1, eggs

Eggs in the summer, not only can withstand the "Resistance and Resistance" test, but also bring success in life. Summer has the custom of eating eggs, can prevent the common summer day lack of appetite, tiredness, limb weakness, emaciation and other bitter summer symptoms. Eggs, flat, fill the gas deficiency, have the function of tranquilizing the spirit and nourishing the heart.

2, summer tea

In order to meet the summer, China's Jiangxi area there is the custom of summer tea, said not to drink tea, will be a summer of suffering, in the summer of the day, the women to gather seven families of tea, *** with the cooking and drinking, said that the summer drinking seven tea, you can ensure that the whole summer will not be sleepy.

3, Lixia jelly

Lixia day to eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup pills, the name "Lixia jelly". As the saying goes, "eat a summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer eat a group (sound tuo), a foot across the river". Before and after the summer often have a gale, the name "Dragon King Storm". Summer day hair east wind, commonly thought to have flooding, the proverb said "summer east wind and rain ripples". Summer day thunder, the future will be more thunderstorms, the proverb said "thunder hit the summer, three days to a".

4, Wu rice

Wu rice to take Wu rice leaves (also known as fine green leaves) squeeze juice dip glutinous rice steamed rice. It is said that the summer to eat rice, not propulsion and resistance to summer, can dispel the wind and poison, U mosquitoes do not dare to bite.

5, black rice cake

Black rice cake is also one of Ningbo's traditional summer snacks, is the Ushu leaves pounded soaking water, soak glutinous rice with Ushu leaf juice to make it black coloring, and then soak the black glutinous rice with sugar steamed and hand-pressed into glutinous rice cake, eat a light Ushu leaf flavor.

6, three fresh

The summer taste of three fresh, also known as "summer to eat three fresh" or "summer to see three new". Sanxian is generally divided into "ground Sanxian", "tree Sanxian" and "water Sanxian". Ground three fresh that is, broad beans, amaranth, cucumber (a said amaranth, broad beans, garlic mustard). Tree three fresh cherries, loquats, apricots (said to be plums, apricots, cherries). Water three fresh namely conch, puffer fish, anchovies (a said anchovies, pomfret, yellowtail).

7, seven porridge

East Zhejiang rural summer has eaten "seven porridge" custom, that is, farming family neighbors give each other beans, rice, and to yellow sugar, cooked into a pot of porridge, called "seven porridge", said to eat this porridge, neighbors and harmony, a heart to go to summer cultivation. harmony, a mind to go to the summer plowing and summer planting.

8, summer rice

In the old days, the summer festival, Ningbo countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice boiled into "five-color rice", called the summer rice. Now some families in Ningbo city and countryside still retain this ancient style, but the material of the summer rice changed to another five kinds of food: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, plus soy sauce or salted meat, called five kinds of rice.

9, noodles

China's northern wheat planting, summer is the wheat on the field season, so most of the northern regions of the summer when the production and consumption of pasta custom, intended to celebrate the wheat harvest. Summer pasta mainly summer cakes, cakes and spring rolls three.

10, fava beans

The southern belt like to eat beans in the summer, so fava beans are also known as summer beans, many people will also be fava beans and rice in a pot to cook, known as "fava beans rice". Fava beans have the effect of benefiting qi, spleen, dampness and swelling, especially suitable for summer heat and dampness heavy summer food. Young broad beans can be cooked and eaten directly, the old broad beans can be used to cook rice, porridge.

11, Jun Tap vegetable

Ningbo people have eaten Jun Tap vegetable tradition in the summer, Jun Tap vegetable is listed before and after the summer of a seasonal vegetable, it is said to eat Jun Tap vegetable after the summer will not give birth to prickly heat, the skin will be like Jun Tap as smooth.

12, wheatworms

Li Xia Festival, Shanghai suburban farmers to take wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strip of food, called wheatworms, people eat, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance to Summer". 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. Also sugar plums, wine, salted eggs, etc. as seasonal food, known as seasonal, take to taste mouth, said taste "three new".

13, foot bone bamboo shoots

Lixia, have eaten "foot bone bamboo shoots" custom. "Foot bone bamboo shoots" is actually wild bamboo shoots, wild bamboo shoots have many kinds, like bamboo shoots, arrow shoots belong to the wild bamboo shoots, people buy bamboo shoots after shelling shot cracked into a flat shape, and then cut into 4 centimeters or so of the small section, looks like the shape of the foot bone. The summer solstice, the beginning of agricultural work, we eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" to symbolize "foot bone health" (health).

14, peas

Some areas of China, the day of summer to eat peas and rice. Because the shelled peas shaped like eyes, and the ancients eye disease is common, people in order to eliminate eye disease, to eat peas to pray for a year of eyes as clear as fresh peas, disease-free. Each 100 grams of peas contain vitamin B10.49 mg, is three times as much as the beans. Sweating in the heat of the day will lose some of the B vitamins, so peas are very suitable for summer consumption.

15, cherry

Suzhou people have a summer "see three fresh" custom, in which the earliest fruit on the market in the cherry is "a fresh". Legend has it that when Kangxi arrived in Nanjing on his fifth southern tour, Cao Yin, the weaver of Jiangning, paid tribute to the cherries produced by the Cherry Island of Xuanwu Lake at that time, and Kangxi was very happy to see it, and said, "the first exhaustive Empress Dowager, I will then use it", and then sent an official to send the cherries to Beijing. Cherry is a seasonal fruit in the summer. In the fruit family, generally lower iron content, cherries are outstanding, a unique; vitamin A content than grapes, apples, oranges 4 - 5 times more.