Why do you want to eat glutinous rice balls when you take stock of the traditional food in Changsha?

Every traditional festival will have one or two kinds of seasonal food representing this festival. For example, we eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival, Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the same is true in the coming long summer. There are many traditional foods to eat in the long summer season everywhere ~

Long summer is one of the traditional 24 solar terms. Moral: Farewell to spring and long summer. The long summer indicates the arrival of summer, and the weather will get hotter and hotter. In ancient times, people held grand ceremonies to welcome summer; People have gradually formed a series of customs such as eating "five-colored rice" and eating eggs, which means to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings.

Long summer rice:

Every day before the long summer, children will ask the first family next door for a bowl of rice, which is called "taking Xia Xia rice". Dig some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans and use some garlic seedlings. In summer, rice and ingredients are cooked in the open air, and plums and cherries are put on the rice. The day before yesterday, they are distributed to rice families, and each family has a small bowl. Folk believe that children can prevent heatstroke after eating.

Long summer rice contains condiments such as thunder bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans and amaranth. Eating five-colored rice in the long summer also means being healthy all year round.

Long summer eggs:

This is the custom of Han nationality in Jiangnan. Every long summer, people eat boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, thinking that eating eggs in long summer can keep fit. Long summer eggs are the most classic food in that long summer. The day before long summer, long summer cooks eggs at home, usually tea or walnut shells, and the eggshells turn red slowly, making the house delicious. Eat the tea eggs while they are hot. When eating, you should pour good Shao wine and sprinkle some fine salt. The wine is fragrant.

Besides eating long summer eggs, there are other ways to play. Boiled eggs, pick out intact ones, weave egg covers with colored threads and hang them on children's chests or curtains. Children also have to lean on long summer eggs (that is, touch eggs), which is the happiest and most exciting thing on this day. By eggs, the shell is firm but not broken.

Long summer porridge:

Long summer porridge is a traditional snack in Leiyang, Hunan Province, which belongs to the long summer festival food. This snack is a must for Leiyang's diet. Leiyang people have always attached importance to farming and mulberry activities and are particularly sensitive to the 24 solar terms. Every solar term comes, people always like to celebrate food through some forms of sacrifice, intuitively and vividly reminding each other not to forget farming, not to miss farming time, and to enjoy the fun of life from food. For example, in the long summer, this is the season of transplanting rice seedlings, and farming is hard, so every household cooks long summer porridge to express their good wishes for a bumper harvest.

Long summer porridge is mainly made of rice, with lean meat, glutinous rice balls, vermicelli, dried bamboo shoots, Chinese toon, pig viscera, red dates, peas, bean sprouts and eggs. After cooking, it is steaming and fragrant. Neighborhood, exchange gifts, one is to show their skills, and the other is harmonious feelings. Unfortunately, long summer porridge can only be eaten in the long summer season.

Long summer fruit:

Chang Xia Guo, also known as Chang Xia Guo, is a festival food custom. A kind of glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice balls eaten in the Long Summer Festival are steamed rice, kneaded into small glutinous rice balls, and then cooked with bean sprouts, dried beancurd, dried shrimps and peas into soup, which is called Long Summer Soup, also called Long Summer jiaozi, and eaten by the whole family. As the saying goes, "food grows in summer", not afraid of heavy rain (dare to work in the rain).

After the long summer, it is another hot summer. People eat some food in the long summer, usually hoping to pray for peace.

Other customs:

People in Shengzhou, Zhejiang believe that crutches eat eggs (meaning "raising"), bamboo shoots in summer and peas in summer;

People in Changsha, Hunan eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage in summer, which is called "long summer soup". There is a folk saying that "eat long summer soup and learn from into the pit" and "eat a ball in long summer (pronounced" Tuo ") and cross the river with one foot", which means that he is extremely powerful and as light as a swallow;

Farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai make strip-shaped food with wheat flour and sugar in summer, which is called "wheat silkworm". When people eat them, they can avoid "summer".

People in Tongshan County, Hubei Province regard the long summer as an important festival. Chang Xia, a native of Tongshan, eats soaked strawberries, shrimps and bamboo shoots, which is called "eating soaked eyes, eating shrimps is strong, and eating bamboo shoots strengthens the feet and bones".

Eating shrimp noodles in southern Fujian in the long summer is to buy shrimp and cook it in the noodles. Shrimp turns red when cooked, indicating good luck. Shrimp is homophonic with summer, which is a wish for summer.

East Fujian mainly eats "light cakes" (flour baked with a little salt) in the long summer.

Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and ate fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and waste vegetables.

Some villages in Chunchi Town, zhouning county eat "long summer paste", which can be divided into rice paste and sweet potato paste. Cook the soup in a large pot. The content of soup is extremely rich, including meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu and so on. Neighbors invited each other to drink paste soup. This is similar to the custom of eating "Qijia porridge" in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang in the long summer.

"Qijia porridge" and "Qijia tea" are another form of tasting new things in the long summer. Qijia porridge is a big pot of porridge, which is made of rice, beans and brown sugar from neighbors for everyone to share. Seven families brought white baked tea, mixed it, cooked it or soaked it into a big pot of tea, and then everyone got together to drink it. These porridge or tea are not necessarily delicious food, but these ceremonies can be said to be important social activities in rural society in the past.

In the long summer, in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating "seven porridge", that is, farmers give each other beans and rice and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge". It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious, and they are bent on going to Xia Geng for summer sowing.