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What is the significance of burning eggs on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month?

In infancy, some inexplicable disasters are inevitable. Have loose bowels, cry at night and so on. Some symptoms can be treated with traditional Chinese and western medicine, and some symptoms can not be treated by all doctors. But there is one way for the people, and that is to burn eggs. When I caught a cold and had diarrhea, I went to the old man sitting on the altar. After reading it, the old man will hold the eggs you brought, burn incense and recite spells. Then he would throw the egg into the burning chaff, stew it, peel it while it was hot, put a small piece of tattoo silver in the cooked egg and roll it on the child's stomach and chest. After this simple procedure is completed, the sick child will be healthy the next day.

If a child cries for no reason, loses appetite, loses weight and has green poop, we country people all know that the child must be frightened. The old class said that at the beginning of the child's experience, his mind was pure and his eyes were bright, and he could see things that adults could not see. If you take your child through a pickled place or a hidden place, the child may be frightened. Such symptoms are very dangerous if you don't go to the old man sitting on the altar to bluff. Burn eggs even if you are bluffing. Boiled eggs will become all kinds of strange shapes after being peeled off, which are all kinds of monsters. After the child is finished, the old man sitting on the altar will wrap some worshipped and cursed rice grains with a small piece of black cloth and hang them on the child's chest with black lines. In a few days, the child will return to normal.

There is a custom of burning eggs all over the country. Some people burn eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. In Sichuan, every year at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, every household in the countryside has to burn wood blocks, so they take out the burnt red charcoal and put it in a big baking cage, which is covered with firewood ash. Wait until noon 12, calculate the total number of people in the family, prepare a corresponding number of eggs, and put them in a roast cage with red charcoal. Take it out and eat it when it is cooked. You can eat the original flavor of eggs and the unique flavor of barbecue. Some people burn eggs on July 7, saying that the eggs cooked on July 7 have fairy flavor, and eating them will make them smarter and more intelligent. In Jiashan, it is said that longan and boiled eggs are eaten every winter solstice.