When it comes to the diet of the summer solstice, noodles are indispensable. As the saying goes: "Winter Solstice jiaozi Summer Solstice Noodles". It can be said that eating noodles on the summer solstice is a custom, which is popular in most parts of the country. Just as Pan Rongbi in the Qing Dynasty recorded in Ji Sheng at the age of Emperor Jing, "It is a day when furniture eats cold noodles, that is, it is said that the water surface is also". There is a saying about eating noodles in the summer solstice. Although the summer solstice is not the hottest time in summer, it means that hot summer is coming.
People began to adjust their diet from the summer solstice, taking low-calorie, easy-to-make, cool food as the main diet, and noodles are usually the first choice for ordinary families. Therefore, the summer solstice surface is also called the "subduction surface". On the summer solstice, noodles are generally eaten in all parts of the north, and people in Shandong eat noodles with cold water, commonly known as crossing the water. In the summer solstice, people eat noodles with soy sauce and Zhajiang Noodles in the north, but there are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dried noodle soup, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, noodles with sesame oil and cold noodles.
What's the significance of eating noodles on the summer solstice?
1, the original origin
In ancient times, on the day of the summer solstice, there was bound to be an activity of offering sacrifices to the gods. "Zhou Li Chun Guan" contains: "With the arrival of summer, to local things." It means eliminating epidemics, famine years and death from hunger. Before and after the summer solstice, wheat harvest and new flour came into the market, so in ancient times, pasta was used to worship God to celebrate the harvest, and pasta was eaten at the summer solstice.
2. The implication of noodles
On the summer solstice, the day is the longest and the night is the shortest. Noodles are the longest food, so the ancients chose to eat noodles on the summer solstice, hoping to eat them "short" during the day. Summer solstice folk saying: "After eating summer solstice noodles, a day is shorter." Therefore, noodles became the staple food of the ancient people in midsummer. When they ate the winter solstice, the daytime was the shortest, so they changed to eat the "shortest" jiaozi or wonton, and hoped that the daytime would become longer. Over time, the custom of "Winter solstice noodles in jiaozi" was formed.
3. From a realistic perspective
As we all know, the arrival of the summer solstice represents the arrival of the highest temperature in summer. From a health point of view, wheat is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and enters the heart, spleen and kidney meridians, plus the nutrients in wheat are high. Eating hot noodles in hot summer can dispel the moisture and summer heat in the human body when eating and sweating. In addition, symptoms such as stuffy nose, aversion to cold, headache and heavy body often appear after catching cold in summer. Cooking a bowl of hot noodles, adding some scallion and pepper, and tasting it while it is hot, has certain auxiliary therapeutic effect.