As the topic owner said, there has always been a saying: In ancient summer, people lost their appetite because of the hot weather, and they were often thinner than usual, which was commonly called "bitter summer". Although the summer solstice is not the hottest time in summer, it means that the hot summer has arrived, so people worship God with pasta, hoping to spend the summer healthily, so the summer solstice noodles are also called "sleeping noodles"
Second: Relieve the craving for fresh food and fight against the bitter summer.
The summer solstice coincides with the abundance of wheat, so eating noodles on the summer solstice also means tasting new things. From the point of view of nutrition, around the summer solstice is the time when wheat is harvested and new flour is on the market, and the nutrients in fresh flour are high. In the past, people ate more noodles at this time, on the one hand, to celebrate the bumper harvest, on the other hand, they could also draw rich nutrients from noodles made of new flour with good taste. In addition, symptoms such as stuffy nose, aversion to cold, headache and heavy body weight often appear after catching cold in summer. Cooking a bowl of hot noodles, adding some scallion and pepper, and tasting it while it is hot, has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect. In the bitter summer with poor appetite, you can also eat appetizing pasta to enhance your body's resistance.
Third: the biggest reason is time.
There is a saying that time is the only criterion to test all truths. The custom of eating noodles in summer has been passed down from generation to generation with the passage of time, but it has never stopped. Under the proof of time, it has become a custom. Because of the above two reasons, it has strengthened the search for a custom. Therefore, why do you eat noodles in the summer solstice is a baptism of time in the long river of history. Just like why we celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and New Year's Eve, time has branded them with festivals, just like eating noodles on the summer solstice, so time is the biggest trader and the biggest reason.
Yangchun noodles in the south
On the summer solstice, noodles are generally eaten in all parts of the north, and people in Shandong eat noodles with cold water, commonly known as crossing the water. Eating noodles with soy sauce in the north and Zhajiang Noodles, there are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dry soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, crossing the bridge deck and sesame oil cold noodles.
Let's take a brief look at the practice of southern Yangchun noodles.
List of ingredients:
Dried noodles100g/shallots10g/egg/broth, about 800ml in a bowl.
A little pepper/salt/lard15ml/green vegetable/a tablespoon of soy sauce.
Step 1: prepare a bowl and mix lard, white pepper, shallots, salt and soy sauce. Boil the water in the pot, and boil the dried noodles in the pot.
Step 2: put the broth in the bowl with mixed seasoning, add cold water to the pot, boil it again, pick up the cooked noodles and put them in the bowl with mixed soup.
Step 3: Finally, cook the poached eggs and put them in a bowl. A bowl of delicious Yangchun noodles will start. Eat the poached eggs first.