Every traditional festival will have one or two represent the festival seasonal food. Such as the Lantern Festival soup dumplings, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes, then the upcoming Lixia is the same, there are a lot of Lixia time to eat traditional food around the world ~

Lixia is one of the traditional twenty-four solar terms. It represents the symbolism: farewell to spring and the beginning of summer. The beginning of summer heralds the arrival of summer and the weather will be gradually hot. In ancient times, people would hold grand ceremonies to welcome the summer, and a series of customary practices such as eating "five-color rice" and eggs were gradually formed in the folklore, signifying the elimination of disasters and praying for blessings.

Summer Rice:

On the day before the first day of summer, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, known as "Duxia summer rice". They dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some fava beans, and use some garlic cloves. On the first day of summer, we will pocket the rice and ingredients to cook in the open air, put plums, cherries, etc. on the rice, and send it to the people who gave it to the family the day before, and each family will have a small bowl of it. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.

The summer rice with bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth and other condiments, containing "five grains," meaning, eat five-color rice in the summer, there is a year of good health symbolism.

Summer egg:

This is a Han Chinese custom south of the Yangtze River. Every summer, people have to eat boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, that eating eggs in the summer can strengthen the body. Lixia eggs are the most classic food on the day of Lixia. The day before the first day of summer, the family began to cook the summer eggs, usually with tea leaves or walnut shells cooked, watching the eggshell slowly turn red, full of fragrant house. Tea eggs should be eaten while hot, eat a good Shaoxing wine, sprinkled with some fine salt, wine and tea, and fragrant and flavorful.

In addition to eating Rixia eggs, there is another way to play. Boiled eggs, pick out the whole unbroken, with colorful thread woven into the egg cover, hanging on the child's chest, or hanging on the tent. Children also want to lean on the summer egg (that is, touch the egg), that is the day of the most happy and exciting thing, leaning on the egg to the egg shell firm and not broken for the win.

Lixia congee:

Lixia congee is a traditional snack in Leiyang, Hunan Province, belonging to the summer festival food. This snack is the Leiyang diet one of the best. Leiyang people have always attached importance to agricultural and mulberry activities, and are particularly sensitive to the twenty-four solar terms. Each festival will be approaching, people always love through some ritual form of a festival food, intuitive, image to remind each other not to forget farming, not miss the farm, from the food *** enjoy the fun of life. For example, the summer, it is the time of transplanting rice seedlings, farming hard, every family will boil the summer porridge, to express the good wishes for a good harvest.

The summer porridge is made of rice as the main ingredient, accompanied by refined meat, glutinous rice balls, vermicelli, dried bamboo shoots, tofu, pork, jujubes, peas, bean sprouts, eggs and other dozen kinds of condiments boiled into. After starting the pot, it is steaming hot and full of aroma. Neighbors, give each other, one to show their own craftsmanship, two to melt feelings. Unfortunately, the congee can only be eaten at the beginning of summer.

Lixia Guo:

Lixia Guo, also known as Lixia Kuei, is a festive food custom. In the Lixia Festival to eat a kind of kuey teow and dumplings, but is steamed with rice and rolled into a small ball, and then with bean sprouts, dried beans, shrimp, peas and other things cooked into a "soup", called "Lixia soup", also known as "Lixia kuey teow", the family ************************************. ", the family **** food. Proverb: "ate the Lixia Kuei", not afraid of heavy rain like a note (dare to work in the rain).

After Lixia, it is a hot summer, people eat some food in Lixia, often send a wish for blessing to keep safe.

Other customs:

The people of Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, believe that in the summer to eat eggs on the (meaning "support") heart, eat bamboo shoots on the legs, eat peas on the eye;

Changsha, Hunan, people eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup balls, the name "summer soup!

Hunan Changsha people eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made into soup balls on the first day of summer, called "Lixia Jiao", the proverb "eat Lixia Jiao, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "Lixia ate a group (pronounced as "lump"), a foot across the river," meaning that the power is unparalleled, light as a swallow.

Shanghai farmers in suburban counties in the summer with wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strips of food, called "wheatworms", people eat, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance";

Tongshan County, Hubei Province, the folk of the summer as an important festival, Tongshan people ate the summer, the people of Tongshan, the people of the summer, the people of the summer, the people of the summer, the people of the summer, the people of the summer, the people of the summer as a major festival. Festival, Tongshan people eat summer bubble (strawberry), shrimp, bamboo shoots, called "eat bubble bright eyes, eat shrimp strength, eat bamboo shoots strong foot bone";

South Fujian region to eat shrimp noodles in the summer, that is, the purchase of prawns mixed with noodles in the cooking, prawns cooked red, for the auspicious color, and shrimp and the summer resonance, this is the wish for the summer.

Fujian Min Dong area in the summer to eat "light cake" (flour baked with a little salt) based.

Eastern Fujian Zhouning, Fu'an and other places will be light cake into the water soaked dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places will be light cake cut in half, will be fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, bad vegetables and other sandwiches and eaten.

Zhouning County, pure pool town of some villages to eat "summer paste", there are two main categories, one is rice paste, one is groundnut flour paste. Large pots of paste soup, soup content is extremely rich, there are meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu, and so on, neighbors invited each other to drink paste soup. This is a little similar to the rural Zhejiang East summer to eat "seven porridge" custom.

"Seven family congee" and "seven family tea" is also considered another form of summer tasting, seven family congee is a collection of the left and right neighboring houses of the family's rice, coupled with a variety of beans and brown sugar, boiled into a large pot of congee, by everyone to share food. Seven family tea is each family brought their own freshly roasted tea leaves, mixed and cooked or brewed into a large pot of tea, and then gathered by everyone **** drink. These porridges or teas are not necessarily very tasty food, but these ceremonies can be said to have been important bonding activities in rural society in the past.

The East Zhejiang rural summer has eaten "seven porridge" custom, that is, farming families left collar right house each other beans, rice, and to sugar, cooked into a pot of porridge, called "seven porridge", said to eat this porridge, neighborly harmony, a heart to summer farming summer planting.