1, noodles: summer season, it is the wheat season, the old Beijing preaching eating noodles, intended to celebrate the wheat harvest. It is said that the custom of eating noodles at the beginning of summer originated in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, eating noodles is to commemorate the northern wheat harvest after the celebration of tasting the new, but also implies that the coming year, the wind and rain, a good harvest. There is a saying: summer noodles new to the sky. It implies that eating noodles in the summer can strengthen the body and bring good luck to people.
2, summer cake: the summer of pasta mainly summer cake, cake and spring rolls three. Summer cake, also known as hemp cake, different shapes, a scholar riding a horse, the Goddess of Mercy, the monkey holding a peach, etc., more modern oyster cake instead. Summer cakes are often used for mothers to give to their married daughters. Eat summer cake in the summer, there is not sick summer, not thin summer said.
3, spring rolls: spring rolls are divided into two parts of the cake and vegetables, rolled vegetables of the cake must be freshly made hot flour pancakes, pay attention to the round, thin, slippery. Rolled out the cake must be gently smeared with a layer of oil on top, in order to not let the cake and the cake between the adhesion, while eating the texture is also more smooth, with the rolled inside the squeaky vegetables, a soft a hard, first-class taste.
4,扒糕:另外，老北京人立夏时还要吃扒糕. Pake is very simple to do, in fact, is made with buckwheat noodles. Cold in the summer, winter can be fried in oil to eat, accompanied by pickled carrots, garlic, chili oil, there is a mixture of sesame paste, mustard sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, etc. thickened sauce, eat up very delicious.
5, summer rice: every summer before the day, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice. Dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans, with a little garlic. On the first day of summer, the rice and ingredients in the pocket of the rice cooked in the open air, rice on the plums, cherries, etc., distributed to the people who gave the rice a few days ago, the first family a small bowl. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.
6, Lixia eggs: Han Chinese custom south of the Yangtze River. Every summer, people have to eat hard-boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, that the summer to eat eggs 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 boiled, 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.
7, Lixia porridge: Lixia porridge is a traditional snack in Leiyang, Hunan, belonging to the Lixia Festival food. This snack is Leiyang diet a great. Leiyang people have always attached importance to agricultural and mulberry activities, especially sensitive to the twenty-four solar terms. For example, in the summer, it is the time of transplanting rice seedlings, farmers do hard work, each family will boil the summer porridge, to express the good wishes for a good harvest. Summer congee is made of rice as the main ingredient, accompanied by refined meat, glutinous rice balls, vermicelli, dried bamboo shoots, toon, pig's mash, jujubes, peas, bean sprouts, eggs and other dozen kinds of condiments boiled.
8, umi rice: umi rice was originally a Chinese folk festival food, the Tang Dynasty that is. Jiangsu and Anhui area on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, there are many people with rice tree leaves cooked rice, has become a custom.
9, wheatworms: green wheat group that is green wheatworms, Tongdong language known as cold chen, belonging to the sandy people in today's Haimen City, Jiangsu Province, and Qidong City, the traditional snacks. Today, this snack is not common, do less and less people. In the old days. Farmers generally live in hardship, every time to the "gods sad" between February and March. The family's food is almost eaten up, so the field of green wheat ears cut home, rubbing down the green wheat seeds by hand, blowing off the shells, and then frying in the pot cooked pot. The hulls were removed again because they could not be removed all at once. After frying in a pot, use a stone mill to grind the wheat grain into fine wheat strips while it is still hot. Because it looks like a young silkworm, the sand people call it a wheat worm.
10, foot bone bamboo shoots: summer season, Ningbo people love to eat foot bone bamboo shoots, this slender wild bamboo shoots, is a symbol of hope and health. Ningbo people called "foot bone bamboo shoots", Fenghua people called mother bamboo shoots, is a kind of wild mountain bamboo shoots, the flavor is particularly good.