Beginning of spring, commonly known as "playing spring", is used to eating radish, ginger, onion and bread on this day, which is called "biting spring"; Beginning of spring also has its own food, mainly spring cakes, radishes and spiced dishes. Spring rolls are very popular in the south.

Rain is an old custom in the north. On this day, ordinary people want to eat noodles, spring cakes, popcorn and so on. Different regions have different foods, but most of them are related to dragons. Generally, the name of food is added with the title of "dragon". For example, eating jiaozi is called eating "dragon ears"; Eating noodles is called eating "dragon beard meat"; Eating rice is called eating "dragon son"; Eating wonton is called eating "longan"

"Going back to my mother's house on a rainy day" is a popular holiday custom in western Sichuan. At this time, the married daughter will go home to visit her parents. A typical gift is called "canned meat", which is to stew pig's trotters, snowflake beans and kelp in a casserole, then seal the jar with red paper and red rope and give it to her parents to express their gratitude and respect for their parenting.

In ancient times, people would hold incense and wormwood, smoke the four corners of their homes and drive them away with fragrance.

The solar terms are warm and cold, and the climate is dry. Because pears quench thirst, people have the custom of eating pears. In some areas of Shandong, people bake pancakes in the yard on panic day; In Shaanxi, some areas have to eat fried beans after being electrocuted; In Yanbei, Shanxi, farmers want to eat pears on the day of fright, which means to leave pests behind.

At the vernal equinox, the old society had the custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". Spring vegetable is a kind of wild amaranth, also known as Artemisia annua. In Jiangnan, the custom of watching cattle and offering sacrifices to birds is very popular.

According to the custom of old Beijing, in order to ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings, the spring equinox will eat snowballing usury. The origin of snowballing usury is unusual, and its processing materials include rhubarb rice noodles, soybeans, red bean paste, sugar, sesame oil, osmanthus fragrans, green shredded pork and melon seeds, which are enough to meet the requirements of diversification of food materials in the Nutritional Dietary Guide. Its production is divided into three processes: blank making, filling and molding. "Snowball Donkey" is wrapped in bean flour, golden in color, sweet with bean flavor, soft and unique, and it is a delicious food suitable for all ages.

During the Qingming Festival, Jiangnan has the custom of eating green zongzi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "wheat straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi; There is a custom of eating prickly heat (called cooler in ancient times) all over the north and south.

Because of the combination of Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, some places still keep the habit of eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cakes; Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cool sorghum rice.

Grain Rain, for fishermen, Grain Rain Festival is a folk custom of offering sacrifices to the sea. According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. So no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink.

There is a custom of eating Toona sinensis in Grain Rain solar terms in the north. Before and after Grain Rain, Toona sinensis sprouted. At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis is as tender as silk before the rain. The edible history of Toona sinensis has been more than 1000 years, and it has spread all over the country in the Han Dynasty, from dignitaries to ordinary people.

In the old countryside in the long summer, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice to cook "five-color rice", and then glutinous rice was cooked with Japanese bean meat. The dishes were composed of amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "long summer rice".

Boiled eggs with black tea or walnut shells are called "long summer eggs" and fed to each other. Weave the egg cover with colored thread and hang it on the child's chest or curtain. Children usually play the game of eating eggs and beating eggs, relying on long summer eggs to play, and beating the eggshell firmly but not broken wins. As the saying goes, "children don't suffer from summer if they have an egg hanging on their chest in summer." Now there are five-color silk ropes for children, which are called "long summer ropes".

Xiaoman, Zhou Shu: A Bitter Vegetable Show on Xiaoman Festival. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Long-term use, peace of mind and qi, intelligence and fitness, anti-aging. In medicine, sowthistle is often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up.

People in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them and eat them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases their appetite. Pickling bitter vegetables in yellow rice soup is also useful. It tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter vegetables with boiling water, and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.

Awning seeds mean the maturity of awned crops, such as wheat. The custom of offering sacrifices to the god of flowers on the day of planting awns. There is a custom of boiling plum with ebony, which has existed since the Xia Dynasty. Plums can be cooked in many ways. Simple is to cook plum juice with sugar or mix it with dried plums, or cook plum juice with salt or mix it with dried plums. More elegant is to add perilla.

Mume produced in northern China is very famous. When it is cooked with licorice, hawthorn and rock sugar, it is made into a good summer product-sour plum soup.

Summer solstice, "winter solstice, jiaozi summer solstice", delicious Beijingers pay attention to eating noodles on this day, and the summer solstice has the longest sunshine, so there is a slang in Shaoxing, China called "Have fun, have fun with the summer solstice". In the old society, people, rich or poor, sacrificed their ancestors in summer, commonly known as "making the summer solstice"

In addition to the regular offerings, a plate of silk cakes was added. At that time, after the summer harvest, the new wheat went on the market. Because of the new custom of eating noodles every day, the proverb "wonton on winter solstice and noodles on summer solstice" was put forward. There is also cooking wheat paste, which means mixing wheat flour and baking it into pancakes, which also means tasting new things.

There used to be a custom of "eating new things" in summer, that is, after summer, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, and prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new things" means "eating new things", which is the first new day after the summer festival. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice for cooking in old rice, plus newly listed vegetables. Therefore, there is a folk saying that millet is eaten in summer and grain is eaten in summer.

In summer, China people have the custom of drinking tea, drying ginger, burning incense and drinking mutton soup.

"Twenty-four solar terms" said: "Summer is in the middle of June. Summer, summer, size, small at the beginning of the month, big in the month, and still hot today. " Its climatic characteristics are: "Dou refers to C as a great summer heat, and the weather in Sri Lanka is much stronger than a small summer heat, so it is called a great summer heat.

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of eating fairy grass in summer. Cao Xian, also known as Xiancao and Cao Xian, is an important medicinal and edible plant resource, and is known as Cao Xian because of its magical summer-heat relieving effect. After drying its stems and leaves, it can be made into fairy grass, which is called bean jelly in Guangdong and is a kind of dessert to cool off the heat. In northern China, the custom of eating noodles, jiaozi, eggs, etc. It is very popular in summer.

In early autumn, there is a folk custom of divining whether the weather is cold or hot. There is a folk saying: eggplant grows in summer, and beginning of autumn eats eggplant. Early autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Folk custom beginning of autumn put melons, steamed preserved eggplant and delicious glutinous soup in the yard the day before, and beginning of autumn ate them.

After the intense heat, most people lost a little weight. With the autumn wind, my appetite is wide open, and I want to eat something good and supplement some nutrition to make up for the loss in summer. Northerners call it "sticking autumn fertilizer".

The custom of decocting medicinal tea in summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. In summer, every household has the habit of frying herbal tea. First go to the pharmacy to make a prescription, and then cook tea at home, which means eating something "bitter" in autumn. In addition, another food that old Fuzhou eats in summer is white meatballs; The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in summer.

Ducks, especially the duck in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake in Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cold, fat and thin. If there is no time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; People who are free will stew "radish old duck pot" at home or make "braised duck pieces" for their neighbors. This is what the saying goes, send ducks in summer to save everyone.

Bailu, a native of southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, has the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine. In the old society, Bailu went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang rural areas every year, and every family made wine to entertain guests. People often brought Bailu rice wine into the city.

Hunan Bailu has the custom of drinking rice wine. Every year in Bailuyuan Festival, every household treats guests with Bailuyuan rice wine, which is called "local wine", sweet and moist, and is most suitable for autumn. Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

Fuzhou people have a long-standing custom of eating longan on the day of Millennium, and they think longan is very complementary; Old Suzhou will eat some pomegranates, ginkgo, pears and so on. Nourishing yin and moistening lung; I will eat some eels, too. Eels at this time are the most plump and the best time to taste. Therefore, Suzhou has the saying "white dew eel, first frost crab"; People believe that eating sweet potatoes in Bailuyuan can prevent stomach acid after eating sweet potatoes and shredded sweet potatoes all the year round, so farmers used to eat sweet potatoes in Bailuyuan in the past.

The autumnal equinox is in Lingnan area. On the autumn equinox, the whole village used to pick autumn vegetables, a kind of wild amaranth. Picked autumn dishes are generally made of fish fillets, which are called "autumn soup". In Nanjing, it is popular to eat "osmanthus duck", use ordinary salted duck and season with osmanthus brine.

Cold dew is near the Double Ninth Festival, and chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In order to get rid of autumn dryness, some areas are used to drinking "chrysanthemum wine". Another big custom of cold dew is eating crabs. Ancient poetry day: "September ball navel October tip, holding claws to drink chrysanthemum day."

There is also a folk proverb of "nine women and ten men". Crab meat is tender and delicious, and it is a fine and precious aquatic product. "beginning of autumn walnut white dew pear, cold dew persimmon red skin." Soft glutinous persimmon will not mature until autumn, so cold dew folks also have the habit of eating persimmon.

On the day of the first frost, many areas in China have the custom of eating persimmons. In the eyes of local people, it can not only keep out the cold and keep warm, but also nourish the bones and muscles, so it is a very good first frost food. There are many customs of the first frost, and Yunnan, Guangxi and other places also celebrate the first frost festival. Zhuang people pay attention to eating glutinous rice balls, killing ducks, worshipping ancestors, playing music and celebrating the harvest.

Chrysanthemums are in full bloom at the first frost. At this time, people will hold chrysanthemum parties to express their love and reverence for chrysanthemums.

Beginning of winter, commonly known as "Jiaodong" in central Fujian, means that at the turn of autumn and winter, beginning of winter "makes up for winter". In Chaoshan area of Fujian, beginning of winter wants to eat sugar cane and fried fragrant rice. In Shantou, people eat fragrant rice made of lotus seeds, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots in early winter. These are warm foods. In the north, it is the custom to eat jiaozi in winter, because jiaozi looks like ears. People think that if you eat them, your ears won't catch a cold in winter.

Xiaoxue, there is a folk custom of "pickling in winter and storing it for winter". After a light snow, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which was a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon and enjoy food during the Spring Festival. In northern China, people usually eat instant-boiled mutton in the light snow season. Some places in the south also have the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar.

Heavy snow, there is a saying that "light snow pickles, heavy snow pickles". In the old days, every household in Nanjing began to prepare bacon, which was called "salted goods", during the solar term of heavy snow.

Stir-fried anise, cinnamon, pepper, sugar, etc. Use big salt. After the fried salt and pepper are completely cooled, apply them to fish, meat and poultry and knead them repeatedly until the color of the meat turns from fresh to dark and the surface oozes liquid. Then put the meat with the remaining salt into the jar, press it with stones, put it in a cool and backlit place, take it out after half a month, and add water to boil the marinade.

Skim off the floating foam, put the dried poultry meat into the jar layer by layer, pour the brine, press the big stone, take it out ten days later, and hang it under the Chaoyang eaves to dry (Qiu Bingjun: China people have 24 solar terms).

As for the northern nationalities, it's quite cold at this time. For example, there is a saying in Baotou that "light snow kills pigs and heavy snow kills sheep". When the snow season comes, it is time to kill pigs and prepare for the new year's goods. At this time, no matter who slaughters livestock, relatives and friends will come to help, and the host will prepare dining tables and side dishes. Therefore, the light snow season is a time for family and friends to catch up and contact their feelings.

The solstice in winter is considered a grand festival. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate it. The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton from winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles from winter solstice on this day.

In Suzhou in winter, Wu was left over from the legislation of the Zhou Dynasty, and the winter night is the end of the year, so the winter is the New Year. Suzhou people have many eating customs during the winter solstice. They want to have a "reunion dinner". The names of the meals are very elegant, including egg dumplings called "Yuanbao", bean sprouts called "Ruyi Cuisine", vermicelli called "Golden Chain" and fish called "Eat Full".

Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice, also known as the "winter solstice group", is particularly popular in the south of the Yangtze River. According to historical records, this custom has existed since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the old society, Shanghainese paid the most attention to eating glutinous rice balls, which meant "perfection" and "reunion", symbolizing family harmony and auspiciousness.

Slight cold, every time there is a slight cold solar term, there is an important folk custom in the "slight cold" solar term of diet, that is, eating "Laba porridge". The Chronicle of Yanjing records: "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea and peeled jujube paste. And dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and grapes for external use. Laba porridge is also eaten on Laba Festival after slight cold, and then the annual flavor becomes stronger and stronger.

There are many custom diets in the cold solar terms, such as glutinous rice, laba porridge, rice, soybean sprouts and so on. According to "Miscellanies of Jinmen", there was a custom of eating soybean sprouts in Tianjin in the old days. Soybean sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, made of Chinese cabbage buds. From winter to the future, cut off the stems and leaves of the cabbage, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about two inches from the ground, covered with fertilizer and not ventilated. After half a month, it was crisp and tender.

People with severe cold have different dietary customs, such as "cold-dispelling cake" in old Beijing, glutinous rice in Guangdong, chicken soup in Nanjing and fried spring rolls in Anhui. In the cold season, people are busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, pickling new year's dishes and preparing new year's goods, because the Spring Festival, the most important festival for China people, is coming. During this period, northerners also have a very important day-Laba, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

On this day, people cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with whole grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates and lotus seeds, which is an indispensable staple food for Chinese New Year.