One of the classic summer food: summer eggs
Although the traditional food customs on the day of the summer across the country have their own characteristics, but when it comes to the day of the summer is the most classic food is the "summer eggs". The day before the summer, many people began to cook "summer eggs" at home, usually with tea leaves or walnut shells cooked, watching the eggshells slowly turn red, full of fragrant house. Tea eggs should be eaten while hot, eat a good pouring wine, sprinkle some fine salt, wine and tea, and fragrant and flavorful.
In addition to eating eggs, there is another way to play. Boiled eggs, pick out the whole unbroken, with colorful thread woven into the egg set, hanging on the child's chest, or hanging on the tent. Children also want to lean on the summer egg (that is, touch the egg), that is the most happy and exciting thing this day, leaning on the egg to the egg shell firm and not broken for the win. Summer why eat "summer eggs" it? The custom of "eating eggs in summer" has a long history. As the saying goes: "Eat the egg in the summer, hot days are not resistance to summer." According to legend, from the day of the first day of summer, the weather is sunny and gradually hot, many people, especially children, will have the feeling of physical fatigue and weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite and gradual loss of weight, which is called "Resistance and Propulsion". Mother Nuwa told the people, every year on the day of summer, children's chest hung on the boiled eggs of chickens, ducks and geese, can be avoided Resistance to summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs at the summer festival has continued until now.
The ancients believed that the egg round, round, symbolizing the success of life, eat eggs on the day of summer can pray for the peace of summer, the test of "resistance to summer". Summer generally in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, "April eggs as cheap as vegetables", people put the eggs into the leftover "seven tea" boiled and burned into the "tea eggs". Later, people improved the cooking method, in the "seven tea" in the addition of fennel, meat brine, cinnamon, ginger, from now on, tea eggs is no longer a summer festival food, and become one of China's traditional snacks.
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Two, summer "weighing people" customs
Ancient poetry: "summer weighing people light weight number, the scale hanging on the beam laughs noisy girl." The summer of the "weighing" custom is mainly popular in the south of China, originated in the Three Kingdoms era: legend has it that after the death of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang sent his son Ah Dou to Zhao Zi Long to Jiangdong, and asked his mother, has returned to her mother's home, Mrs. Wu Sun to raise. That day was the beginning of summer, Mrs. Sun in front of Zhao ZiLong gave Adou weighing, the next year, the beginning of summer weighing again to see how much weight increase, and then write to Zhuge Liang, thus forming the folk custom. It is said that after weighing on this day, you will not be afraid of the summer heat and will not lose weight, otherwise you will be sick. After eating the summer meal, hang a big scale on the beam, adults pull the hook with both hands, two feet hanging weight; children sitting in baskets or four feet to the sky on the stool, hanging on the hook weighing, said summer scale can be free of Resistance and Resistance to summer. If the weight increases, called "Fafu", weight loss, said "eliminate meat". On this day, children should not sit on the stone steps; if they do, they should sit on the seven roots, so that all diseases can be dispersed. The medical device against medical devices against sitting on the floor (threshold) means that the medical device against medical devices on this day will secure a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device in the summer, and if a medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device against a high-grade medical device. In the olden days, a mother would choose this day to wear the ears of a girl, while coaxing the child to eat a tea egg, and when the child opens his mouth to bite the egg, he would be put through with a needle. There are also cats who wear ears and red headbands for domesticated cats. As early as in ancient times, kings also often in the initial days of summer, to go outside the city to welcome the summer, to welcome the summer day is the day of the summer.
Three, around the summer dietary customs at a glance
What to eat in the summer in different parts of China has a different answer, different regions have different food cultures, the following with the editorial take a look at what to eat in the summer all over China ~ ~ ~ ~
Shanghai region, what to eat in the summer?
Summer Festival, Shanghai farmers in suburban counties to take wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strips of food, called wheatworms, people eat, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance". With the summer of green grass and into the rice flour, fried into a cake, called "stall rice", for the people of Shanghai and the Pudong area people like to eat. Sugar plums, wine, salted eggs, etc. as seasonal food, known as seasonal food, take to taste the mouth, said taste "three new".
Other places "what to eat in the summer" related customs:
1. Wuxi folk traditionally tasted three fresh customs in the summer
Three fresh points of the ground three fresh, tree three fresh, water three fresh. Ground three fresh beans, amaranth, cucumber (said amaranth, yuan wheat, beans, also said amaranth, beans, garlic); tree three fresh cherries, loquats, apricots (a said plums, apricots, cherries, also said plums, cherries, toon head); water three fresh sea snails, dolphins, anchovies (said anchovies, pomfrets, yellowtail, but also said anchovies, silverfish, crabs fish). Among them to taste the ground three fresh is the most common. Some places also have the custom of eating moldy tofu in summer, saying that eating moldy tofu will not be bad luck.