The dishes eaten in the summer:

The first: peas

Peas I refer to mainly eat peas with grains, rather than the kind of pods eat Dutch beans. Peas are ripe at this time in the crop fields, this time of year, the peas, relatively fresh and tender, and peas shaped like eyes, eat peas on this day, is to pray for a year of eyes as fresh peas as clear, disease-free. It is typically eaten with boiled peas and rice, or peas and rice with minced meat.

The second: eggs

Regardless of the north and south, the day of the summer is to eat eggs, also known as the summer eggs. Folk since ancient times have "eat an egg in the summer, hot days do not Gui summer", you can eat fresh eggs, you can eat tea eggs or you duck eggs, goose eggs, our local popularity to eat eggs and salted duck eggs, are directly in the water to cook, fished out of the shell can be eaten.

Third: fava beans

Fava beans are the most representative of the summer this season vegetables, the elderly often say: "before the summer, three days to eat, after the summer, three days to eat". The meaning is that only after the summer, broad beans are really fully cooked, this time the shell of the broad beans is relatively hard, although we like to eat this way, but I personally prefer to eat before the summer, this time is more tender do not have to go to the broad bean pods.

Fourth: milk

The hot summer is coming, the body's nutrients are easy to lose, this time you need to supplement some calcium and protein, milk is the main source of these two substances, drink a little milk, not only to enhance the resistance, but also able to alleviate fatigue, replenishment of physical strength, the day of the summer to drink some nutritious milk.

Fifth: bamboo shoots

Since the May 1 home, pulling bamboo shoots of the people have been endless, the day of summer to eat bamboo shoots is also a traditional local food customs, fresh wild shoots are more tender, it rises up from the ground, angry and exuberant, symbolizing that the human feet are also like bamboo shoots as strong and robust. There are also places that eat bamboo shoots to symbolize the festival, and the bamboo shoots at this time of year are usually wild mountain bamboo shoots.

Sixth: green beans

These days in the south of the temperature is ridiculously high, a series of more than 30 degrees of heat, the arrival of the day of summer is also a sign of the advent of the summer heat, eat some mung bean porridge, or simmering a little mung bean soup to drink, can play a role in clearing away the heat and summer heat, and the mung beans contain a lot of nutrients, eat not only to drive away the heat, but also clear the heart.