1, summer rice
Every summer before the day, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice". Dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans, with a little garlic. On the day of summer, the rice and ingredients will be cooked in the open air, put plums, cherries, etc. on the rice, and send it to the people who gave it to the family a few days ago, and a small bowl for the first family. 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, eat five-color rice in summer, there is a year of good health symbolism.
2, Lixia eggs
Lixia eat Lixia eggs is the custom of the Han people south of the Yangtze River. Every summer, people in the south of the Yangtze River have to eat hard-boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, that eating eggs in the summer can strengthen the body. Lixia eggs are the most classic food on the day of Lixia. The day before the first day of summer, the family began to cook Lixia eggs, usually with tea leaves or walnut shells boiled, watching the egg shells slowly turn red, full of fragrant house. Tea eggs should be eaten while hot, eat a good Shaoxing wine, sprinkled with some fine salt, wine and tea, and fragrant and flavorful.
3, summer porridge
Summer porridge is a traditional snack in Leiyang, Hunan, belonging to the summer festival food. This snack is Leiyang diet a great. Leiyang people have always attached great importance to agricultural and mulberry activities, and are particularly sensitive to the twenty-four solar terms. Each festival will be approaching, people always love through some ritual form of a festival food, intuitive, image to remind each other not to forget farming, not miss the farm, from the food *** enjoy the fun of life. For example, the summer, it is the time of transplanting rice seedlings, hard work, families will boil the summer porridge, to express the good wishes for a good harvest. Summer porridge is made of rice as the main ingredient, accompanied by fine meat, glutinous rice balls, vermicelli, dried bamboo shoots, toon, pork, jujubes, peas, bean sprouts, eggs and other dozen kinds of condiments boiled into. After starting the pot, it is steaming hot and full of fragrance.
Summer porridge practice:
1. Summer health lentil porridge, practice: 250 grams of round-grained rice, 100 grams of white lentils, add the right amount of water, **** cooked into porridge. Lentil porridge has the role of strengthening the spleen and dampness, and the role of summer heat and diarrhea. Suitable for summer heatstroke caused by vomiting and diarrhea, loss of appetite and other conditions.
2. Summer health egg flower porridge, practice: fresh egg flower 10, 60 grams of round-grained rice, add the right amount of water, **** cooked into thin porridge. Egg flower porridge has the role of clearing heat and dampness, detoxification and dryness. This porridge is China's folk medicine and food health food, especially children are more suitable, and on the dampness and heat caused by dysentery red and white, dysentery thick and diarrhea and other diseases have a better therapeutic effect.
3. Summer health Coix seed porridge, practice: 250 grams of round-grained rice, 100 grams of Coix seed, add the right amount of water, **** cooked into porridge. Coix seed porridge has the effect of strengthening the spleen and removing paralysis, diuresis and seepage of dampness. It is suitable for conditions such as loss of appetite, diarrhea, edema and skin warts. What else is the practice of summer porridge?
4. Summer health lily porridge, practice: 50 grams of lily, round-grained rice l00 grams, 80 grams of rock sugar, add the right amount of water, **** cooked into porridge. Lily porridge has a moisturizing lung cough, nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind, nourish Yin and clear the role of heat. Apply to the elderly chronic bronchitis, lung heat or dry lung dry cough, excessive snot and tears, fever recovery, mental trance, restlessness, as well as neurasthenia, tuberculosis, menopausal syndrome and other conditions.