There are three waiting periods in long summer: one waiting for the sound of a cricket. Long summer is said to be a brown and black frog. With the chirping of frogs, the taste of summer is strong; Wait for the earthworm to come out. As the underground temperature continues to rise at this time, earthworms climb from underground to the ground to breathe fresh air. Earthworms are an out-and-out object, living in damp and dark soil. When the sun is in full swing, earthworms are impatient and come out to join in the fun; Third, wait for Wang Guasheng. At this time, the melon has begun to grow and mature, and people can pick it and give it to each other.

In long summer season, the vegetation is luxuriant, and all kinds of fruits bear fruit. The roller blinds are lowered and the round fan is gently shaken. Incense curled up, and the new tea lingered. The new wheat is ripe, the broad bean is fragrant and the wine is sweet. Paeonia lactiflora, hydrangea, green plum, cherry, it's summer on earth.

Chinese herbaceous peony

Compared with peony, peony has a gentle and lovely quiet place.

How to distinguish peony from peony? Just remember that peony is woody and peony is herbaceous. Peony grows taller and peony is shorter. Peony blooms earlier than Paeonia lactiflora and generally blooms in Grain Rain, so it is called Grain Rain flower. Paeonia lactiflora blooms in long summer, and their flowering periods are just a solar term apart. In addition, peony flowers are mostly single plants, while peony flowers are clustered. Peony leaves are trifoliate and dark green, and the upper leaves of peony are simple and bright green.

Plum, cherry

Grain Buds

In mid-April, people who are small are full, and things are small and full here. Xiaoman has three waits: a bitter vegetable show. "Yaya" takes tea as a bitter herb. Perennial compositae, which blooms in spring and summer, feels bitter when it is angry, and is edible when it is tender; Second, wait for weeds to die. Mimosa is a kind of grass with fine branches and leaves, such as water chestnut and green fern. Flowers bloom in March and bear fruit in April. Born of yin, he died in summer when the sun is not strong; Third, wait for the wheat to arrive in autumn. Another five days will be "the autumn of wheat." At this time, although it is summer, it is autumn for wheat, and summer wheat can be harvested.

In the full season, the cherry is red, the mulberry is purple and the loquat is ripe yellow. Warm wind gives birth to wheat in sunny days, while grass in shade wins flowers.

loquat

Loquat trees mostly bloom in autumn and winter. Huang Yueyuan and Huang Delin in the Republic of China said in the Flower Classic: "Only loquat in the fruit has four seasons, autumn blooms in winter, spring ripens in summer;" The trunk is tall, the branches and leaves are swaying, the frost does not fade, and the corolla is frosty and snowy. In the early summer, the fruit is ripe, the color is yellow, the outside is covered with fluff, and the juice is as rich as honey, and the name of Jiangnan is also. "

Loquat is produced in Dongshan and Xishan in Suzhou. The main formula of the famous Chinese patent medicine "loquat cream" is loquat leaves.

lychee

Litchi is delicious, but don't eat too much, it is easy to get angry.

Peeling fresh litchi and soaking it in light salt water and freezing it in the freezer can not only prevent excessive internal heat, but also have the effect of invigorating spleen and resolving stagnation. Or directly take local materials and drink them with litchi shells, which can also relieve the symptoms of getting angry when eating litchi.

honey peach

To deal with peach hair, you only need to put some edible alkali in clear water, throw the peach in and soak it, stir it gently, and wash it for a few times and the peach hair will fall off. Peach is rich in iron, and it is indeed a nourishing food. The peach kernel in peaches also has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, relieving asthma and relieving cough.

Grain in Ear

The may festival means that there is a kind of awn, and the grain can be planted. "It's nearly May of the lunar calendar, and the month that begins today is called midsummer.

Three stages of mango: one stage of mantis birth. Mantis gave birth in the forest in late autumn last year. At this time, she felt the yin qi quietly born and broke out of her shell. At the second sound. That is, shrike, "shrike sings in may, and its sound is the parting of spring, suggesting that the summer heat has arrived;" Three waiting for the tongue to be silent. Kuzu, the "anti-tongue", can learn other birds' songs. The tongue feels yang, and stops singing when it senses the appearance of yin.

In the season of awning, Huangmei rainy season and heavy rain. Liuhua shines brightly, and loquat is half yellow. May Festival, hanging Ai in the house, carrying sachets, bathing in orchid soup, dragon boat race, fragrant leaves. Frogs are singing in the grass, and fields are busy with farming. A crescent moon is like water, and two raindrops are like eyebrows.

Liuhua

"Liu Hua shines brightly in May." A poem tells the story of the beautiful flowers in May.

The red color of Liuhua is best described as "bright and beautiful", which is neither so strong nor so gaudy. If you use painting pigments to adjust it, you should add some gamboge to the cinnabar color, showing a kind of brightness with a slight orange red.

Pomegranate originated in Persia, and it is said that it was brought back to China from the Western Regions by Zhang Qian. Now the most famous pomegranate producing area in China is Lintong.

China people love the bright red of pomegranate flower so much that they borrow this red from pomegranate flower and dye it into a woman's skirt. "hibiscus is wearing a pomegranate skirt." Over time, slowly, people in China simply called the red dress "pomegranate skirt", and later, they simply referred to it as a synonym for women. Men admire and submit to their beloved women, which is called "falling at the feet of pomegranate skirt".

Liu Hua is in full bloom in May, so May is also called "Liu Yue". Liu Hua, the flower god, has also become a folk fairy Zhong Kui to ward off evil spirits and disasters. I often see the portrait of Zhong Kui painted by the people, with a pomegranate flower as bright as fire in my ear. It's really charming in power and prestige, forming a kind of contrast.

Cape jasmine

Among the three white flowers in summer, jasmine originated in India and Persia, white orchid came from Java, Indonesia, and the seeds of gardenia are said to come from Tianzhu, which is the most fragrant summer flower.

In Song Dynasty, Zeng Duanbo called Gardenia a "Zen Friend" in Sanyu Redundant Pen. In the Song Dynasty, Jiang Meibian chanted gardenia: "The pure dharma body is like snow, and the forest is lonely at night." Here, "Dharma Body" is used to call Gardenia, which means that the purity of Gardenia implies the realm of self-purification of practitioners.

Liu Lingxian, a poetess of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the Liang Dynasty, once gave a poem describing gardenia to Xie Daowen, a talented woman she admired (Xie Daowen is Wang Xizhi's daughter-in-law): "Gardenia is the most important thing." Gardenia is homophonic with "Zhizi", because it is a gift between talented women. At this time, Gardenia has more feelings of appreciate each other.

The fruit of Huangzhi breeds the most delicious yellow in nature. Gardenia fruit was one of the most commonly used raw materials for dyeing yellow plants in ancient times. However, gardenia dyed yellow easily faded in the sun, so after the Song Dynasty, it was mostly replaced by Sophora japonica dyed yellow.

wormwood

The custom of inserting mugwort in Dragon Boat Festival is unprecedented in the whole country. As a medicine, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic, pure in yang, and has the functions of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, and expelling cold and dampness. "

Ningbo and wormwood are the main raw materials for many snacks such as Youth League. The color of wormwood as a plant dye is a very light yellow-green, which is very light and elegant. Artemisia argyi also entered the study room, which is one of the main raw materials of traditional inkpad.

Summer Solstice

The sun is long and the shadow is short, so it is called the summer solstice. Twenty-four solar term: "Mid-May, summer, holiday. To the extreme, everything here is false and extreme. "

There are three stages in the summer solstice: the first stage is staghorn dissolution. Deer's horns are born forward and belong to Yang. On the summer solstice, yin qi is born and yang qi begins to decline, so the positive antlers begin to fall off; Wait for the bell to ring. Xia Chan, commonly known as "cicada". After the summer solstice, the male cicadas feel the yin qi and sing with their wings; Third, wait for Pinellia ternata. Pinellia ternata is a yin-loving herb, born in the swamp or paddy field in midsummer, when yin and yang are half open and half closed, and it also cures the disease of half open and half closed.

Summer solstice, the night is short and the day is long. Lotus blooms in the pond, and cicadas sing in the courtyard. Bamboo fans and Bupa swim hand in hand, and the courtyard smells tea in drizzle.

gardenia

White orchids, jasmine and gardenia, commonly known as three whites in summer, have their own advantages in aroma. Jasmine and gardenia are fragrant, but they have a cold feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away, while the fragrance of white orchids is sweet and warm.

The petals of white orchids are milky white, not plain white, and the lines of flowers are more slender and smooth. That kind of gentleness and gracefulness is more attractive to people who like to paint meticulous flowers.

day lily

The flowers are close to some funnel-shaped lilies, and their colors are generally orange.

In the Book of Songs Wei Feng Boxi, there is a saying: "You can't get the grass, but you can't say the back of the tree." What Chencao said is day lilies. It means to forget, so it is also called A Girl Without Sorrow.

Zhu Xi commented: "It's worrying to forget the grass;" Back, Beitang also. " It is said that in ancient times, when a wanderer wanted to travel far away, he would first plant day lilies in Beitang, hoping to alleviate his mother's yearning for her children and forget her worries. Over time, day lilies became the "mother's flower" in ancient China. In the old saying, the mother's bedroom is called "Xuantang", the mother's birthday is called "Xuanchen", and the mother's nickname is called "Xuanqin". This kind of calendar has more emotional ties between mother and child than western carnations.

Hemerocallis has another name called "Lucong". Hemerocallis seedlings are used for cooking and taste like onions. Hemerocallis is also one of the nine detoxification grasses eaten by deer, hence the name of the deer onion. Zhou Chu said in "Local Customs": "Pregnant women wear grass to give birth to boys." So there was the name of "Yi Man Cao".

The "forgetting sorrow" of Hemerocallis fulva is not the meaning given to Hemerocallis fulva by the ancients out of thin air. As a herb, it has the effect of "relieving sorrow". It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that the seedlings and flowers of HEMEROCALLIS HEMEROCALLIS are "sweet and cool in nature, non-toxic, relieving cooking heat, benefiting the chest and diaphragm, calming the five internal organs, making people happy and worry-free, and making them look smart". "Notes on Materia Medica" said: "Hemerocallis are sweet, which makes people play well and forget their worries when they are happy." Li Jiuhua said in "Examination of Longevity": "The tender seedlings are vegetables, and the wind of eating makes people intoxicated, and they forget their worries because of their names." This has also been confirmed in modern medicine, and HEMEROCALLIS HEMEROCALLIS does have a calming and sleeping effect.

red bayberry

Myrica rubra in Yuyao and Myrica rubra in other areas of Ningbo, such as Cixi, belong to the same species of water chestnut, with small particles and sweet taste. Ding 'ao Mei produced in Wenzhou, Yongjia, Yueqing and other places in Zhejiang and Dongkui Yangmei produced in Xianju are also excellent varieties. In addition, Suzhou Dongting Xishan is also produced.

Minor Heat

Summer heat is also hot. In the heat, it is divided into sizes: small at the beginning of the month and large in the middle of the month. Today the heat is still small. "So even if the heat is already very heavy at this time, you can still add a word" small "in front to show that the heat has not yet reached its extreme.

There are three periods of light summer heat: one is warm wind. Warm, warm also. The fire in the south is booming, and the warm wind is so extreme; Second, crickets live on the wall. Crickets are small like locusts, black and shiny, like lacquer, with horns, that is, they are now promoted and born in the soil. July: "July is in the wild, August is in Yu, September is in the house, and October crickets come under my bed." This means that in the summer heat, because of the hot weather, crickets left the field and settled down under the corner of human courtyard to escape the heat; Three waiting eagles begin to be loyal. "Eagle, bird, zhi, Jude also, also. In the midsummer moon, when the two yin rises, the eagle feels yin and has a heart to kill, so it can fight for other birds, so it is called loyalty. "

Slight summer heat, neglect the warm wind, follow the slight summer heat. Hibiscus flowers are glorious, jasmine is fragrant, and mint is cool. Fish play and swim to the shallow bottom, and intermittent cicadas spread far away from trees. Under the forest moss into the study, sitting opposite Xia Feng sipping melon pulp. I hear the rain in front of the thunder mountain, and sometimes there is a heat wave rolling in. Sitting on a bamboo mat and shaking a bamboo fan makes you feel calm and naturally cool.

jasmine

Chen Chengzhong, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage, has a refreshing fragrance of jasmine tea, which quickly occupies the room and your mouth and nose with strong tension, and only then can you know the depth of the skill of "Nine Flowers". The so-called "scenting" refers to the process of jasmine scented and tea embryo scented.

mint

In summer, keep a pot of mint on the balcony. Small green leaves sway in the evening breeze, driving away the rampant mosquitoes in summer. When the wind passes by, it is cool and refreshing, making people feel being relaxed and free physically and mentally.

Mint is easy to raise. If you give some water and don't expose yourself to the sun, the branches and vines will grow wildly. Domestic mint can achieve a lot of eating pleasure, and the best thing is that it is "easy to take" inadvertently.

Mint is cool, make almond tofu and matcha pudding, and grab a few green leaves on the balcony to add a touch of coolness to both vision and taste. In hot summer, you can make a cup of lemon mint tea. Add a few pieces of mint to the lemon ice water, and if you drink one cup, the summer heat will disappear by half.

Mosquito bites, rubbing mint leaves on mosquito bites can relieve itching. This is natural toilet water. Wind-heat cold, boil a pot of mint tea with mint to help clear the internal heat. Indigestion, put a few mint leaves at the end of porridge, which can help digestion and promote appetite. Dried mint leaves can also be used as pillows, which have the effect of relieving summer heat and sleeping peacefully.

Mushroom

It's called pineapple fruit, lantern fruit and girl fruit, and its scientific name is sour pulp.

Great summer, the hottest solar term in a year. "twenty-four solar term": "In the middle of June, it is hot, so it is divided into big and small, small at the beginning of the month, big in the middle of the month, and now it is hot in Judah." The heat is in three volts, and the summer heat is generally in the middle stage of three volts.

There are three periods of great summer heat: one period of rotten grass is firefly. Terrestrial fireflies lay eggs on hay. In the first five days of the summer heat, fireflies hatched, so the ancients thought that fireflies were made of rotten grass. This is the best time to watch fireflies in a year; Second, wait for the soil to moisten the summer. On the second five days of the summer solar term, the weather was sultry, the yin was getting longer and the land began to get wet; When it rains heavily, it will do. In the last five days of the summer solar term, there are often big thunderstorms. The heavy rain weakened the heat and humidity, and the weather began to transition to beginning of autumn.

lotus

watermelon

Watermelon is named "Xi" because it comes from the western regions. Hu Jiao, a five-generation man, recorded in Shuoqi that watermelon was the seed obtained by breaking Uighur. The more dry and hot it is, the sweeter the watermelon will be, but the more rain it will be, the less sweet it will be.

After picking a good melon, you should "throw it into the clean water" and let the watermelon "float and hide" in the clear stream, so that the coolness can invade the melon skin all over. In the south of the Yangtze River, if you don't face the stream, you can soak in the well water. Even in the hottest summer days, the bottom of the well will still penetrate the shade from the ground into the watermelon.

Don't throw the skin of watermelon pulp, it can be eaten. Go straight to the green skin, cut into pieces, stir-fry and eat, which is tighter than the skin and flesh of wax gourd, with a tight bite and a fragrant smell. It can also be salted and eaten with porridge, which is lighter. Watermelon skin is cool and can cure sore throat.

syrup of plum

Its formula is: ebony with oil removed and greasy, osmanthus fragrans with phlegm and blood stasis removed, licorice with heat-clearing and detoxicating, nourishing skin, hawthorn with blood lipid lowering and blood pressure lowering, and rock sugar with qi benefiting and lung moistening.

Beijing's time-honored brand, mainly sour plum soup, still has "Xinyuanzhai". There are also Tianqiao "Qiujia", Xidan archway "Lu Yu Zhai", Dong 'anmending Street "Yu Yuan Zhai" and Qianmen Outer "Jiulong Zhai", all of which were once famous.

Suzhou also has some old brands of sour plum soup, among which Caizhizhai, a century-old brand, is the most famous. Sour plum soup in Caizhizhai has been made for more than 30 years, and it has always been the same old formula: dark plum, brown sugar, osmanthus and ginger.