The 2019 summer is May 6, this day all over the country have different food customs, these 12 kinds of flavor food customs for reference:

1, summer rice

Every summer the day before, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, said "Tou summer summer rice". Folk believe that children eat summer rice, can prevent heat stroke. Practice is to use red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice cooked into "five-color rice". Traditional customs believe that the summer to eat five-color rice, there is a year to the end of the symbol of good health.

2, the summer egg

"Eat eggs in the summer" custom has a long history. As the saying goes: "Eat the egg in the summer, hot days are not resistance to summer." Legend has it that from the day of summer, the weather is warm and sunny and gradually hot, many people, especially children, will have the feeling of physical fatigue and weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite and gradually lose weight, called "Resistance and Propulsion". Mother Nuwa told the people, every year on the day of summer, children's chest hung on the boiled eggs of chickens, ducks and geese, can be avoided Resistance to summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs at the summer festival has continued until now.

3, Lixia jelly

From Yunnan to the vast southern region of Jiangnan (Jiangshan, Qingyuan, etc.) have Lixia eat Lixia jelly custom. The production of summer soup varies from place to place, but most of them are inseparable from the rice flour and seasonal vegetables, etc., and the basic form to the paste-based.

4, black rice cake

Black rice cake is one of Ningbo's traditional Lixia snacks, is the Ushu leaves pounded soaking water, Ushu leaf juice soak glutinous rice so that it stained black, and then soak the black glutinous rice with sugar steamed and hand-pressed into glutinous rice cake, eat a light Ushu leaf flavor.

5, light cake

Fujian Min Dong area in the summer to eat "light cake" (flour baked with a little salt) based. Eastern Fujian Zhouning, Fu'an and other places will be light cake into the water soaked dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places will be light cake cut in half, will be fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, bad vegetables, etc. and eat.

6, shrimp noodles

Shrimp noodles, also known as shrimp noodles, is the day of summer, Xiamen, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong and other regions of the traditional specialties of the noodle. The main ingredients are shrimp, green vegetables, pork, oil noodles, etc., and its taste is delicious.

7, summer dumplings

Hunan Loudi people have the custom of eating summer dumplings, the first glutinous rice flour kneaded into a ball, rolled into the size of a dumpling, and then under the pot to cook, put sugar. The summer dumplings are oily and fragrant, filled with brown sugar, sweet and unctuous.

9, seven congee

Seven congee is a collection of neighboring houses of each family's rice, coupled with a variety of beans and brown sugar, cooked into a large pot of congee, by everyone to share food.

10, seven tea

In the Zhejiang region, in the summer there is a custom to drink seven tea, each family brought their own new roasted tea, mixed with cooking or brewed into a pot of tea, and then by everyone gathered **** drink.

11, bamboo shoots

Folk customs believe that the summer eat bamboo shoots foot bone hard, good climbing. Also eat green plums, burn green tea, to prevent "summer moth".

12, wheatworms

will be cooked and not yellow wheat ears picked and rubbed, with the shell of the wheat grain iron pot fried, and then rubbed shells, put into the stone mill grinding, grinding out six or seven minutes long wheat noodles like a strip of baby silkworms, so it is called wheatworms.