After the summer, it means that the agricultural work will start, so the old generation will advocate in the summer of this day to nourish the body, in order to be able to have more physical strength to do agricultural work. Ningbo people will use red beans, black beans, green beans, green beans, soybean 5 kinds of beans and white round-grained rice mixed with a pot of rich flavor "five-color rice", also known as "summer rice". Later, as the practice evolved, the ingredients of the rice changed, and ingredients such as bamboo shoots and salted meat were incorporated into it. In any case, the summer rice is nutritious, and has a "grain harvest" of good meaning,
Each festival has a different traditional festival food, the summer is no exception. Summer festival to eat "summer eggs", is a traditional custom in the south of the Yangtze River. Local people will eat boiled eggs or salted duck eggs on this day, which means that eating summer eggs can strengthen the body. There is a folk saying "Eat the egg in the summer, hot days are not resistance to summer." Said the summer season to eat "summer eggs" can avoid the summer heat and stable through the hot summer. Ancient people believe that the round and slippery symbolizes the perfect, have eaten the summer egg family can be safe in the summer of the good significance.
Lixia as a symbol of the beginning of summer, Jiangxi Yiyang area has a traditional custom of eating "Lixia fruit", and still retains this custom. Lixia fruit, also known as Lixia kuey teow, rice boiled and mashed and rolled into small balls, with bean sprouts, dried beans, shrimp, peas and other ingredients in the pot to cook into the "Lixia fruit", in Fujian Minbei "Lixia fruit" is called "round soup In Fujian Minbei, "Lixia fruit" is called "round soup". Older generations have been rumored to eat the end of the summer fruit on behalf of the "send spring to welcome the summer", the richer the ingredients in the summer fruit, the richer the harvest of crops, but also called a symbol of the best traditional food.
The traditional food of the summer is to drink a cup of "Lixia tea". As the so-called "rain is rarely picked, the summer picking endless", the summer, the tea tree's fastest growing spring, if not picked in time, the tea will be old. Jiangxi area has a "not drink the summer tea, will be a summer of suffering" custom. On the day of the summer, the women went to the tea mountain tea picking, gathered seven tea **** with a pot of tea, also known as the "seven tea", meaning that drink the summer tea, energetic body good, the whole summer is not sleepy good significance.
Since there is a "summer fruit", then naturally there is a "summer porridge". Hunan Leiyang people in the day of the summer festival, every family will boil a pot of summer porridge. With lean meat, vermicelli, glutinous rice balls, jujubes, pork, dried bamboo shoots, jujubes, peas, bean sprouts and more than ten kinds of ingredients plus rice boiled out of a pot of rich flavor and nutrient-rich summer porridge. Neighbors give each other a gift to taste, to show their craftsmanship at the same time can also promote the emotion between neighbors. Eating Lixia porridge at the beginning of the summer represents the local traditional custom and good wishes for a good harvest.
The summer, don't forget to eat 5 kinds of "summer food", nutritional enough good meaning, stable over the summer! In any case, the summer to eat "summer food" on behalf of the old generation of people on the life of the good significance. Different regions have different traditional summer customs, what are the traditional summer foods in your region? Welcome to share with me.