Count the customs of the June 6th Aunt

Yesterday morning to pick up the shoe and found that after a rainy season, the winter shoes are moldy, simply clean out the sun. Open the phone to work, friends circle brush is the same message Yesterday is the lunar calendar "June sun and red green" days, positive children of the "Obsidian Festival" or the traditional Chinese festival. The news from the Internet, June 6, the solar terms are different. Beijingers called "wash-drying Festival" also known as "drying through the festival", in many places, also called "sky festival" or "aunt's festival", although the name is different, but one thing is basically uniform, that is, . Lunar New Year's Day sixth lunar month, coincides with the summer heat has just begun, some people say that summer is boiling days, the same heat as cooking. Old Beijing has a lot of folklore: bathing, drying things, wash like, sun, reward and so on. At this time the rainy season has just ended, many do not wear clothing made a mold, to take out exposure. Fuzhou, the old Mr. Fang told me that Fuzhou, "Milky Way Festival" this day, we should use well water bath, sun painting. Elders use large basins filled with water, exposed to the sun, until the children warm bathing. The dog at home, rushed to the river inside to take a bath. Bathing with a pot is fun, used to be often seen in rural areas, and farmer households sun dried pots of water. Solar terms is the wisdom of the farming era, the Lunar New Year Dragon Boat Festival requires children to take a bath in May, June 6 there is a "day of big wash," about also to prevent disease!

There is also an understanding that this day is the day of collective hot springs in Fuzhou. Some studies have shown that hot springs in summer is a good way to refresh the heat, soaked in hot springs, the pores will soon open, is conducive to the heat distribution. Hot springs around Fuzhou, the summer will be spray ice fog to reduce the temperature of the pool edge to create a fantastic effect, I feel good.