Traditional summer food:

1, foot bone bamboo shoots

Eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" in summer is a unique custom in Ningbo. Not all the bamboo 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 pat flat, cut into a section of about 4 centimeters, shaped like a foot bone, eat to "foot bone Jianjian over".

2, seven porridge

The rural villages of eastern Zhejiang summer have eaten "seven porridge" custom, 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, and to go to the summer plowing and summer planting.

3, summer rice

Old summer festival, Ningbo countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white polished round-grained rice boiled into "five-color rice", called 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.

4, eggs

Eating eggs in the summer, not only can withstand the "Resistance and Resistance" test, but also bring life to completion. 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 in nature, replenish qi deficiency, have the function of tranquilizing the mind and nourishing the heart.

5, Lixia tea

In the Jiangxi area of the place has Lixia drinking tea custom, is in the Lixia this day to drink tea, if you don't drink tea that you can't easily over the summer, it will be bitter summer.

For in the day of the first summer, women have to gather seven families of tea, *** with cooking and drinking, said the first summer drinking seven families of tea, can ensure that the whole summer will not be sleepy.

6, summer soup

Summer day to eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup pills, the name "summer soup". 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 there is often a gale, the name "Dragon King storm".

East wind on the day of summer, commonly thought to have flooding, the proverb says "summer east wind and rain ripples". The day of the summer thunder, the future will be more thunderstorms, the proverb said "thunder hit the summer, three days to a".

7, Jun Tatsui

Ningbo people also eat Jun Tatsui tradition of summer, Jun Tatsui is a seasonal vegetable listed before and after summer, it is said to eat Jun Tatsui summer will not give birth to prickly heat, the skin will be as smooth as Jun Tatsui.

8, wheatworms

Summer Festival, farmers in suburban counties of Shanghai wheat flour and sugar made into inch-long strips of food, called wheatworms, people ate, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance to Summer". 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 put sugar plums, wine.

Summer's health tips:

1, lotus seeds

Heart season is summer, when the heart is the most fragile, the summer heat forces people to be easily irritable and sad, easy to heart blood. Although the taste of lotus seed core is relatively bitter, but can clear the heart fire, is the heart of the spirit of the good, can also strengthen the stomach and intestines.

2, summer peace of mind: honey

Honey glucose, vitamins can regulate the function of the nervous system, relieve nervous tension, promote sleep. A cup of honey water before going to bed can improve the quality of sleep.

3, summer fire: bitter melon

Don't feel bitter melon bitter, bitter melon, the more bitter, defeating fire and clearing heat to reduce the effect of fire, the better!