1, eggs. Eating eggs in the long summer can not only stand the test of "summer", but also bring a complete life. There is a custom of eating eggs in long summer, which can prevent common symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation in summer. Eggs have the effect of calming the nerves and nourishing the heart.
2. Long summer tea. In order to welcome the long summer, China and Jiangxi also have the custom of drinking tea in the long summer. It is said that if you don't drink long summer tea, you will suffer all summer. On the day of long summer, women get together to make seven kinds of tea. It is said that Chang Xia drank seven cups of tea, which can ensure that you won't feel sleepy all summer.
3. Long Summer Soup: a soup pill made of glutinous rice flour mixed with sage in summer, named "Long Summer Soup". As the saying goes, "After eating the soup in the long summer, the crushed stone becomes a pit" and "After eating happily in the long summer, one foot crosses the river". There are often strong winds around the long summer, which is called "Dragon King Storm". When the east wind rises in summer, people usually think that there will be floods. As the saying goes, "long summer brings east storms." When it thunders in summer, there will be more thunderstorms in the future. As the saying goes, "It thunders for three days in long summer".
4. Junzi cuisine: Junzi cuisine is a seasonal vegetable listed around the long summer. It is said that after eating Junda cuisine, you will not get prickly heat in summer, and your skin will be as smooth as Junda.
7. Seven porridge: There is a custom of eating "seven porridge" in the long summer. Farmers' neighbors give each other beans and rice and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge" Eating this porridge represents the harmony between neighbors, which is the joint effort of Qixin to go to Xia Geng for summer sowing.
6, long summer rice. In the old Long Summer Festival, red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans were mixed with white rice to cook "five-color rice", which was called long summer rice. At present, some families in urban and rural areas in Ningbo still maintain this ancient style, but the ingredients of long summer rice are changed to five other foods: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots and mustard, and bacon or bacon, which is called five kinds of rice.
7. Black rice. Black rice is made by squeezing black rice leaves and soaking glutinous rice in steamed rice. It is said that eating black rice in long summer will not lead to summer, but it can dispel wind and detoxify and prevent mosquito bites.
8. Black rice cake. Black rice cake is also one of the traditional snacks in long summer, but it doesn't mean black rice that is usually eaten. Secondly, the black rice leaves are mashed and soaked in water, and the glutinous rice is soaked in the black rice leaf juice to dye it black. After the soaked black glutinous rice is steamed with sugar, it is pressed into glutinous rice cakes by hand.
9, three fresh. There is a doggerel that tastes three kinds of delicious food for the long summer. Sanxian is generally divided into "ground sanxian", "tree sanxian" and "water sanxian". Three kinds of fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber. There are few cherries, loquats and apricots on the tree. The three fresh waters are conch, yellow croaker and shad.
10, light cake. There is a tradition of eating "light cakes" in the long summer. Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and put the fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and discarded vegetables in it to eat together.
1 1, changxiamo. Eating long summer steamed buns can relieve summer heat and disasters. During the Spring Festival, every household should leave a few steamed buns and hang them outside the high wall to dry, so as to prepare for steaming steamed buns in the long summer. On the day when the long summer comes, soak the remaining dry steamed buns in water, squeeze out the water, add flour, mix them with eggs and leeks, stir them into a paste, and then fry them in oil and eat them. This means eating long summer steamed buns, which means that the whole family will spend the summer safely.
12, summer cake. Also known as sesame cake, it has different shapes, such as champion riding, Guanyin giving away children and monkeys holding peaches. There are two kinds of bread: sweet and salty. Salty flour cakes are made of shredded pork and leeks, dipped in garlic paste, and sweet flour cakes add more sugar. Spring rolls are wrapped in refined pancakes with fried bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork and other fillings, sealed with flour mixed with egg white, and then fried in a hot oil pan until Huang eats.