Two girls from the affiliated kindergarten of Rugao Foreign Language School in Rugao, a county-level city in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, paint eggs on May 6 to celebrate the Start of Summer (Chinese: 立夏), the 7th solar term of the year, which began on May 6 and ends on May 21 this year. [Photo/IC]

Festivities for the special day generally include eating eggs, painting eggs, having "egg battles", and weighing people.

In ancient China, people believed a round egg symbolized a happy life and eating eggs on the Start of Summer would bring good health.