{"id":3936,"date":"2019-11-19T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/li-xia-cheng-ren-weighing-in-and-wishing-for-a-pleasant-summer\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:19:37","slug":"li-xia-cheng-ren-weighing-in-and-wishing-for-a-pleasant-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/li-xia-cheng-ren-weighing-in-and-wishing-for-a-pleasant-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7acb\u590f\u79f0\u4eba Weighing in and wishing for a pleasant Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
 The Chinese tradition of checking one’s weight falls on Lixia(\u7acb\u590f), one of the 24 solar terms of the Lunar Calendar marking the beginning of Summer. In the old days when air co<\/em>nditioning was unheard of, the Chinese would weigh(\u79f0\u91cd\u91cf ch\u0113ng zhòngliàng) themselves on the first day of Summer, and hope for a cool(\u51c9\u723d\u7684 liángshu\u01ceng de) and pleasant(\u6021\u4eba\u7684 yírén de) season free of the heat(\u70ed rè) that often threatens weight(\u4f53\u91cd t\u01d0zhòng) loss. The weigh-in co<\/em>nsisted of the person stepping into a basket on the scale(\u79e4 chèng) as one would weigh vegetables at the market. In this series of photos taken a day before Lixia, which falls on May 6, people reenact this tradition by weighing their children in baskets. <\/p>\n
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\u91cd\u70b9\u8bcd\u6c47 Key Word:<\/div>\n
\u79f0<\/div>\n
<\u52a8\u8bcd v.> weigh; measure<\/div>\n
E.g. Q\u01d0ng g\u011bi w\u01d2 ch\u0113ng w\u01d4 g\u014dngj\u012bn dàm\u01d0.<\/div>\n
\u8bf7\u7ed9\u6211\u79f0\u4e94\u516c\u65a4\u5927\u7c73\u3002<\/div>\n
I’d like five kilogrammes of rice, please.<\/div>\n
<\u52a8\u8bcd v.> call; refer to somebody\/something as<\/div>\n
E.g. W\u01d2 g\u0101i z\u011bnme ch\u0113nghu n\u01d0 ne?<\/div>\n
\u6211\u8be5\u600e\u4e48\u79f0\u547c\u4f60\u5462?<\/div>\n
How would you like to be addressed?<\/div>\n
<\u540d\u8bcd n.> name; appellation<\/div>\n
E.g. S\u016bzh\u014du y\u01d2u “d\u014dngf\u0101ng W\u0113inís\u012b” zh\u012b ch\u0113ng.<\/div>\n
\u82cf\u5dde\u6709“\u4e1c\u65b9\u5a01\u5c3c\u65af”\u4e4b\u79f0\u3002<\/div>\n
Suzhou is said to be the "Venice of the Orient."<\/div>\n<\/div>\n