Introduction: Hot summer is a good time for people to look for cold food. We don't know much about the traditional foods of summer festivals, except that we should eat cold vegetables such as lotus roots and cucumbers. So what traditional foods must be eaten in summer festivals? What kind of custom food does Xiao Xia eat? If you want to know, please check with me.

1, eat lotus root in summer

Lotus root is a kind of health food with both medicine and food, and it is rich in nutrition. There is also a beautiful meaning of removing mud and not dyeing. Eating lotus root also has the function of relieving summer heat, and there is a custom of eating lotus root in summer in the south of the Yangtze River.

2. Eat new rice in summer

In Guangzhou, Fujian, Jiangxi and other areas, there is a folk custom of eating new rice in summer, and making newly cut rice into rice to worship the five grain gods and ancestors.

3. Eat eel in summer.

Monopterus albus is a very delicious food, and it is the most delicious in summer. There is a custom of eating Monopterus albus in summer in coastal areas, and eating Monopterus albus in summer has excellent nourishing effect.

4. Eat fruit in summer

In hot summer, water is badly needed. Therefore, some fruits with sufficient moisture are especially suitable for eating before and after high temperature in summer. For example, watermelons and tomatoes are particularly suitable choices. These two kinds of fruits can be peeled and seeded, mixed together and squeezed into juice for drinking. Watermelon is a particularly good fruit to relieve summer heat and replenish water. There is a famous prescription called "White Tiger Decoction" in Chinese medicine, and watermelon has the reputation of "Natural White Tiger Decoction" because it has the same effect. Tomatoes can produce fluid to quench thirst, and have a good effect on heat diseases such as thirst, irritability and indigestion in summer.

5, eat three treasures in summer

"Small summer heat, steaming and cooking", the arrival of small summer heat means that it is about to enter the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, the human body sweats a lot and consumes a lot. Health care must pay attention to supplement physical strength, reduce fever and prevent heatstroke. At this time of year, people have the custom of eating three treasures-Monopterus albus, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts.

6. Eat noodles in summer

You can also eat fried noodles on the water in dog days. The so-called fried noodles are cooked with flour in a pot, and then mixed with water and sugar. This way of eating was quite common in the Han Dynasty in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but at that time, Su Gong, a Tang Dynasty physician who cooked wheat first and then ground pasta, said that fried noodles could clear away heat and stop diarrhea.

7. Eat mutton in summer

The custom of eating mutton in Xuzhou can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a saying among the people: Pengcheng has a bowl of mutton soup, and you don't need a doctor to prescribe it. Xuzhou people love to eat Fuyang, which is nothing more than a local folk song: pick up girls on June 6 and make mutton soup with new wheat cakes. The custom of eating noodles in Fukui began at least in the Three Kingdoms period. Wei Chunqiu: Wipe your sweat with a towel when you are in the sun. Jiao Ran, the soup cakes here are hot noodles. Jingchu wrote in his old age: Eating soup cakes in June is evil. May is an evil month, and June should also be evil.

8. Eat black snapper in summer

The light summer season is the second stage of rice seedling raising in Taiwan Province Province, at which time the first stage of rice has matured, and it is also the rich period of towel gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber and wax gourd. The waters around Taiwan Province Province belong to warm water area, which is also the gathering period of warm water fish. The northern coast of Keelung has caught silver carp, and black snapper can also be caught in fresh water area.

What are the summer customs?

1 fast

The fasting day of Miao people in western Hunan is from the day before the summer heat to the day after the summer heat every year. During this period, chickens, ducks, fish, turtles, crabs and other things were fasted. It is said that eating by mistake will bring disaster, but you can still eat pigs, cows and mutton.

2. Lick the cows in the summer

In Linyi, Shandong Province, people have the custom of improving the eating habits of cattle every summer. Furi cooks barley soup for cows. It is said that cows are strong and can work without sweating. "Bullwhip in spring, lick Han Niu (bull), barley soup, lick beef rice, lick cattle without sweating, and stay up until June."

3. The city freezes

Ice is cold in nature, storing meat, fish, eggs, fruits and so on. Using ice cubes in midsummer can inhibit the activity of microorganisms and keep them fresh and clean for a long time. But at this time, it is not appropriate to eat more, because the nature of ice is contrary to the hot climate at this time, and cold and heat meet, which is most likely to lead to disease. There is a saying in the cookbook: "If you use ice in summer, you can only hide your diet, which will make your breath cool and make you inedible. Although it was very fast at the time, it became sick after a long time. " Women should pay special attention not to eat more cold ice. Our people discovered ice for storing ice long ago. "Zhou Li" contains: "Lingren catches the ice, and beginning of spring governs it." A sword is a container, about the size of Zhen. Put ice cubes in the sword mouth and store food in the sword, just like the refrigerator now, which can refrigerate food.