The corresponding foods eaten in 24 solar terms are as follows:

beginning of spring, commonly known as "Dachun", is used to eating radish, ginger, onion and bread on this day, which is called "Biting Spring"; Beginning of spring also has its own food, mainly spring cakes, radishes, spiced dishes, etc. Spring rolls are popular in the south.

Rainwater is an old custom in the north. On this day, ordinary people eat noodles, spring cakes, popcorn, etc. Different regions have different foods, but most of them are related to dragons. Generally, food names are added with the title of "dragon", such as eating dumplings as eating "dragon ears"; Eating noodles is called eating "dragon beard"; Eating rice is called eating "dragon son"; Eating wonton is called eating "longan"

"Rain Festival, Going Back to Mother's Home" is a popular holiday custom in western Sichuan. At this time, the married daughter will go home to visit her parents, and the typical gift is called "canned meat", that is, stewed pig's feet, snow-capped soybeans and kelp in a casserole, and then sealed the jar with red paper and red rope to show her gratitude and respect for their parenting.

In ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with fragrant scent and wormwood to drive them away.

The solar terms are warm and cold at first, and the climate is dry. Because pears quench thirst, people have the custom of eating pears in shock. In some areas of Shandong, people bake pancakes in the courtyard on the day of fright; In Shaanxi, some areas have to eat fried beans after being shocked; In Yanbei, Shanxi, farmers want to eat pears on the day of fright, which means to leave pests.

at the vernal equinox, there was a custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox" in the old days. Spring vegetables are a kind of wild amaranth, also known as Artemisia chunbi. In the south of the Yangtze River, it is popular to reward oxen and offer sacrifices to hundreds of birds. < P > According to the custom of old Beijing, people have to eat snowballing in the spring equinox in order to ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings. The origin of snowballing usury is extraordinary, and its processing materials include rhubarb rice noodles, yellow bean, red bean paste, white sugar, sesame oil, osmanthus fragrans, green shredded pork and melon seeds, which is enough to meet the requirement of diversification of ingredients in the nutritional dietary guidelines. Its production is divided into three processes: blank making, stuffing and molding. The outer layer of the "snowballing donkey" is covered with bean noodles, which is golden yellow, sweet with bean flavor, soft and unique, and it is a delicious food for all ages.

During the Qingming period, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River. Green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called "Wheat Straw" and squeezing out juice, then mixing this juice with dried pure glutinous rice flour, and then making dumplings; There is a custom of eating prickly heat (called cold utensils in ancient times) all over the north and south.

Due to the combination of the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, some places still keep the habit of eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cold cakes; Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cold sorghum rice.

In Grain Rain, for fishermen, Grain Rain Festival is a popular custom of offering sacrifices to the sea. According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire, ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. So no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink.

In the north, there is a custom of eating Toona sinensis in Grain Rain. Before and after Grain Rain, Toona sinensis trees sprouted buds. At this time, Toona sinensis was mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis was tender as silk before the rain. The edible history of Toona sinensis has been more than a thousand years, and it has spread all over the country in the Han Dynasty, and it can be enjoyed from dignitaries to civilian workers.

In the old rural areas of long summer, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice to cook "five-color rice", and later it evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese bean meat. The dish consisted of amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "long summer rice".

boiled eggs with black tea or walnut shells are called "long summer eggs" and fed to each other. Weave egg covers with colored threads and hang them on children's chests or on curtains. Children generally play the game of eating eggs and fighting eggs, relying on long summer eggs for play, and winning by making the eggshell firm but not broken. As the saying goes, "long summer hangs eggs on his chest, and children don't suffer from summer." There are still five-color silk ropes for children, which are called "long summer ropes".

xiaoman, Zhou Shu: bitter vegetable show on xiaoman's day. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Take it for a long time, feel at ease and benefit qi, intellectual fit and be resistant to old age. In medicine, bitter herbs are often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up.

people in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them cold and mix them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases people's appetite. It is also useful to marinate bitter herbs in yellow rice soup, which tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter herbs with boiling water and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.

awn seed means that crops with awns such as wheat are ripe. The custom of offering sacrifices to the god of flowers on the day of planting mang seeds. There is a custom of cooking plums in the season of awning, which has existed since the Xia Dynasty. There are many ways to cook plums. The simple one is to cook the plum juice with sugar or mix it with dried plums evenly, or to cook the plum juice with salt or mix it with dried plums evenly, and the more elegant one is to add perilla into it.

The ebony produced in the north of China is very famous. When it is cooked with licorice, hawthorn and rock sugar, it is made into the best summer product-sour plum soup.

summer solstice, "winter solstice jiaozi summer solstice noodles", delicious Beijingers pay attention to eating noodles on this day, and the sunshine is the longest in the summer solstice, so Shaoxing, China has the slang of "having fun, having fun with the summer solstice". In the old days, people, regardless of wealth, sacrificed their ancestors in summer, commonly known as "making the summer solstice."

in addition to the regular offerings, a plate of silk cakes is added. At that time, after the summer harvest, the new wheat came into the market. Because of the new custom of eating noodles every day, the proverb "Winter Solstice Wonton Summer Solstice Noodles" was put forward. There are also people who cook wheat paste, that is, they mix wheat flour and bake it as pancakes, which also means tasting new things.

In the summer, there used to be a folk custom of "eating new things", that is, after the summer, farmers tasted new rice, and after grinding the newly cut rice into rice, they prepared meals for the worship of the God of Grains and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new things" means "eating new things", which is the first new day after the Summer Festival. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice to cook with old rice, plus newly listed vegetables. Therefore, there is a folk saying that millet is eaten in a small summer and grain is eaten in a big summer.

In the heat of summer, there are some folk customs in China, such as drinking tea, drying ginger, burning incense and drinking mutton soup.

twenty-four solar term said, "The summer heat is in the middle of June. Summer heat, heat, is divided into size, small at the beginning of the month, big in the middle of the month, and now it is hot in Judah. " Its climatic characteristics are: "Dou refers to C as a great summer heat, and the weather in Sri Lanka is much stronger than a small summer heat, so it is called a great summer heat.

many places in Guangdong have the custom of eating fairy grass in the summer. Xiancao, also known as Mesona blume and Xiancao, is an important medicinal and edible plant resource, and is known as Xiancao because of its magical summer-heat relieving effect. After drying its stems and leaves, it can be made into grass jelly, which is called bean jelly in Guangdong area and is a kind of dessert to cool off the heat. In the northern part of China, the custom of eating noodles, jiaozi, eggs, etc. is popular in summer.

In beginning of autumn, people have the custom of divining whether the weather is cold or hot when they are in beginning of autumn. There are folk sayings: long summer grows eggplant, and beginning of autumn eats eggplant. Beginning of autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Folk custom beginning of autumn put melons, steamed preserved eggplant and fragrant glutinous soup in the yard the day before, and ate them in the beginning of autumn.

after the bitter summer, people mostly lose a little weight. With the autumn wind, the appetite is wide open, and I want to eat something good, add some nutrition and compensate for the loss in summer. Northerners call it "sticking autumn fat".

The custom of decocting medicinal tea in summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. During the summer, every household has the habit of frying herbal tea. First, they go to the pharmacy to prepare prescriptions, and then they fry tea at home for drinking, which means that they should eat something "bitter" in autumn. In addition, another food that old Fuzhou eats in the summer is white meatballs; The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in the summer.

Ducks, especially Ma ducks in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake in Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cool, and they are suitable for being fat and thin. If there is no time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; People who are free will stew "radish old duck pot" or make "braised duck pieces" at home and give them to their neighbors. This is what the saying goes, sending ducks in the summer will save everyone.

Bailu, a native of southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, has the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine. In the old days, when Bailu arrived in rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year, every family made wine to entertain guests, and people often brought Bailu rice wine to the city.

There is a custom of drinking rice wine in Bailu in Hunan. Every year on Bailu Festival, every household treats guests with Bailu rice wine, which is sweet and warm, and is most suitable for autumn. Bailu wine is made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

Fuzhou people have a long-standing custom of eating longan on the day of the Millennium, and they think longan is very tonic. Old Suzhou will eat some pomegranates, ginkgo, pears, etc. to nourish yin and moisten the lungs; I will also eat some eels (eels). At this time, eels are the most plump and the best time to taste. Therefore, Suzhou has the saying of "White Dew Eels and first frost Crabs"; People believe that eating sweet potatoes in Bailu can prevent stomach acid after eating sweet potatoes and shredded sweet potatoes all year round, so farmers used to eat sweet potatoes on Bailu Festival in the old days.

The autumnal equinox is in Lingnan area. In the past, on the autumnal equinox, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables, a kind of wild amaranth. Picked autumn vegetables are generally "boiled soup" with fish fillets, called "autumn soup". In Nanjing, it is popular to eat "osmanthus duck", use ordinary salted duck and taste it with osmanthus brine.

Cold dew is close to the Double Ninth Festival, when chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In order to get rid of autumn dryness, it is customary to drink "chrysanthemum wine" in some areas. Another big custom of cold dew is eating crabs. Ancient poetry day: "September ball navel October tip, holding a claw drinking chrysanthemum day."

there is also a folk proverb of "nine females and ten males". Crab meat is tender and delicious, and it is a fine and precious aquatic product. "beginning of autumn walnut white dew pear, cold dew persimmon red skin." Soft and waxy persimmons don't mature until autumn, so cold dew folks also have the habit of eating persimmons.

On this day in first frost, many parts of China have the custom of eating persimmons. In the eyes of local people, it can not only keep out the cold and keep warm, but also tonify the bones and muscles, so it is a very good first frost food. There are many customs in first frost, and first frost Festival is also celebrated in Yunnan and Guangxi. People in Zhuang nationality pay attention to eating glutinous rice balls, killing ducks, offering sacrifices to ancestors, playing songs and celebrating the harvest.

In first frost, chrysanthemums are in full bloom. At this time, people will also hold a chrysanthemum party to express their love and reverence for chrysanthemums.

beginning of winter, commonly known as "Jiao Dong" in central Fujian, means that at the turn of autumn and winter, beginning of winter "supplements winter". In Chaoshan area of Fujian, beginning of winter wants to eat sugar cane and stir-fried fragrant rice. In Shantou, people in beginning of winter eat fragrant rice made of lotus seeds, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots, which are all warm foods. In the north, it is the custom in beginning of winter to eat jiaozi, because dumplings look like ears, and people think that if you eat them, your ears will not get cold in winter.

Xiaoxue, there is a folk custom of "preserving wax in winter and preserving it to protect against winter". After a light snow, the temperature drops sharply and the weather becomes dry, which is a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and just enjoyed the food during the Spring Festival. In the north of China, people usually eat instant-boiled mutton during the light snow season. In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar.

heavy snow, as the saying goes, "light snow pickled vegetables, heavy snow pickled meat". In the old days, during the solar term of heavy snow, in some places in Nanjing, every household began to prepare salted meat, which was called "salted goods".

add star anise, cinnamon, pepper, white sugar, etc. with salt and stir-fry in a pot. When the fried pepper salt is completely cooled, apply it inside and outside the fish, meat and poultry, and knead it repeatedly until the color of the meat turns from fresh to dark and liquid oozes from the surface. Then put the meat with the remaining salt in a jar, press it with stones, put it in a cool and backlit place, and take it out after half a month. Add water to the pot.

Skim the floating foam, put the dried poultry meat in the jar layer by layer, pour the bittern, press the big stone, take it out ten days later, and hang it under the eaves of Chaoyang to dry (Qiu Bingjun: Twenty-four solar terms of China people).

As for the northern nationalities, it is already quite cold at this time. For example, there is a saying in Baotou that "light snow kills pigs and heavy snow kills sheep". When the snow season comes, it is the time to kill pigs and prepare for the New Year's goods. At this time, no matter who slaughters livestock, relatives and friends will come to help, and the owner will prepare food, wine and side dishes for banquets. Therefore, the light snow and heavy snow seasons are the time for family relatives and friends to catch up and contact their feelings.

The winter solstice is regarded as a big festival. There was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year, and there was a custom to celebrate it. The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep in the winter solstice, eating jiaozi and wonton, while the southern region has the habit of eating rice balls and long noodles in the winter solstice on this day.

The winter solstice in Suzhou, Wudi, is a legacy of the legislation of the Zhou Dynasty. The winter solstice night is the end of the year, so the winter solstice is the Chinese New Year. Suzhou people have a lot of food customs during the winter solstice, and they want to eat "reunion dinner". The names of the meals are very elegant, such as egg dumplings called "Yuanbao", bean sprouts called "ruyi cuisine", vermicelli called "golden chain" and fish called "eating more than enough".

Eating dumplings on the winter solstice, also known as the "Winter Solstice Group", is particularly popular in the south of the Yangtze River. According to historical records, this custom has existed since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the old days, Shanghainese paid the most attention to eating glutinous rice balls, which meant "perfection" and "reunion", symbolizing family harmony and auspiciousness.

slight cold, during the slight cold solar term, one of the important folk customs in the "slight cold" solar term in diet is to eat "Laba porridge". It is recorded in Yanjing's Chronicle of the Year: "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste, etc., and dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and grapes for external use. Laba porridge is also eaten on Laba Festival after slight cold, and then the taste of the year is getting stronger.

There are many custom diets in the cold season, such as glutinous rice, laba porridge, meals and yellow sprouts. According to "Miscellanies of Jinmen", there was a custom of eating yellow sprouts in Tianjin in the old days. Yellow sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, made from Chinese cabbage buds. After the winter solstice, cut off the stems and leaves of the cabbage, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about two inches from the ground, covered with fertilizer, and not ventilated. After half a month, it will be crisp and tender.

People in the Great Cold have different dietary customs, such as eating "cake for eliminating cold" in the Great Cold in old Beijing, eating glutinous rice in Guangdong, drinking chicken soup in Nanjing and frying spring rolls in Anhui. During the cold season, people are busy getting rid of the old and decorating the new, pickling new year's dishes and preparing new year's goods, because the Spring Festival, the most important festival for China people, is coming. In the meantime, there is also a very important day for northerners-Laba, the eighth day of December in the lunar calendar.

On this day, people cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with whole grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates and lotus seeds, which is an indispensable staple food in the Chinese New Year.