long summer rice

People in Hangzhou have the custom of long summer eating wild summer rice. Children and teenagers are in droves, begging for rice and meat from neighbors. Let the broad beans and bamboo shoots on the ground be mined, and then go to the wild to set up a pot stove with stones and burn it for free, which is called "Wild Summer Rice" or "long summer Rice". This custom is to compare ourselves with beggars, thinking that we can avoid disasters. In the old days, in the countryside, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice to cook "five-color rice", which later evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese bean meat, and the dishes included amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "long summer rice".

black rice

Hangzhou has the custom of eating black rice and bird rice cakes in summer. It is said that when long summer eats black rice, it won't bring summer, but it can dispel wind and poison, and black mosquitoes dare not bite.

long summer Cake

It is said that eating long summer Cake will help you to keep from getting wet and thin in summer. At the beginning, long summer cake was made of malt. At that time, materials were scarce, so adults and children loved it very much. Now the long summer cake is actually the kind of pastry, which is slightly smaller than the ordinary Su-style moon cakes, with stuffing, usually red bean paste or 1 fruits, and the taste is crisp and fragrant, and four or five cakes are wrapped into a tube. In long summer season, the traditional food is presented to relatives and friends to express the wish of blessing, and the ceremony is light and the affection is heavy. Therefore, long summer cake has been deeply loved by urban and rural residents.

peas

peas with shells are shaped like eyes. Eye diseases were common in ancient times. In order to eliminate eye diseases, long summer prayed that his eyes would be as clear as fresh peas for one year by eating peas.

Traditional food in long summer, Suzhou

There is a proverb in Suzhou that "long summer sees three new things". "Sanxin" refers to newly ripe cherries, plums and wheat. People worship their ancestors with the "three innovations" first, and then the living taste the food. Su-su long summer also wants to eat sea silk, gluten, white bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse, salted duck eggs and green broad beans. On this day, long summer, a hotel, presented fermented grains and shochu to its regular customers, without taking any money, and called long summer "Festival of Feeds".

Three shrimps in the breeze

Old Suzhou and people who know how to eat know that the so-called three shrimps in the breeze are shrimp brains, shrimp seeds and shrimps with lotus leaves under them. In traditional Suzhou, the first course of serving food must be shrimp, and when to eat what food is the most important place for Suzhou people. Now, the lake shrimp has seeds, and the shrimp brain in summer has something like pomegranate color, which chefs call shrimp brain. Together with the lotus leaf in summer, three things make up a famous Suzhou dish: three shrimps in the breeze.

Three-shrimp noodles

Three-shrimp noodles are the best things in shrimp, shrimp brain and shrimp meat, which are cooked and made into toppings. The production process is very complicated, and the taste is really fresh. Among the Su-style noodle soup, the three-shrimp noodle is a relatively tall way to eat. It is listed every summer, and it is only available in a limited number of noodle restaurants (such as Yuxingji), and it is expensive.

Watermelon chicken has been popular in Suzhou for 4 or 5 years. Because it can only be eaten in summer, and it must be eaten on the same day as cooking, it can't be stored and can't be carried, so not many people really know it. Watermelon and hen are steamed, and the fragrance of melon permeates the chicken, and the chicken can keep its original freshness. The elegant shops will carve pictures on the watermelon skin, which is very delicious and ornamental.

traditional food in long summer, Zhenjiang

in Zhenjiang, there is a eating style of "long summer tastes eight new things". This "eight new" is cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, tender broad beans, radish, shad and grouper (yellow croaker). Among them, shad is the most precious. The head tide shad is a tribute sent to the imperial court, and the second tide shad was taken away by the rich family to satisfy their cravings. It is the shad after the third tide for ordinary people to eat shad early.

Wuxi long summer traditional food

Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad beans, amaranth and cucumber, the three fresh plants are cherries, loquat and apricots (some are plums, apricots and cherries, others are plums, cherries and toon heads) and the three fresh plants are sea cucumbers, puffer fish and shad (some are shad, shad and yellow croaker).

among them, the taste of radix rehmanniae is the most common. In some places, there is also the custom of eating moldy tofu in long summer, saying that eating moldy tofu will not bring bad luck.

Traditional food in long summer, Changshu

long summer, a native of Changshu, tastes new and has rich food, and has the saying that "nine meats and thirteen vegetables". "Nine meats" refer to shad, bonito, salted fish, salted eggs, sea cucumber, elk duck, salted fresh, marinated shrimp, cherry meat and pomfret bream. "Thirteen elements" refer to cherries, plums, wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), such as bamboo shoots, broad beans, Mao Zhen, peas, cucumbers, chicory bamboo shoots, grass heads, radishes, roses and pine flowers.