What food do you eat in the summer solstice solar terms?
1, hot surface
Eating hot noodles in hot summer is called "pot picking", which is said to have the meaning of "eliminating evil". Eating hot noodles is to drive away evil and sweat more to get rid of the moisture and summer heat in the human body.
2. Summer solstice soup
People in Changsha, Hunan, eat soup balls made of glutinous rice flour mixed with rat grass on the summer solstice, which is called "Summer solstice soup". As the folk saying goes, "Eat the summer solstice soup, and the mashed stone steps into a pit". "Eat a ball on the summer solstice, and cross the river with one foot", which means that you are extremely powerful and as light as a swallow.
3. Summer solstice cake
After the summer harvest, new wheat is on the market, so it is a custom to eat noodles every day and try new ones. Some people mix them with wheat flour and spread them into pancakes for baking cooked food. Sandwiched with vegetables, pods, tofu, and bacon, they are eaten after ancestor worship, which is commonly called "summer solstice cake".
4. Litchi
Cantonese in Guangzhou and Qinzhou and Yulin in Guangxi all like to eat dog meat and litchi on the summer solstice, and they are not hot together. Eating a lot of litchi is easy to cause hypoglycemia, that is, "litchi disease", so it must be moderate. Drinking a little salt water or mung bean water, melon water, and rehmannia soup before and after eating litchi has the effect of relieving summer heat.
5. Zongzi
Many areas have the habit of eating zongzi after the summer solstice, which does not mean that they only eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. The glutinous rice and red dates used in zongzi are actually more positive foods. Eating zongzi on the summer solstice is really good for the human body.
6, new wheat
In some parts of Shandong, it is a custom to cook new wheat grains on the summer solstice. Children use small hedges made of new wheat straw to fish new wheat grains in soup, which is both a taste and a game.
7. Lettuce and cold noodles
In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". According to the customs of old Beijing, lettuce and cold noodles can be eaten as early as the summer solstice every year. Eating these raw and cold foods can effectively help reduce fire and stimulate appetite, but it will not damage your health because it is too cold. Therefore, whenever the summer solstice approaches, cold noodles and other foods begin to sell.
8. Dog meat
Eating dog meat on the summer solstice is mainly popular in Guangdong, China. There is a proverb in Guangdong that says "dogs on the summer solstice have no way out", which is the custom of eating dog meat on the summer solstice. It is worth noting that dog meat is hot, and eating dog meat on the summer solstice should be enough. Don't eat too much, so as not to cause physical discomfort such as getting angry.
9. Amaranth and gourd
In some areas, on the day of the summer solstice, underage nephews and nieces will go to their mother's house for dinner, and uncle's family will prepare amaranth and gourd for cooking, which means that eating amaranth will not cause the disease, and eating gourd legs will give them strength.
10, summer solstice eggs
Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi in southern Hunan eat summer solstice eggs. On the summer solstice, the whole egg is cooked, peeled and boiled with red dates, which is called "eating summer solstice eggs". In southern Hunan, mainly Jiahe, Lanshan and Guiyang get up in the morning of the summer solstice, cook the whole egg, dye the skin of the egg with red paper or red dye, put it in a small net bag, tie it on the chest of teenagers and children, and hang it until noon or afternoon, then peel off the eggshell and eat the egg. People think that eating eggs on the summer solstice can strengthen the body and stomach and walk vigorously. As the saying goes, "The summer solstice eats eggs, but the slate is trampled."
Folk activities of summer solstice solar terms
1, Summer Solstice Sacrifice to God
As mentioned in the preface, the ancient summer solstice festival is as grand as the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom has existed since the Zhou Dynasty. In addition to holding a grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods, the imperial court prayed for the peace of the country and the people. Farmers everywhere are busy offering sacrifices to the gods to pray for good weather. Northerners pray for rain in case of drought; Southerners seek more sunshine to prevent floods. During the Song Dynasty, from the day of the Summer Solstice, officials in the DPRK had to have a holiday for three days. Today, many areas still retain the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven on the summer solstice.
2. Eat noodles on the summer solstice
As the saying goes: "Winter Solstice jiaozi Summer Solstice Noodles", summer Solstice Day, the most indispensable is the bowl of "Summer Solstice Noodles" with flowing water. Summer solstice noodle is a custom of Han nationality, which is popular in most parts of the country. Qing Pan Rongbi's "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing": "It's a day when furniture eats cold noodles, that is, it is said that the water surface is also." There is a folk saying that "eating noodles on the summer solstice makes a day shorter". Although the summer solstice is not the hottest time in summer, it means that the hot summer has arrived. People began to change their diet from the summer solstice, taking low-calorie, easy-to-make, cool food as the main diet, and noodles are usually the first choice for ordinary families. Therefore, the summer solstice surface is also called the "subduction surface".
3. Give each other folding fan powder
In the ancient imperial court, after the summer solstice, the royal family took out the ice "stored in winter and used in summer" to "avoid summer and shelter", and from the Zhou Dynasty, it was used in successive dynasties and became a system. In the ancient Liao country, on the summer solstice, women gave each other folding fans and powdered fat capsules to get rid of the smell of sweat. "Fuyang miscellaneous? "Li Yi": "On the summer solstice, when you enter the fan and the powder fat bag, you have to resign." "Fan" to generate wind; "Powder fat" is applied to disperse turbid gas caused by body heat and prevent prickly heat.
Climatic characteristics of summer solstice solar terms
1, convective weather
After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly, and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm suddenly comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it "summer rain separates the fields". Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, skillfully used this kind of weather to write a famous poem, "Sunrise in the east and rain in the west, the road is sunny but sunny." The heavy precipitation brought by convective weather is not all as beautiful as described in the poem, and often brings local disasters. In the poem "Summer Rain", the poet Xu Shuxin also described the thunderstorm weather in summer appropriately: "In summer, the wind is hot and the frogs sing cicadas and attack the dust. The golden gongs are ringing in the sky, and the cold rain is like money. "
2. Rainstorm weather
In most cases, during the "Summer Solstice" period, it is rainy in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Jianghuai Valley, and there are frequent rainstorms, which are easy to cause floods and even threaten people's lives and property. Attention should be paid to strengthening flood control work.
3, Jianghuai Meiyu
The summer solstice season is the rainy season in the Jianghuai area. At this time, it is the yellow ripening period of plums in the south of the Yangtze River. The air is very humid. The cold and warm air masses meet here and form a trough of low pressure, which leads to rainy and continuous weather.
4. Hot weather
Like the winter solstice, the summer solstice is a solar term that reflects the change of four seasons. Astronomy stipulates that the summer solstice is the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere. After the summer solstice, although the direct point of the sun began to move southward from the Tropic of Cancer, the daytime in the northern hemisphere began to shorten gradually, and the height of the sun began to decrease day by day at noon for the Tropic of Cancer and its northern area, but the heat radiated by the sun to the ground was still more than that radiated from the ground to the air, so the temperature would continue to rise in the future, so there is a saying that the summer solstice is not too hot.