1. Fuzhou: Pot side paste, bowl cake, summer cake.

Fuzhou people "cooking summer" became popular in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. On the day of the Beginning of Summer, every household grinds rice into pulp, cooks paste on the side of the tripod (pot), and spreads pancakes to "cook summer" to pray for good weather and family safety. . People also gave the tripod paste to neighbors as a way to express their feelings of connection, reflecting the friendship of Fuzhou people that "gold is everywhere and silver is everywhere".

Use clam juice as soup, boil it in a pot to get the fresh flavor, then pour the ground rice milk around the edge of the pot, and scald the rice milk into a dry skin on the edge of the pot. Use a spatula to scrape the soup into the soup, add celery, green onions, shrimp skin, shiitake mushrooms, etc. as condiments. After boiling, you will have a pot of hot "pot paste".

The Beginning of Summer every year is a food festival in Fuzhou focusing on snacks. On this day, every household grinds wheat flour and rice milk to make pancakes and bowl cakes. Use a small bowl as a mold for the bowl cake, grease it with oil, pour rice milk, sprinkle some sesame seeds on top, put the bowl on the drawer, steam over high heat for 15 minutes, take out the pan and pour the cake out of the bowl. Wan Gao is pine, spongy, soft, rich in nutrients and easy to digest.

Summer cakes, commonly known as "Xia Kueh". Fry it with wheat flour or rice milk and seasonings. There are two types: sweet and salty. For sweet ones, my mother used to make them with sugar; for salty ones, add salt, green onions, leeks or dried small shrimps, diced pork, clams, razor clams, eggs, etc. At this time, it just so happens that the new wheat comes on the scene, and we eat summer cakes. It has the charm of tasting the fruits of labor and celebrating the harvest of crops.

2. Ningde: light cakes, spring rolls, butterfly buns.

On this day, the citizens of Ningde City have their own special customs. This custom is mainly reflected in food - eating the Beginning of Summer. "Eating Beginning of Summer" is eaten at noon. For lunch on this day, people have the habit of eating pancakes, spring rolls and butterfly buns (shaped like a butterfly), and some people have the habit of eating jujube eggs.

In the Beginning of Summer in eastern Fujian, people mainly eat "light cakes" (baked with flour and a little salt). In Zhouning, Fu'an and other places in eastern Fujian, the cakes are soaked in water and made into dishes, while in Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places, the cakes are cut in half and fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, pickles, etc. Eat it.

In Jiaocheng District, people mix bean sprouts, leeks, minced meat, etc., stir-fry them, put them in "butterfly buns", or wrap them in dough to make spring rolls and eat them, because "Lixia" is pronounced with the local accent. , a bit like "stuffing", there is a folk joke that this is to fill the body to survive the hot summer.

In Shouning and Xiapu counties, people eat "Lixia porridge" on the day of the Beginning of Summer, which is a porridge made by grinding rice into rice pulp and cooking it with minced meat, peas, dried vegetables, seafood, lily petals, etc. .

In Fu'an City and Zhouning County, the cakes are cut open and fried with small bamboo shoots. Local old people say that if you eat bamboo shoots on the day of Beginning of Summer, your waist and legs will be hard and strong like bamboo shoots. .

In Pingnan and Gutian counties, people eat dishes cooked with red glutinous rice at the beginning of summer, such as red glutinous rice pork, red glutinous rice snails, red glutinous rice snails, etc.

3. Sanming: Xi Kueh and Lixia Wan.

Hakka people eat Lixia Pills, Jianning eats Xia Ci, Taining eats leek glutinous rice balls, Jiangle eats Xia Geng Wan, Shaxian and urban areas eat Xi Kueh, Yongan eats pancakes or noodles, and Datian eats rice cakes. , Youxi eats red glutinous rice meat and whole bamboo shoots, which are called "foot bones".

Xi Kueh, also written as Xi Kueh by some people, is derived from the colloquial expression of Shaxian County and is divided into two types: stuffing and no stuffing. Legend has it that during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin made a special food to hide Pang Juan from pretending to be crazy; As a seasonal snack in Shaxian County, every household used to make it during the Beginning of Summer. Of course, it is also very common in food stalls on the streets.

Hakka "hard rice balls", also called "Lixia Wan", are a seasonal delicacy in the Ninghua area, the ancestral home of the Hakkas. Every fourth month of the lunar calendar, during the "beginning of summer" season, almost every household in the urban and rural areas of Ninghua makes "hard rice balls" to welcome the arrival of summer and pray for good weather and a good harvest.

4. Longyan: oil rice, three treasures, chicken intestine noodles.

In Liancheng, for lunch on the Beginning of Summer, every household must eat the "Silver Tofu" known as the "Three Treasures" (first add the ashes of burned grapefruit leaves and bamboo leaves to salt and boil it with water, then cool it and pour it. Put the tofu in a pottery jar and let it soak for a few days.) This is a treasure; "Silver Gray Egg" (mix yellow soil with salt water, paste the whole duck egg, and put it in the jar for 40 days) (Cheng) These are the two treasures; the third treasure is bread. After farmers eat them, they are said to have a cooling and health-care effect.