Tomorrow is the summer solstice, also known as " summer festival", "summer solstice festival ". The northern wheat has just been harvested, the south of the early rice is spiking flowers, in ancient times, to the summer solstice this day, people will in the celebration of the harvest at the same time, but also sacrificed to the ancestors, both thanks to the heavenly gift of a good harvest, but also prayed for access to the "autumn report", the disaster abatement of the year .
Previously, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, as is an important folk festival in China, before the Qing Dynasty, the summer solstice day national vacation, people and their relatives in the home reunion, to avoid the summer heat, also known as the " rest of the summer ", in the Song Dynasty, "Wenchang Miscellany," recorded that: "The day of the summer solstice began, the hundred officials take a three-day vacation." Since it is a holiday, must be inseparable from the food companion, so in the summer solstice this day, in the traditional customs, people pay attention to eat which food it?
As the saying goes, " Winter Solstice Dumplings Summer Solstice Noodles", the summer solstice to eat noodles, generally refers to the noodles, that is, with the noodles (strips) of the long symbolizes the summer solstice of the long day . In the north, with just harvested wheat milled flour to taste is the most seasonal, and fresh flour in the nutrient content is also higher; in addition, after the summer solstice, the weather is even hotter, the table will be common cold dishes, cold noodles, eat up cool and relieve the summer heat. Summer solstice day, Beijing street noodle shop business is the most prosperous, whether it is "cold noodles", "brine noodles", or "fried noodles, oil splash noodles, green onion oil mixed noodles, dan dan noodles, beef noodles" and so on are very popular. The company's products and services have been well received by the public.
Not only in the north, the south also has a " winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles " saying, in the south of the Yangtze River belt " eaten the summer solstice noodles, a day shorter line " custom has also been a long time. "The custom has also been a long time, and there are more types of noodles in the south: such as shredded meat noodles, Yangchun noodles, three fresh noodles, slice of Chuan, over the bridge noodles and so on.
Mention of mutton, many people will think that the winter tonic indispensable food, summer how to eat mutton? In fact, after the summer solstice, soon to enter the day, in order to better drive away the body's moisture, replenishment of people due to anorexia, metabolism and other loss of nutrients, it is necessary to eat some mutton. Therefore, there is a folk saying " summer bowl of mutton soup, without a doctor to prescribe medicine ", " summer to eat sheep, health and aphrodisiac " said.
In Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province and other places, people in the summer solstice as well as the voltaic day to go to the hotel, lamb museum, barbecue stalls, sweating to eat mutton, drink mutton soup, all the body comfortable, can be described as a "voltaic" with the enjoyment of the same, there is heat when ......
Proverb said summer solstice wontons winter solstice group, four seasons of well-being reunion ." In Jiangsu Wuxi and Yixing and other places, the summer solstice day to eat wontons, the old people say: summer solstice day to eat a bowl of wontons, this summer is not easy to heatstroke; in addition, eating wontons also has a "chaos and harmony" meaning. As a result of the family to eat wontons, soup is generally accompanied by seaweed, shrimp and other ingredients rich in protein, calcium, iodine, ate not only to supplement the summer high temperature and sweat and let the body loss of minerals, vitamins, and the elderly and small children often eat some seaweed, shrimp, for the enhancement of the body is also very good.
In Taizhou, Zhejiang and other places, there are also " summer solstice not eat soup, walking flat tower "said, where the soup is not soup, but flat food, similar to the wontons, shaped like dumplings, fillings are usually shrimp, peanuts, wild rice, salted vegetables, and tofu as the main ingredient.
In the past, the old grain at home to eat up, and the new wheat ripe before and after the harvest, that is, when the new grain is not played, people will pick some undercooked wheat, boiled green wheat kernels poured into the stone grinder, grinded like noodles, "grinding turn", and then seasonal vegetables, supplemented with garlic, sesame oil, chili peppers, salt and other seasoning, cold and eat, or with a number of seasoning!
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In addition to wheat, in the Northwest, people will not be fully ripe wheat and barley picked, stewed in the pot, rubbed off the shell, chewed and eat, eat and glutinous and tough, very fresh.
In addition to the above traditional cuisine, after the summer solstice, the weather will be more and more sultry, so try to eat a light diet, eat less greasy and spicy food, quench your thirst to dispel the summer heat can drink some green bean soup, sour plum juice, silver ear soup, or fresh vegetable juice, fruit juice, less to drink drinks containing more sugar and electrolytes such as cola, soda, and cold drinks too cold.
Time is running out, and we're nearly halfway through the year; the summer months are a time when the crops in the fields and the students who are waiting for the exams are growing up, and it's time for them to grow and develop, and the hard work and effort they put into it is a sword to be used for the fall harvest soon after. Don't forget to eat at the right time and get the right nutrients to make your body better, safe and healthy on the summer solstice.