In the twenty-four seasons of Lixia this festival, there will be a custom of eating Lixia rice, why do we have to eat Lixia rice? This is a what kind of origin, and what is the practice of Lixia rice. It is said that the summer rice color and flavor, let us take a look at the practice of summer rice.

Every summer the day before, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice". The day before the summer, the children asked the neighboring families for a bowl of rice, which they called "Duxia Xiaomi." They dug up some bamboo shoots, "stole" some broad beans, and used some garlic cloves. On the first day of summer, the rice and ingredients in the open air to cook rice, rice on the plums, cherries, etc., distributed to the day before the rice to the family, the first family a small bowl. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.

Summer rice with bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth and other condiments, containing "five grains," meaning that the summer to eat five-color rice, there is a year of good health symbol

Lixia rice practices:

1, glutinous rice washed and drained

2, start the frying pan frying salted meat diced, after the aroma put bamboo shoots diced and peas fried together

3, put a little wine, fried to the material is about five mature, put the washed glutinous rice into the frying together, to the rice yellowish, put the water, the taste of the heavy can be put a little salt

4, large fire boil after the fire to cook for about 40 ~ 50 minutes.

"Crutch" meaning support. Su Shi "test courtyard tea" has "no need to support the intestine on the abdomen text five thousand volumes" sentence. Summer is the beginning of summer, Shengzhou people eat eggs on the day of summer on the heart, eat bamboo shoots on the legs, eat peas on the eyes, weighing people on the body, the purpose is to pray for the body, heart, legs and other important parts of the body, to prevent illness, and successfully through the summer wishes.

In the old days, the countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white polished round-grained rice cooked into the "five-color rice", after the evolution of the Japanese soybean meat boiled glutinous rice, vegetables with amaranth yellow fish soup, said to eat "summer rice. Eggs were boiled in black tea or walnut shells, called "Tachibana eggs," and given to each other. With colorful thread woven egg set, hanging in front of the child's chest, or hanging on the tent. Children on the summer egg play, to the egg shell firm and not broken for the win, the proverb says: "summer chest hanging egg, children are not Resistance Summer."

Resistance and propulsion is common in summer, anorexia, fatigue and lethargy, children are especially susceptible to resistance and propulsion. There are still five-color silk thread for children tied hand rope, called "summer rope". On this day, Ningbo custom to eat "foot bone bamboo shoots", cooked with bamboo shoots, each three or four inches long, not cut open, eat to pick two of the same thickness of the bamboo shoots ate, said to eat can be "foot bone health" (physical health). Then eat soft vegetables (Junta vegetables), said after eating the summer will not have prickly heat, the skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables.

After the summer, it is a hot summer, people eat some food in the summer, often to pray for blessings to protect the wishes of peace. Such as Zhejiang Shengzhou people believe that in the summer day to eat eggs on (meaning "support") heart, eat bamboo shoots on legs, eat peas on eyes; Changsha, Hunan people eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup pills, the name of "Lixia jelly", folk proverb " Eat a summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer to eat a group (pronounced "lump"), a foot across the river", a metaphor for strength, light as a swallow;

Shanghai farmers in the suburbs of the summer with wheat flour and sugar made into inch-long strips of food, known as "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the" and "the". Xu long strip of food, called "wheatworms", people ate, said can be free of "Resistance and Resistance"; Tongshan County, Hubei Province, the folk of the summer as an important festival, the Tongshan people eat bubble (strawberry), shrimp, bamboo shoots, called "eating bubble Bright eyes, eat shrimp, eat bamboo shoots strong foot bone"; southern Fujian region to eat shrimp noodles in the summer, that is, to buy sea shrimp mixed into the noodles cooked, sea shrimp cooked red, for the color of good luck, and shrimp and summer resonance, as a wish for the summer.