Lixia, or Start of Summer, one of the 24 solar terms that often 1 on May 5.
Chinese eat seasonally. A more interesting food custom2 Lixia is the way children eat and play with eggs. Parents put boiled eggs into small mesh bags, and hang them on their children's chests. Egg fighting starts when a child goes to meet their friends, each 3 one egg, and colliding until one side breaks the shell. The one whose egg is not broken 4.
Xia Yanming, 43, who now lives in Beijing, comes from Taizhou, Zhejiang. "I was told by my parents that duck eggs could 5 the fire in our body, and enhance our bones and muscles. On Lixia, 6 duck eggs were cooked, and I was asked to eat at least three. And my mother always 7 the most turquoise (青色的) ones from a big basket for me. It is said the turquoise ones have the 8 nutrition (营养)," Xia says.
"I remember that I didn't like to cat egg yolks. However, my parents said that if I didn't eat the yolk, the 9 of my feet would be weak, and I wouldn't be able to walk quickly. Luckily, I listened, or I might have lost the 10 to jog, a routine that I love."
