I happened to look through Moments yesterday and realized that today is the beginning of summer.

It feels like spring is not over yet, and summer is coming quietly.

I remember when I was in primary school, every morning on the Beginning of Summer, my grandma would take out the small net bag woven with red thread that she had prepared early, put a hard-boiled egg in the net bag, and hang it on the They were hung around my and my cousin’s necks and we were asked to take them to school. In fact, on the way to school, my cousin and I secretly ate the eggs and smiled at each other, knowing tacitly that we should keep it a secret and not tell grandma.

At that time, I thought my grandma was doing this for fun, but later I learned that the custom of "eating eggs at the beginning of summer" has been around for a long time.

As the saying goes: "If you eat eggs in the Beginning of Summer, the hot weather will not make summer hot." It is said that from the day of Beginning of Summer, the weather becomes warm and sunny and gradually becomes hotter. Many people, especially children, will suffer from physical fatigue and weakness of limbs. It feels like loss of appetite and gradual weight loss, which is called "Xia Xia". Empress Nuwa told the people that on the day of the Beginning of Summer every year, boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs should be hung on the chests of children to avoid summer heat. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs in the Beginning of Summer continues to this day.

Nowadays, the small red net bags around children's necks are no longer common, but the traditional custom of eating eggs in the Beginning of Summer is still retained in many places.

Eggs are round and round, symbolizing a complete life. Eating eggs at the beginning of summer can pray for a safe summer. Eating eggs at the beginning of summer is the most nourishing. Eggs are neutral in nature, tonify qi deficiency, and have the function of calming the mind and nourishing the heart. Eating one egg is equivalent to To eat a chicken.

In fact, leaving aside whether the use of shapes to complement shapes has any effect, the purpose of maintaining such a custom of lunar solar terms is to pray for good health, prevent illness in summer, and bring more to people. Good luck and good wishes to spend the hot summer smoothly.

Maybe it’s because I ate too many hard-boiled eggs when I was a kid. When I grow up, I usually add black tea and various spices when boiling eggs to make tea eggs with a richer and more delicious texture.

It is best to use black tea for making tea eggs, because black tea is rich in fragrance but not bitter, and has a bright color. The boiled eggs have a good aroma, uniform color and excellent appearance. Tea eggs cooked with green tea have a slightly bitter taste. The combination of theophylline and the iron in the eggs will cause certain irritation to the stomach, which is more detrimental to people with colds, fever and gastrointestinal diseases.

I remember Mr. Wang Zengqi once said: "Too many tea leaves are left for boiling tea eggs." In fact, this is what a true foodie should do. Of course, you can also have one: West Lake Longjing tea eggs, Yunnan Pu'er tea eggs, Fuzhou Jasmine tea eggs, Suzhou Biluochun tea eggs, Anxi Tieguanyin tea eggs, Keemun black tea eggs, Lapsang souchong tea eggs, it is said that the collection Together these seven tea eggs can summon the dragon! < /p>

Method:

1. It is best to keep the eggs at room temperature, clean them, put clean water in the pot, put the eggs into the pot with cold water, the water should cover the eggs, and cook over medium-low heat for about 5 minutes. Turn off the heat.

2. Rinse the hard-boiled eggs with cold water. When the eggs are no longer hot, use a spoon to gently crack the eggshells. Be sure to do it gently, so that the eggshells are broken and not broken. Status ha.

3. Boil a pot of water again, put all the accessories except the black tea bags into the pot, boil over high heat for two or three minutes, add the black tea bags, or other black tea you like. Cook for another two or three minutes, add the eggs, be sure to let the soup completely cover the eggs.

4. Cook over medium-low heat for about 5 minutes, then turn off the heat and soak the eggs. It is recommended to soak it overnight to make the tea egg more flavorful. At this time, it is already a beautiful tea egg.

Tips:

1. The eggs can also be boiled in the soup for a while, so that the texture of the boiled eggs will be firmer.

2. In fact, I also added braised beef tendon core to the soup. I think you will understand the taste without me saying more.