Long summer porridge is a traditional Han snack in Leiyang, Hunan. It belongs to the folk food of the long summer solar terms and has long been a must for Leiyang diet. Long summer is the season of transplanting rice seedlings, and farming is very hard, so every household cooks long summer porridge to express their good wishes for a bumper harvest.
According to historical records, the custom of cooking long summer porridge began in Leiyang, Hunan Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Cooking long summer porridge pays attention to digging a pit on the spot at the end of the village street, installing a large iron pot, igniting porridge, and letting the smoke curl up, which is a veritable picnic.
The common ingredients of long summer porridge are rice tofu, glutinous rice balls, oily tofu, bamboo shoots, Toona sinensis seeds, peas, quail eggs, lean meat, pig offal and so on. Other wild vegetables, cold dishes and wine and meat have been added in recent years. In the long summer, Leiyang people like to sit around and talk about their families and make jokes. All participants must drink a bowl of long summer porridge to get lucky, get rid of diseases and disasters, and deepen the feelings between neighbors.
Several Common Long Summer Bridges
1, long summer healthy bean porridge
250 grams of japonica rice, white lentils 100 grams, and appropriate amount of water to cook porridge. Bean porridge has the functions of invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, harmonizing middle warmer, relieving summer heat and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for vomiting, diarrhea and anorexia caused by heatstroke in summer.
2, long summer health egg porridge
10 fresh frangipani, 60 grams of japonica rice, add appropriate amount of water, and cook into porridge. Eggplant porridge has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and moistening dryness. This porridge is a kind of health food with dual functions of medicine and food in China, especially suitable for children, and has good curative effect on dysentery, red and white dysentery and damp-heat diarrhea.
3, long summer health glutinous rice porridge
250g of japonica rice, coix seed100g, and appropriate amount of water to cook porridge. Coix seed porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen, removing arthralgia, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness. Suitable for anorexia, diarrhea, edema and skin verruca plana.
4, long summer health lily porridge
50g of lily, 0/00g of japonica rice/kloc-0, 80g of rock sugar and a proper amount of water are boiled into porridge. Lily porridge has the functions of moistening lung and relieving cough, nourishing heart and calming nerves, nourishing yin and clearing heat. It is suitable for senile chronic tracheitis, lung heat or lung dryness, dry cough, watery eyes, residual heat during fever recovery, mental trance, restlessness, neurasthenia, tuberculosis, climacteric syndrome and other diseases.