What food do you eat during the summer solstice?
1, hot surface
Eating hot noodles in hot summer is called "picking pots", which is said to mean "eliminating disasters". Eating hot noodles is to drive away evil spirits, and sweating more to drive away moisture and summer heat in the human body.
2. Summer solstice soup
People in Changsha, Hunan, eat dumplings made of glutinous rice flour and mouse grass on the summer solstice, which is called "summer solstice soup". As the saying goes, "after eating the summer solstice soup, the muddy stone steps become pits." "Eat a ball and cross the river with one foot on the summer solstice" means that you are extremely powerful and as light as a swallow.
3. Summer solstice cake
After the summer harvest, new wheat comes on the market, so it is a custom to eat noodles and try new wheat every day. Some people mix them with wheat flour and spread them into pancakes for baking cooked food. With vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon, it is usually called "summer solstice cake" after ancestor worship.
4. Litchi
Cantonese in Guangzhou and Qinzhou and Yulin in Guangxi both like to eat dog meat and lychee on the solstice in summer. Are they not spicy together? Eating a lot of litchi is easy to cause hypoglycemia, that is, "litchi disease", so it must be moderate. Drinking a little salt water or mung bean water, wax gourd water and rehmannia soup before and after eating litchi can relieve summer heat.
5. Zongzi
Many areas have the habit of eating zongzi from summer to the future, which does not mean that they only eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. The glutinous rice and red dates used for zongzi are actually relatively positive energy foods. Eating zongzi on the solstice in summer is really good for the human body.
6, new wheat
In some places in Shandong, it is a custom to cook new wheat grains on the solstice in summer. It is both a taste and a game for children to fish for new wheat grains in soup with a small hedge made of new wheat straw.
7. Lettuce and cold noodles
There used to be a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles". According to the custom of old Beijing, lettuce and cold noodles can be eaten as early as the solstice of summer every year. Eating these raw and cold foods can effectively help reduce fire and stimulate appetite, but it will not damage your health because it is too cold. Therefore, whenever summer solstice comes, cold noodles and other foods begin to be sold.
8. Dog meat
Eating dog meat from summer solstice is mainly popular in Guangdong, China. There is a saying in Guangdong that "dogs have no way to go in summer", which is the custom of eating dog meat in summer. It is worth noting that dog meat is hot, and eating dog meat in summer solstice should be enough. Don't eat too much, so as not to cause discomfort such as getting angry.
9. Amaranth and gourd
In some areas, during the summer solstice, underage nieces and nephews will go to their mothers' homes for dinner, and uncles' homes will prepare amaranth and gourd for cooking, which means that eating amaranth will not cause diseases, and eating gourd legs will give them strength.
10, summer solstice eggs
Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi in southern Hunan eat eggs from summer solstice. On the summer solstice, the whole egg is cooked, peeled and cooked with red dates, which is called "eating summer solstice eggs". In southern Hunan, it is mainly Jiahe, Lanshan and Guiyang who get up in the morning of the summer solstice, cook the whole egg, dye the skin of the egg with red paper or red dye, put it in a small net bag and tie it on the chest of children until noon or afternoon, then peel off the eggshell and eat the egg. People think that eating eggs in summer solstice can strengthen the body, strengthen the stomach and keep pace. As the saying goes, "Eat eggs in summer solstice, and the slate is trampled."
Folk activities of summer solstice solar terms
1, offering sacrifices to Shenxia on the solstice.
As mentioned in the preface, the solstice festival in ancient summer was as grand as the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom has existed since the Zhou Dynasty. The imperial court not only held a grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods, but also prayed for the peace of the country and the people. Farmers everywhere are busy offering sacrifices to the gods and praying for good weather. Northerners pray for rain in case of drought; Southerners seek more sunshine to prevent floods. In the Song Dynasty, from the summer of solstice, North Korean officials had to have a three-day holiday. Today, many areas still retain the custom of offering sacrifices to the sky from the summer solstice.
2. Eat noodles on the solstice in summer.
As the saying goes: "Solstice noodles in jiaozi in winter and summer", the bowl of "Solstice noodles in summer" is the most indispensable one. Summer solstice noodles are a custom of Han nationality, which is very popular in most parts of the country. Pan Qingrong won Ji Sheng at the age of Emperor Jing: "It is the day when furniture eats cold noodles, that is, it is also called water surface." There is a folk proverb that "eating noodles on the solstice in summer will shorten the day". Although summer solstice is not the hottest time in summer, it means that hot summer has arrived. People began to change their diet from the solstice of summer, 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 is also called "subduction surface".
3. Give each other folding fan powder
In the ancient imperial court, from summer to the future, the royal family took out ice cubes to "keep them in winter and use them in summer" in order to "avoid summer and cold", which was used throughout the dynasties from the Zhou Dynasty and became a system. In the ancient Liao country, on the solstice of summer, women gave each other folding fans and powdered fat capsules to get rid of sweat. "Fuyang miscellaneous?" Li Yi: "On the solstice of summer, when you enter the bag of Fan and powder, you have to resign. "Wind powder grease produced by fan" is suitable for dispelling turbid gas caused by body heat and preventing miliaria.
Climatic characteristics of summer solstice solar terms
1, convective weather
After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it "dividing fields in summer and rain". Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, skillfully used this weather to write a famous poem, "The east rises and the west falls, and the road is sunny and sunny." The heavy precipitation brought by convective weather is not always as beautiful as described in the poem, and it often brings local disasters. In his poem "Summer Rain", the poet Xu Shuxin also appropriately described the thunderstorm weather in summer: "In midsummer, wind-hot frogs sing cicadas and strike dust. The golden gongs are ringing in the air, and the cold rain is like money. "
2. Rainstorm weather
In most cases, during the "summer solstice" period, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Jianghuai basin are rainy and frequently rainstorm, which is easy to cause floods and even threaten people's lives and property. Attention should be paid to strengthening flood control work.
3, Jianghuai Meiyu
The solstice season in summer is the rainy season in Jianghuai area. This is the yellow ripening period of plums in Jiangnan. The air is very humid. Cold and warm air masses meet here, forming a trough of low pressure, which leads to continuous rain.
4. Hot weather
Like the winter solstice, the summer solstice is also a solar term reflecting the changes of the four seasons. Astronomy stipulates that the summer solstice is the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere. From summer to the future, although the direct point of the sun began to move south from the Tropic of Cancer, the days in the northern hemisphere began to shorten gradually. For the Tropic of Cancer and its northern area, the height of the sun began to decrease day by day at noon, but the heat radiated by the sun to the ground was still more than the heat radiated from the ground to the air, so the temperature will continue to rise in the future, so there is a saying that the summer solstice is not too hot.