Lixia, as one of the twenty-four solar terms, is considered to be a more important solar term, which is the alternation of spring and summer, as well as a solar term in which everything grows and is suitable for sowing. Here is my compilation of the health food and climate characteristics of the Lixia festival, I hope it can help you.

Summer season health food

1, Wu rice

Wu rice to take Wu rice leaves (also known as fine green leaves) squeeze juice dip glutinous rice steamed rice. It is said that the summer to eat rice, not Resistance to Resistance to summer, can get rid of the wind and poison, U mosquitoes do not dare to bite.

2, black rice cake

Black rice cake is also one of Ningbo's traditional summer snacks, is the Ushu leaves pounded soaking water, soak glutinous rice with Ushu leaf juice to make it black coloring, and then soak the black glutinous rice with sugar steamed and hand-pressed into glutinous rice cake, eat a light Ushu leaf flavor.

3, Lixia jelly

Lixia day to eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup balls, the name "Lixia jelly". As the saying goes, "Eat a summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer to eat a group (sound tuo), a foot across the river". Before and after the summer often have a gale, the name "Dragon King Storm". Summer day hair east wind, commonly thought to have flooding, the proverb said "summer east wind and rain ripples". Summer day thunder, the future will be more thunderstorms, the proverb said "thunder hit the summer, three days to a".

4, eggs

Eat eggs in the summer, not only can withstand the "Resistance and Resistance" test, but also bring life to a successful. Summer has the custom of eating eggs, can prevent the common summer day lack of appetite, body tiredness, limb weakness, emaciation and other bitter summer symptoms. Eggs, flat, fill the gas deficiency, have the function of tranquility, nourish the heart.

5, summer tea

In order to meet the summer, China's Jiangxi area there is the custom of summer tea, said not to drink tea, will be a summer of suffering, in the summer of the day, the women to gather seven families of tea, *** with the cooking and drinking, said that the summer drinking seven tea, you can ensure that the whole summer will not be sleepy.

6, foot bone bamboo shoots

Summer to eat "foot bone bamboo shoots", is a unique custom in Ningbo. Not all shoots sold in the market now can be used to do "foot bone bamboo shoots", the best is the wild bamboo shoots or bamboo shoots. Eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" focus on the shape, before cooking the bamboo shoots shot flat, cut into a section of about 4 cm, shaped like a foot bone, eat to "foot bone Jian Jian over".

7, seven porridge

East Zhejiang rural summer has eaten "seven porridge" custom, that is, farming family neighbors give each other beans, rice, and to sugar, cooked into a pot of porridge, called "seven porridge", said to eat this porridge, neighbors and harmony, a heart to go to summer cultivation. harmony, a heart to summer plowing and summer planting.

8, summer rice

In the old days, the summer festival, Ningbo countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice boiled into "five-color rice", called the summer rice. Now some families in Ningbo city and countryside still retain this ancient style, but the material of the summer rice changed to another five kinds of food: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, plus soy sauce or salted meat, called five kinds of rice.

9, Jun Tap vegetable

Ningbo people also ate Jun Tap vegetable tradition in the summer, Jun Tap vegetable is a seasonal vegetable marketed around the time of summer, it is said to eat Jun Tap vegetable summer will not give birth to prickly heat, the skin will be like Jun Tap as smooth.

10, wheatworms

Summer Festival, Shanghai suburban farmers take wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strip of food, called wheatworms, people eat, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance". With the summer of green grass and into the rice flour, fried into a cake, called "stall rice", for the people of Shanghai and the Pudong area people like to eat. Also sugar plums, wine, salted eggs, etc. as seasonal food, known as seasonal food, take a taste of mouth, said taste "three new".

11, three fresh

Summer tasting three fresh also known as "summer eating three fresh" or "summer see three new". Sanxian is generally divided into "ground three fresh", "tree three fresh" and "water three fresh". Ground three fresh that is, broad beans, amaranth, cucumber (a said amaranth, broad beans, garlic mustard). Tree three fresh cherries, loquats, apricots (said to be plums, apricots, cherries). Water three fresh namely conch, puffer fish, anchovies (said to be anchovies, pomfret, yellowtail).

After the summer diet principle is "spring and summer Yang", Yang focus on the heart, the heart can drink more milk, eat more soy products, chicken, lean meat, etc., both supplemental nutrients, but also play a strong role in the heart. Usually eat more vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, can increase the supply of fiber, vitamin B, C, can play a role in preventing atherosclerosis.

12, noodle

China's northern wheat planting, summer is the wheat on the field season, so most of the northern regions of the summer when the production and consumption of pasta custom, intended to celebrate the wheat harvest. The pasta of the summer is mainly summer cake, cake and spring rolls three.

Climatic characteristics of the summer season

After the summer, Jiangnan officially entered the rainy season, the amount of rain and rainy days have increased significantly, continuous rain not only leads to crop wet damage, but also cause a variety of disease epidemics. Wheat is most susceptible to infection of the period of mildew, if the future is expected to have warm but rainy weather, to grasp the beginning of the flowering period to the full flowering of spray control. Southern cotton in the rainy or warm weather conditions, often causing anthracnose, blight and other diseases ` outbreaks, resulting in a large area of dead seedlings, seedling shortage. Necessary measures should be taken in a timely manner to increase temperature and reduce humidity, and with the pharmaceutical control, in order to preserve the whole seedling to fight for strong seedlings. "More insertion of rice seedlings in the summer, grain harvest full warehouse", before and after the summer is the early rice transplanting red season in the north and south of the Yangtze River. "Can insert full moon rice seedlings, not gripping full moon grass", this time the temperature is still low, immediately after planting rice seedlings to strengthen the management, early fertilizer, early ploughing, early treatment of pests and diseases, to promote early hair. Middle rice sowing to grasp the end. Tea tree at this time the fastest development of spring, a little negligence, tea to aging, as the so-called "very few picking rain, summer picking stop", to focus on all-out, batch blitz picking.

Before and after the summer, North China, Northwest China and other places, the temperature rises very quickly, but precipitation is still not much, coupled with the spring windy, evaporation is strong, atmospheric dryness and soil drought often seriously affect the normal growth of crops. Especially before and after the wheat grouting milk ripening dry and hot wind is the important catastrophic weather leading to yield reduction, timely irrigation is the key measure of drought prevention. "Summer three days hoeing all over the ground", this time the weed growth is very fast, "a day without hoeing, three days hoeing can not." Plowing hoeing not only removes weeds, drought prevention, but also improve ground temperature, accelerate the decomposition of soil nutrients, to promote cotton, corn, sorghum, peanuts and other crops in the seedling period of strong growth is very important.

After the summer, is a critical period of early rice planting, and this period of rain comes sooner or later and the amount of rain, and the future harvest has a close relationship. Farmer's proverb: "no summer, the plow and harrow high hanging." "Summer without rain, pestle and mortar without rice." Folk also fear the summer heat and weigh the custom, it is said that this day after weighing, not afraid of the summer heat, will not lose weight, otherwise there will be disease. Jiangxi area there is a custom of drinking tea in the summer, said not to drink tea in the summer, will be a summer of suffering. As early as in ancient times, kings also often in the initial days of summer, to go outside the city to welcome the summer, welcome the summer day is the day of summer.

"Rituals of the Moon" chapter, explaining the standing summer said: "Gryllotalpa chirping, earthworms out, Wang Gua Sheng, bitter vegetables show." Description at this time of year, the frogs began to clamor the arrival of summer, earthworms are busy helping farmers to turn over the soil, the countryside ridges of wild vegetables are also competing with each other out of the soil day to day climbing long. Early in the morning when people welcome the early summer sunshine, strolling in the countryside fields, seaside beaches, you will feel the deep love of nature from the gentle sunshine. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the color of the skin, the color of the skin, and the color of the skin.

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