What traditional food does northern long summer eat?
1, summer cake
Summer cakes, also known as hemp cakes, have different shapes, such as riding a horse by the champion, sending a son by Guanyin, holding a peach by a monkey, etc., and summer cakes are often used for mothers to give to their married daughters. Eating summer cakes in long summer is said to be neither sick nor thin.
2. Spring rolls
Spring rolls are divided into two parts: cakes and vegetables. The cakes for rolling vegetables must be freshly made pancakes with hot noodles, which are round, thin and smooth. The rolled cake must be lightly coated with a layer of oil, in order to prevent the cake from sticking to the cake, and at the same time, it tastes smoother. With the crunchy vegetables rolled in it, it is soft and hard, and the taste is first-class.
3. Noodles
In long summer season, old Beijing pays attention to eating noodles to celebrate the wheat harvest. There is a good saying: summer is a new day. It means that eating noodles in long summer can strengthen the body and bring good luck to people.
4, five-color rice
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 was called long summer rice.
5. long summer
Eating "long summer" means to send spring to welcome summer and celebrate the spring harvest. Newly listed vegetables and fruits should be added to "long summer" as much as possible. The more varieties, the more festive it is.
Traditional customs in long summer
1, the game of fighting eggs
"long summer eggs are thrown all over the street", and egg fighting is usually a game for children. To use boiled eggs, usually boiled with white water and shell (the shell can't be damaged), soaked in cold water, and then put in a net bag woven with colored silk thread or wool, so that children can hang around their necks. The rules of fighting eggs are quite simple. To put it bluntly, it is "to see whose eggshell is hard": everyone holds an egg in his hand, with the sharp one as the head and the round one as the tail. The egg head hits the egg head and the egg tail hits the egg tail. One by one, he fights over it, and the one who breaks the shell gives up, then eats the egg, and the last Xiaoqiang who won't break the fight is honored as the "egg king". As for why we have to fight for eggs, the folk saying is: "long summer has an egg hanging on his chest, and it is difficult for a villain to have a summer break.".
2. long summer weighed people
Long summer has the custom of weighing people after lunch. People hang a big wooden scale at the entrance of the village or the entrance of the platform, and a stool is hung on the scale hook. Everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people. While weighing flowers, the weigher spoke auspicious words. Long summer weighing people will bring good fortune to Adou, and people also pray to God to bring them good luck.
3. Try new activities
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, there is a custom of "tasting new things in long summer". There is a saying 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 new" first, and then people taste the food. At the same time, Suzhou 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 of each hotel presented fermented liquor and soju to the old customers who entered the store for nothing, so long summer was also called "Feed Festival".