Summer specialties:

1, summer eggs

Summer day there are also some dietary practices are related to eggs, such as eating summer eggs. As the saying goes, "Eat eggs in the summer, hot days are not resistance to summer." It means eat a few more eggs so that your body will be as strong as an ox. People will be eggs can also be duck eggs cooked with tea to set up summer eggs to eat. And the ancients believed that the egg slipped round, symbolizing a successful life, especially if there are children at home, eat eggs in the summer can pray for summer peace, to get a healthy good luck.

2, Lixia rice

Many places will eat Lixia rice on the day of Lixia, eat a bowl of Lixia rice, summer is really coming. This kind of rice, "Lixia rice" is also called burning summer summer rice or five-color rice, is peas, mushrooms, salted meat, etc. and glutinous rice with the cooking and become, although the ingredients vary from place to place, but are five ingredients and five colors, nutritious, meaning that the five grains are plentiful, all year round are healthy and healthy. Peas are the best kind of beans in this season, both nutritious and delicious, we do not want to miss.

3, Lixia Kuei

Jiangxi Yiyang have Lixia eat "Lixia Kuei" custom. Lixia kuey teow is a kind of kuey teow and dumplings eaten on the Lixia Festival. After the rice is boiled, it is pounded and kneaded into round strips, then rolled into balls and boiled into a soup with pork, soybean sprouts, peas, shrimp and other ingredients. Legend has it that eating Lixia Kuey Teow means sending spring and welcoming summer, and the more varieties there are, the richer and more festive the spring harvest.

4, summer congee

Summer congee is Leiyang, Hunan Province for the day of summer and cook a porridge, nutritional value is super high, it is to glutinous rice balls, peas, lean meat, tofu, vermicelli, bamboo shoots, liver ...... more than a variety of seasonal ingredients as a supplement, adding rice boiled into. On the day of Lixia every family boils this porridge and then exchanges it for a drink, savoring the joy of the festival and promoting neighborliness.

5, taste three fresh

Folk custom has a proverb: "summer taste three fresh." That is, the day of summer to taste more fresh. The so-called seasonal freshness, specific references around different say. Generally divided into the ground three fresh, tree three fresh and water three fresh. Ground produced three fresh respectively is amaranth, broad beans, pea cake; tree head long three fresh is cherry, plum, toon head; three fresh in the water is snail, river shrimp, anchovies. The habit of eating "three fresh" in the summer is to respect the laws of nature's diet.