Wuxi - taste the three fresh

The three fresh is divided into ground three fresh, tree three fresh, water three fresh.

The ground three fresh: is the ground growth of broad beans, Buanchuan, cucumber (some say Buanchuan, Yuanmai, broad beans, and Buanchuan, broad beans, garlic shoots).

Tree three fresh: is the tree bearing cherries, batch handle, apricots (also said plums, apricots, cherries, and said plums, cherries, toon heads).

Water three fresh: is the river swimming in the sea snail, puffer fish, anchovies (also said to be anchovies, pomfret, yellowtail, and said to be anchovies, silverfish, Zi crabs fish).

One of them is the most common to taste the three fresh foods of the earth, and some places have the custom of eating moldy tofu at the beginning of summer, saying that if you eat moldy tofu, you won't have bad luck.

Changsha eat "summer soup"

In the old days, Changsha farmers believe that it is advisable to rain on the day of summer, otherwise, summer and fall main drought. Farmers' proverbs said: "If it doesn't rain in the summer, the plow and harrow will be hung high" and "If it doesn't rain in the summer, the shrimp will be boiled in a pot and the fish will be boiled in a pot (which means that the water in the pond has dried up)".

Changsha people in the summer this day to eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of glutinous rice balls, called "summer soup". As the saying goes: "Eat the summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer to eat a ball, a foot across the river".

South Fujian eat "shrimp noodles"

In South Fujian, families often mixed with the red lees in the noodles cooked for the whole family to eat, because the red lees color red, for the auspicious color, and the role of the fermentation, in order to symbolize the development of the meaning of wealth, and red lees to help digestion, good health.

This custom developed later, red lees were replaced by sea shrimp, called "eat shrimp (summer and shrimp Minnan language homophonic) noodles. Sea shrimp cooked into red, the same color as the red bad, so as to express the wishes of the summer.

Northeast Gan eat "Lixia"

"Lixia" this day, in northeast Gan have eaten "Lixia" habit, just like we eat Qingming Ai, Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, Chrysanthemum to eat osmanthus wine. The same as we ate the Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, Chanyang eat osmanthus wine, are passed down from the old generation there.

The production of "Lixia" is very simple:

1. "Dry". First, the rice is boiled half-cooked and then mashed, then a part of it is kneaded and pressed into pieces, then the pressed pieces are cut into slices, and finally fried in oil, which is called "dry".

2. "Soup". The remaining portion is rolled into small balls like dumplings and cooked with mushrooms, garlic, peppers, peas, fava beans, pumpkins, potatoes and other spring vegetables in a soup, which is called "soup".

"Dried" is eaten by hand and is fragrant and delicious; "soup" is eaten with a big bowl regardless of adults and children to show that it is plentiful and has a very beautiful flavor.

Eating "Lixia" means sending off spring and welcoming summer, and celebrating the spring harvest. At this time of year the new vegetables and fruits, can be added to the "Lixia" in the "Lixia", "Lixia" in the more varieties will indicate the more festive. "Idle winter, busy spring", before the old days do not get enough to eat farmers, in this green time can eat a full meal "Lixia", that is the greatest satisfaction.

Hangzhou to eat rice and rice in the summer

Rice is made of rice leaves (also known as fine green leaves) squeeze juice, glutinous rice in the juice after soaking steamed into rice. It is said that if you eat the rice at the beginning of summer, you will not suffer from heatstroke, you will be able to get rid of wind and poison, and mosquitoes will not dare to bite.

Hangzhou people also eat in the summer "wild summer rice" custom. On this day, the children in groups to the neighboring families begging rice, meat, and then go to the ground to pick broad beans, dig bamboo shoots, and finally to the field to the stone set up pots and stoves, self-burning self-eating, which is known as eating "wild summer rice", or "summer rice".

This custom is to treat themselves as beggars, thinking that this can be averse to victory and avoid disaster. After eating Rixia rice, adults will bring baskets, scales to weigh the children to see how much heavier than last year.