1, long summer rice

In the old days of long summer, five-color rice was cooked with five-color beans and japonica rice in rural areas around Ningbo, also known as long summer rice. With the improvement of living standards and rich materials, many families in the south use peas, thunder shoots, broad beans, amaranth, diced mushrooms, diced bacon, carrots and other ingredients instead of five-color beans, which means "five grains are abundant" and is quite ceremonial. As the saying goes, "a thousand supplements are not as good as a long summer supplement." Eating long summer rice also sends a message that people want to be healthy all year round.

2, long summer eggs

Eating eggs in long summer is a custom in Jiangnan area. On this day, people cook long summer eggs with tea leaves or walnut shells. People think that eating eggs in the long summer can strengthen the body. Children like to weave boiled eggs with colorful ropes and hang them on their chests. It is said that this can protect children from the summer heat.

3. Long summer tea

Long summer tea, also called Qijia tea, is the custom of long summer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. On the day of long summer, when new tea comes on the market, women will collect seven kinds of tea and cook them together, saying that drinking long summer tea can prevent the onset of summer and make you spend the summer healthily and safely.

4, long summer porridge

In the long summer season, every household in Leiyang, Hunan Province has to cook long summer porridge. Long summer porridge is made of more than ten kinds of ingredients such as lean meat, vermicelli, glutinous rice balls, red dates, pig viscera, dried bamboo shoots, red dates, peas and bean sprouts. Add rice and cook it into delicious porridge.

5, long summer fruit

Chang Xia Guo, also known as Chang Xia _, is a special food with long summer solar terms in Yiyang, Jiangxi. On the day of long summer, every household will cook a big pot for long summer and eat it all day. Long summer _ is cooked with rice and kneaded into small dumplings. Add bean sprouts, dried beans, dried shrimps and peas to make "long summer soup", also called long summer soup. According to legend, eating long summer is to send spring to welcome summer. The more varieties, the richer the spring harvest and the more festive it is.

6, foot bone bamboo shoots

Eating bamboo shoots on your feet in the long summer is a unique custom in Ningbo. Foot bone bamboo shoots are actually black bamboo shoots on the mountain. It is thin and long, and looks like a foot bone. When cooked, cut it into three or four centimeters long without cutting it open. It is said that Chang Xia ate a foot bone bamboo shoot, and the foot bone was healthy for a year.

7. Taste three kinds of food

Wuxi folks have always had the custom of tasting three delicacies in the long summer. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: fresh ground, fresh trees and fresh water. Radix Rehmanniae refers to cucumber, amaranth and broad bean; Three fresh trees refer to cherries, loquats and apricots; Sanxian refers to snails, shad and puffer fish.

8, see three new

Similar to Wuxi's folk custom of eating in the long summer, Suzhou has a saying that "seeing three new things in the long summer". Sanxin refers to cherry, wheat and plum. People use Sanxin to worship their ancestors first, and then eat it themselves.

9. Qijiazhou

Changxia, a rural area in Zhejiang, wants to eat "seven porridge". Seven porridge is a big pot of porridge made of rice collected by neighbors, mixed with various beans and brown sugar, and then shared with everyone.

10, wheat silkworm

Green wheat silkworm, also known as green wheat group, is a seasonal food in the suburbs of Shanghai and Qidong and Haimen, Jiangsu Province. Crushing immature green wheat ears, frying wheat grains with shells in a pot, removing shells, and grinding into powder in a stone mill. Together with sugar, they are made into strips as long as baby silkworms, so they are called wheat silkworms.

What food do you eat in the long summer of the 24 solar terms?

1 duck egg

This is naturally the first push. Long summer is laying eggs, that is, laying duck eggs. Duck eggs are as nutritious as eggs. Chinese medicine believes that duck eggs are sweet and cool, and have the function of nourishing yin and clearing lung, and enter the lung and spleen meridians; Has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, moistening lung and beautifying skin. It is suitable for patients with physical weakness, dry and hot cough, dry throat and sore throat, hypertension, diarrhea and dysentery after illness. Used for diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat and toothache. Modern medical research shows that the content of protein in duck eggs is equivalent to that of eggs, but the total mineral content is far superior to that of eggs, especially the content of iron and calcium is extremely rich, which can prevent anemia and promote bone development.

2. Lettuce; lettuce

Herbal Yi Yan refers to its "four orientations". Late spring and early summer are the season for eating lettuce. Lu You's Poem of New Cuisine in Song Dynasty said: "Cucumber and lettuce are the most suitable, and will be listed in April."

Chinese medicine believes that lettuce is beneficial to the five internal organs, dredging meridians and opening the chest and diaphragm. Plant qi, strengthen bones and muscles, remove bad breath, whiten teeth and brighten eyes. And lactagogue's role. Diuretic excretion, relieving insect poison and snake bite poison. Not only that, anyone with weak body, yin deficiency, frequent bleeding between teeth or dry nose is prone to nosebleeds. Lettuce stem slices can be cooked and mixed with soy sauce or salt to treat and reduce bleeding. But it is worth noting that frequent consumption makes people's eyes blurred. People who have a cold should not eat it. Lettuce is poisonous and harmful to people, and all kinds of bugs dare not go in.

3. Poria cocos

Poria cocos contains pachyman, glucose, protein, amino acids, organic acids, fat, lecithin, adenine, choline, ergosterol, various enzymes and potassium salt. It can enhance the immune function of the body, and pachyman has obvious anti-tumor effect; It has diuretic effect and can increase the excretion of electrolytes such as potassium, sodium and chlorine in urine; Has the effects of calming, protecting liver, inhibiting ulcer, lowering blood sugar and resisting radiation. The ancients called Poria cocos a "four-season medicine" because Poria cocos has a wide range of effects, regardless of the four seasons. When it is combined with various drugs, it can exert its unique efficacy regardless of cold and heat and rheumatism. Modern medical research: Poria cocos can enhance the immune function of the body, and Poria cocos polysaccharide has obvious anti-tumor and liver protection effects.

4. Wheat

Wheat is rich in starch, protein, fat, minerals, calcium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid and vitamin A, etc. The main components of wheat are carbohydrate, fat, protein, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and nicotinic acid, and there is also an allantoin component. In addition, wheat germ is rich in dietary fiber and vitamin E, as well as a small amount of arginine, amylase, sitosterol, lecithin and proteolytic enzymes in the heart. Wheat has the effect of nourishing the heart and is suitable for heart disease patients. Boiling soup can cure gonorrhea. Grinding into powder can kill ascaris, and boiling old wheat into soup can also stop sweating. Burning it to ashes and blending it with oil can cure all kinds of sores and burns in local records.

5, bitter gourd

After summer, when the weather is hot, there will naturally be the possibility of getting angry, so eating more bitter gourd at this time can prevent getting angry. Bitter gourd tastes bitter, cold when it is born and warm when it is cooked. Raw food can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and purge fire, and clear away heat and trouble; Cooked food can nourish blood and liver, moisten spleen and kidney, clear away heat and relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, and benefit qi and strengthen yang. But eat bitter gourd should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lungs.

Although the weather is hot in summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to mix it with spicy food (such as pepper, pepper, onion and garlic), so as to avoid bitterness and help to replenish lung qi. If you don't like bitterness, you can make it painless by cooking. The best way to eat bitter gourd is cold salad. Cold salad can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter gourd. If stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in the process of stir-frying, and the content of oil after stir-frying is relatively high, so people will consume more oil after eating, which cannot play a role in reducing fire.

6, pig heart

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the zang-fu organs are used to replenish the zang-fu organs" and "the heart is used to replenish the heart". Pig heart can nourish the heart and treat palpitation, heartbeat and palpitation. According to modern nutritional analysis, pig heart is a kind of nutritious food. It contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and nicotinic acid.

Fresh pig heart plays a great role in strengthening myocardial nutrition and enhancing myocardial contractility. Clinical data show that many heart diseases are closely related to the normal activity of myocardium. Therefore, although pig heart can not completely improve organic heart disease, it can strengthen and nourish myocardium, which is conducive to the recovery of functional or neurological heart disease.

7. Lotus seeds

Lotus seeds are distributed in the northern and southern provinces of China. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stopping leukorrhagia, tonifying kidney, astringing essence, nourishing heart and tranquilizing mind. Commonly used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, increased leucorrhea and nocturnal emission palpitation and insomnia. Lotus seeds are good for the heart. Regular consumption can make people full of energy and become cheerful. Lotus seed core tea can dispel heart fire, treat symptoms such as upset, and even relieve depression caused by lovelorn. This is a very useful nourishing food. Summer is the season of labor, so eat lotus seeds. Lotus seeds are commonly known as lotus seeds to nourish the heart. Therefore, you can choose to eat more lotus seeds in summer. However, it should be noted that eating too much lotus seeds can easily cause stomach symptoms such as bloating and belching. For patients with chronic stomach diseases, eating lotus seeds is more likely to cause stomach discomfort, and it is recommended that patients with chronic stomach diseases eat with caution.

8.mung beans

Mung beans are cool and sweet, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis and moistening skin, as well as expelling lead poisoning. Because mung bean powder contains a lot of protein and B vitamins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, it has the effects of whitening, removing spots, cleaning skin, exfoliating and inhibiting acne. Mung beans are rich in protein, and raw green soybean milk soaked in raw mung beans has a high protein content, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa if taken orally. Mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form a precipitate, which reduces or loses toxicity and is not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract.

Moreover, mung beans can improve dry skin. The unique moisturizing ingredients and minerals of mung beans provide sufficient moisture for the skin, effectively enhancing the moisture moisturizing ability of the skin. Natural polysaccharide forms a transparent and elastic moisturizing film on the skin surface, which makes the skin moist and elastic. Mung beans suggest eating mung bean sprouts or drinking mung bean soup, both of which are good choices. The former can clear away poison, while the latter can relieve summer heat.

9. Xiaomi

Millet enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, which has the function of invigorating spleen and stomach. The porridge oil when cooking millet porridge has the effects of protecting gastric mucosa and tonifying spleen and stomach, which is most suitable for patients with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer. The nourishing effect of new rice is better. Chinese medicine believes that "the spleen is full of evil in four seasons", that is, people with strong spleen and stomach functions have strong resistance and are not easy to get sick. Children with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are particularly prone to catch a cold, which is characterized by sallow complexion, "blue veins" on the bridge of the nose, emaciation, loss of appetite, restless sleep and frequent diarrhea.

Summer diet should be light, rich in protein, vitamins, trace elements and digestible food, do not eat too greasy barbecue fried food. Cooking takes the form of soup, porridge, soup, cake, etc., which is convenient for digestion and absorption by the spleen and stomach. Long summer is coming, and millet porridge is also good.

10, lotus root

Lotus root has high nutritional value and is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium. It is also rich in protein, vitamins and starch, and has obvious effects of invigorating qi and blood and enhancing human immunity. Therefore, Chinese medicine calls it: "the Lord nourishes the spirit, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency."

Lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in human body, cholesterol and triglyceride in food, so that it can be excreted from feces, thus reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root gives off a unique fragrance, and also contains tannin, which has certain functions of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of people with poor appetite. When summer comes, I lose my appetite. It's good to eat some lotus roots.