The time was fast, and it was not long before the beginning of spring. The beginning of the summer is generally the new year of the year. May 5 or May 6. The customs of starting summer in each region are also different. What are we going to eat during the summer in all parts of China? Xiao Bian took everyone to browse through the customs of Xixia in different parts of China.
First, Lixia Classic Food: State Eggs
Although the traditional food customs of the country throughout the country on this day have their own characteristics, the most classic food on the day of the beginning of the summer is the “Summer Eggâ€. On the day before the beginning of summer, many people began cooking boiled eggs at home. They usually boiled with tea leaves or walnut shells. They watched the eggshell slowly turn red, and the house smelled. Eggs should be eaten hot and fresh. When you eat, you should pour good wine. Sprinkle a little fine salt, wine, fragrant and tasty.
In addition to eating eggs, there are other ways to play. Cooked eggs, pick out the whole unbroken, woven into egg sleeves with colored threads, hanging on the child's chest, or hung on the account. The children also have to stand up for summer eggs (that is, touch eggs). It is the happiest and most exciting thing on this day. The quail eggs are not broken with a strong egg shell. Why did you have to eat “Lingxiaxia Egg†in the beginning of the summer? The custom of “eat eggs early in the summer†has been a long time ago. As the saying goes: "Everything eats eggs in the beginning of the summer, and the hot weather does not affect the summer." According to legend, from the day of the beginning of summer, the weather is warm and gradually hot, and many people, especially children, have the feeling of physical fatigue and weakness, and loss of appetite gradually becomes thin. Call it "Summer Summer." Nu Wa Nunneng told the people that on the day of the beginning of summer each year, children's chests were cooked with chicken, duck, and goose eggs to prevent the summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs at the beginning of the summer season continues until now.
The ancients believed that the eggs were round and round, symbolizing the fulfillment of life, and that eating eggs in the summer could pray for the peace of the summer and endure the test of “worst summerâ€. Li summer is usually in April in the lunar calendar. “April eggs are like vegetables.†People put eggs into the “seven teas†leftover to cook and become “tea eggsâ€. Later, people improved the cooking method. In the “seven teasâ€, fennel, meat brine, cinnamon and ginger were added. From then on, tea eggs were no longer the food of the beginning of the summer, and they became one of the traditional snacks in China.
II. List of Dietary Customs in Various Places during Summer
What to eat in the beginning of summer has different answers in different parts of the country. Different regions have different food cultures. Let's take a look at Xiao Xia together to see what it's like to eat in different parts of China. ~~~
1. Wuxi has always had the custom of setting up a summer to taste
San Sanfen San San, San San, San San Xian. Three fresh vegetables, namely broad beans, leeks, and cucumbers (one said to be leeks, Yuanmai, and broad beans, also known as leeks, broad beans, and garlic sprouts); the three trees, namely cherries, wolfberries, and apricots (one is said to be plum, apricot, cherry, There are also said to be plums, cherries, citron heads); fresh water, namely sea bream, puffer fish, squid (one said to be squid, squid, yellow croaker, but also said to be squid, whitebait, squid). Among them, the most common is the taste. In some places, there is the custom of eating moldy tofu at the beginning of summer. It is said that if you eat moldy tofu, you will not be unlucky. Recommended recipes:
2. Similar to the habit of Wuxi folk to eat in the summer, there is a saying that “see the new three in the beginning†in Suzhou. "Three new" refers to freshly cooked cherries, green plums and wheat. People first take this "three new" ancestor worship, and then live for humans to eat. Su popular summer also eat jellyfish, gluten, white bamboo shoots, leeks, salted duck eggs, green beans. Each hotel starts summer and brings in wine and shochu to the old customers who enter the restaurant. It does not take the penny and calls it the "Feeding Festival."
3. Zhenjiang places have a fresh style of eating and drinking. This "eight new" is the cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, tender broad bean, poplar radish, squid and sashimi (yellow fish). One of the most valuable salmon. The first wave of squid was a tribute to the imperial court, the second tidal squid was smashed by the wealthy rich room, and ordinary people ate freshly eaten squid is the eel after three tides.
4. People in Changshu began to taste new foods in the beginning of the summer and the foods were abundant. "Nine Dragonflies" refers to squid, squid, salted fish, salted eggs, sea bream, squid duck, pickled, shrimp, cherry, and squid. "Thirteen" refers to cherries, plums, and wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), like bamboo shoots, broad beans, needles, peas, cucumbers, chopped bamboo shoots, grass heads, radishes, roses, and pine flowers.
5. In the eastern village of Zhedong, there is a custom of eating “seven porridges†at the beginning of the summer. The farmer's neighbors give each other beans, rice, and brown sugar to boil a pot of porridge called “seven porridges†and say that they eat it. Kinds of porridge, neighbors and jealousy, wholeheartedly go to summer till summer. Every time in Hangzhou, people have to cook a new holiday and prepare fruit cakes. Between relatives and neighbors, they can enjoy each other's tea and give gifts. It is called "Evening the Seven Teas in the First Summer."
There is a folk song written in the folk custom of summer in Zhejiang. It is written: Summer plum cakes and cherries, bacon and river fish and glutinous rice cakes. Leek jellyfish salted duck eggs, roast goose broad bean wine bad. Umi cakes approach: use the black rice tree tree leaves after rubbing and soaking in clear water, and then steamed with lotus root starch, purple and black color, fragrant straw.
6. Wenzhou Li summer, every family eats Huaibai, Chunsun and Qingmei. Folks believe that the beginning of summer to eat Huaigu solid teeth, eat spring bamboo shoots healthy bones, eat green plum raising waist, can take advantage of summer. At this time, it was at the time of the squid and the rich rushed to buy, or tasted or sent in, as Haizhen. Ordinary people to save more to eat squid.
7. What does Changsha have to eat in the summer? Former farmers in Changsha thought that it would be better to rain this summer, otherwise the main drought would occur in summer and autumn. The farmer said: "It is not raining in the beginning of summer, and the ploughshare is hung high"; it is not raining in the beginning of summer, and the shrimp and fish are boiled in a pot (Immediately, the water in the pond is dry).
The early rice should be inserted before the beginning of summer, and the agricultural reclamation says that “the spring is inserted in the summer and the summer is insertedâ€, and the early rice planted after the beginning of summer has obvious growth disadvantage. In the first day of planting, the former family of farmers would send firecrackers to Putian, Putian, and called it “Kai Tianmenâ€. Changsha country transplants have the custom of helping each other. Helpers entering the room should congratulate the owner on “Congratulations on planting rice treesâ€. The luncheon owner treats them with salted eggs, big fish, and pink steamed meat. The field workers took a break each time in the morning and afternoon and went ashore to eat rice wine and dim sum. The Tianchao Climax loves to sing a field song, saying that it is “not to sing in the field, but not to sing.†The song of Tian Tian is generally led by middle-aged and older people, and young women should be. Sometimes two families sing and lyrics are mostly question-style, commonly known as "pangeer." If the other party cannot answer the question, the owner of the winning party, Shimoda, toasts and sympathizes with the lead singer. When the field is closed, the head of household gives the helper salt eggs, fried soybeans and large pieces of steamed pork or bacon.
In the summer, a soup ball made from glutinous rice flour mixed with buckwheat fungus is eaten. As the saying goes, “Eat the beginning of the summer and the stone and step into the pitâ€, “Last summer to eat a group (sound tuo), a foot across the river.†Before and after the beginning of summer, there are often strong winds, named "Dragon King storm." In the summer, when the wind is blowing in the east, it is thought that there is a flood. When thunderclimbs thunderstorms in summer, there will be more thunderstorms in the future.
8. Customs of fighting eggs in the beginning of summer in Chuzhou
At noon of this day, every family cooks quail eggs (the eggs are boiled and boiled and cannot be broken). After immersing them in cold water for a few minutes, they are put on the woven mesh bags that have already been woven and hung on the neck of the child. The children will be in groups of three to make a game of fighting eggs. Both sides of the egg, the tip is the head, the round is the tail. When fighting eggs, the head of the egg fights and the egg tail hits the tail of the egg. One by one in the past, the winners confessed defeated, and finally the high and low. The winner of the egg is the first, the egg is called the king; the winner of the egg is the second, and the egg is called the king or the king.
Lunch is glutinous rice, doped with peas. There must be boiled eggs, whole bamboo shoots, shelled peas and other specialties on the table. Folk eggs eat double, bamboo shoots are paired, and peas are countless. The folks have said that they can eat eggs at the beginning of summer. Because eggs are shaped like hearts, people think that eating eggs can make the spirit of the heart and spirit from loss. After the beginning of summer, it is a hot summer. In order to prevent the body from losing weight and losing weight during the summer, the beginning of summer should be supplemented. There is a good life, and the dunked legs are as robust and powerful as spring bamboo shoots. Shelled peas shaped like eyes. The eyes of the ancients were widespread, and people tried to eliminate eye diseases and prayed for eating peas for a year. The eyes were as clear as fresh peas, and they were disease free.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't matter. You can come directly to a bowl of salty glutinous rice to bid farewell to spring.
9. Every household in southern Fujian often mixes red grains into noodles and cook them for consumption by the whole family. Because red grains are red, they are auspicious colors, and they have fermentative effects, so they are rich and healthy, and red grains also help digestion. . After this vulgarization was deferred to later, the red glutinous rice was replaced by sea shrimp, which was called "shrimp (summer and shrimp in the same tongue)." The sea shrimps become red after cooking and are in the same color as red, so as to wish for the summer.
On the day of the beginning of summer, many daughters were married to prepare pork, pork belly, pork loin only, egg noodles and other things to give to their parents and old parents to eat, known as "summer." This filial piety to parents.
Third, the beginning of summer "person" custom
Ancient poetry cloud: "Li Xia scales the number of people weighing, the weight cantilever on the beam." The beginning of the day of the summer of the "called" custom is mainly popular in southern China, originated in the Three Kingdoms era: legend Liu Bei died, Zhuge Liang put his son Adou to Zhao Zilong She was sent to Jiangdong and asked her mother, Wu Guosun, who had returned to her family to support her. That day was the beginning of the summer. In the face of Zhao Zilong, Mrs. Sun weighed the weight of Adou. In the coming year, she began to look at the scales again to see how much weight he would gain. He then wrote to Zhuge Liang and reported that he had formed the custom of the people.
It is said that after this day's weight loss, it is not afraid of the summer heat, will not be thin, otherwise there will be illness. After finishing the summer meal, hang a large scale on the crossbar. Adults pull the scale hook and the weight of the two-legged floating scale. The child sits on a stool in a basket or on a four-legged stool and hangs on a scale hook to weigh. Xi Xia scales can avoid the summer. If the weight gains, it is called "blessing" and the weight is reduced, which means "removing meat." On this day, children are prevented from sitting on stone steps. If they sit, they must sit on seven roots before they can be dissipated. Avoid sitting on the floor (doors), saying that this day to sit on the ground will attract summer foot pain, such as sitting on a road to sit on six more to synthesize seven, only solution. The old mother chose to wear a girl's ear for her on this day. When she was wearing it, she had to take the child to eat the tea egg. When the child opened his mouth and bite the egg, he would wear it. There are also domestic cats wearing their ears and red heads. As early as the ancient kings were often on the initial days of the summer, they went outside the city to welcome the summer, and the days of the summer were to establish the summer.
Fourth, what to eat the most health in early summer?
Folks often say that summer is "bitter summer". Why is it called bitter summer? It is also because eating something "bitter" in the summer is beneficial to the "five elements" of the internal organs. Let's take a look at the food suitable for the beginning of summer and even the whole summer.
1. Start summer to make up for summer: duck eggs make up for summer
The popular tradition of eating eggs at the beginning of summer is called “supplementing summerâ€, so that people do not lose weight in the summer, do not lose weight, and work vigorously. The old Chinese doctor said that the salted duck eggs ate in the summer, and this coincided with the dietitian's statement. The nutritionist said that the duck eggs are rich in calcium, iron and other inorganic salts, and the calcium content, iron content is higher than that of eggs and fresh. Duck eggs are high, it is the first choice for summer to add calcium and iron.
Do not feel bitter gourd bitter, bitter bitter bitter gore, the better the effect of defeating the fire and reduce heat, but this does not mean that the other ingredients contained in it are different, so just pick your favorite taste and preference, you can!
3. Li Xia wants to raise heart: lotus son raises heart
The heart-raising season is summer. At this time, the heart is most fragile, and the hot summer is easy to be irritable and sad, and easily hurts. Although the taste of lotus seed core is rather bitter, it can be pure heart fire, it is a good product for Yangxin, and it can also strengthen the stomach.
4. Summer blood: octopus blood
Octopus (octal octopus) has the effect of boosting blood, invigorating Qi, and suppressing swollen boils. It is rich in protein, minerals and other nutrients, but also rich in anti-fatigue, anti-aging, can extend the life of humans and other important health care factors - natural taurine. Most people can eat, especially for people with weak constitution, lack of blood and malnutrition.
5. Summer detoxification: Strawberry detoxification
Summer is a season rich in strawberries. Eating strawberries can promote the formation of human cells, maintain the normal function of teeth, bones, blood vessels, and muscles and promote wound healing, as well as detoxification. Ancient people have wounds and eat more strawberries. Modern nutritionists also believe that strawberries can enhance the body's resistance, containing a variety of organic acids, acids and pectic substances, can break down food fat, promote secretion of digestive juice and gastrointestinal motility, remove excess cholesterol and harmful heavy metals.
6. Summer ventilation: lettuce ventilation
Lettuce contains a large amount of plant cellulose, can promote peristalsis of the intestine, facilitates the digestive tract, can treat constipation, is the best food for patients with anemia. Recommended Houttuynia lettuce. It has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying and dampness.
7. To clear the intestines in the summer: Pea bowel
Peas are rich in various nutrients needed by the human body, especially high-quality protein, which can improve the body's resistance to disease and ability to recover. The peas rich in crude fiber, can promote bowel movements, maintain smooth bowel movements, play a role in cleaning the large intestine.
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