia; the second stage starts from summer. "Summer solstice to prevent cricket summer", there are some customs of "eating" in various places, a recent person Hu Pu'an recorded in "Yi Zheng Chronicle": "Summer solstice, people study pea flour, block cane frost as cake, feed relatives, miscellaneous Peach and apricot blossom red fruits, said that the summer is not eaten. "