What should I eat in the long summer?

Every year, the fifth or sixth day of the fifth lunar month is a long summer, and the weather in the long summer is getting hotter, so it is necessary to control it with "coolness" and drive it away with "dryness". So what should we eat in the long summer? The following small series will answer your question.

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What should I eat in the long summer?

How to eat and keep healthy in changxia?

The significance of eating eggs in long summer

What should I eat in the long summer?

1, 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. Cook rice and ingredients in the open air in summer, put plums and cherries on the rice, and distribute them to the one that gave rice a few days ago, the first one with 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.

2, long summer eggs

Customs 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.

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

3, 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 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. If Leiyang people can carry forward this delicious food, cook this dish in every solar term and even become a common food in hotels, it will be very popular.

4. Black rice

Black rice was originally a folk festival food in China, which had existed in the Tang Dynasty. In Jiangsu and Anhui, it has become a custom for many people to cook black rice with the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum.

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the traditional Nirvana Festival in China. According to folklore, in order to get food, Mulian, a disciple of Sakyamuni, tried to dye rice with the juice of southern candle leaves and cook it into black rice to send. Hungry ghosts dare not eat it. Mother is finally full, and the people eat black rice every year to commemorate Manglietia's dutiful son. According to the new edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, candle leaves are the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum, an Ericaceae plant.

5, wheat silkworm

Green wheat balls, or green wheat silkworms, are known as cool cakes in oriental language and belong to the traditional snacks of Sha people (now Haimen City and Qidong City, Jiangsu Province). Now this kind of snack is rare, and fewer and fewer people cook it. Old times. Farmers generally live in poverty. Every February and March, when the fairy was sad, almost all the food in the house was eaten up, so she cut the green wheat ears in the field and went home, rubbed the green wheat grains with her hands, blew off the wheat shells, and then fried them in a pot. Clean the wheat husk again (because it can't be cleaned all at once). After frying in the pot, grind the wheat grains into thin wheat bars with a stone mill while it is hot. Because it looks like a little silkworm, Sandman calls it a wheat silkworm.

6, foot bone bamboo shoots

In the long summer, people in Ningbo like to eat foot bone bamboo shoots, which are slender wild bamboo shoots and symbols of hope and health. Ningbo people call it "foot bone bamboo shoot" and Fenghua people call it "mother bamboo shoot", which is a kind of wild mountain bamboo shoot and tastes particularly good.

Legend has it that if you eat it in the long summer, you can grow like bamboo shoots every day. There is an old saying in Ningbo, "Eating bamboo shoots with bones in long summer makes bones healthy for one year".

7. Qijiazhou

In the long summer, in rural Zhejiang, you must eat "Qijia porridge", also called "Qijia tea". Seven porridge is a big pot of porridge made of rice, beans and brown sugar from the neighbor's house. Let's share it. 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. When Hangzhou people visit Changxia, they will cook a new meal, prepare fruit cakes and offer tea to relatives and neighbors, which is called "eating seven teas in Changxia".

8. Seven kinds of tea

Making new tea in summer is an old custom in Hangzhou _ relatives and neighbors call it seven teas. Xi Chao, A Journey to the West Lake in Rucheng, Tian Ming: "On the day of long summer, each family cooks new tea and gives it to relatives and neighbors with all kinds of beautiful fruits, which is called seven teas. Rich rooms compete for luxury, melons and fruits are carved with gold foil, and fragrant soups, such as jasmine, Lin Qin, rose, cinnamon, Ding Tan and Su Xing, all take Ge Ou as a bite. "

9. light cake

In Gwangju, Henan (now Huangchuan, Henan), there is also a kind of "baked buns" ("boiled buns") barbecued with charcoal fire. It is to mix the dough, cut it into pieces, knead it round and flatten it, then brush it with water and stick it on a charcoal stove for barbecue. Some are sweet, some are salty, and some are not sweet or salty. The appearance, color and size are exactly the same as those of Fuzhou Easy Cake, except that there is a silk hole in the center of the cake.

The genealogy of Fuzhou people who moved south from the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty records that their ancestors came from Gwangju. It can be inferred that from the Tang Dynasty, Fuzhou had "baked buns", which were called "light cakes" because they came from Gwangju. "Light cake" is the traditional name of Fuzhou. In ancient times, scholars in Fuzhou often brought "light cakes" to satisfy their hunger. Because it is convenient to carry, eat and store, it has become a cheap "three convenient dry food".

In addition, Fuzhou people always have "light cakes" in many offerings when they worship their ancestors to sweep the graves every year, which has become a distinctive regional folk culture for people to remember their loved ones and ancestors.

In history, there was a simple "light cake", that is, the so-called dry food that General Qi Jiguang ordered to March to kill the Japanese. Judging from the word "light", it not only refers to the characteristics of cake shape and color, but also includes the "light" from Gwangju to commemorate General Qi. The connotation of food culture is rich and profound, with a sense of history.

10, booth

In summer, cauliflower or jujube lard and paste powder are called "powder", which can be eaten in long summer to prevent diseases and drive away disasters.

Shanghai Ququ recorded the custom of Shanghai in the Qing Dynasty: "There is a so-called' grass head', and wild vegetables are cut in summer. Grinding rice to cook and frying it in grass seeds is very crisp and fragrant, called' stall'. " The "grass head" mentioned in this paper is the modern "grass head", that is, the tender leaves of alfalfa, and the "stubble" is rice flour ground from rice, while the "stall" in dialect is to spread soft or mushy food into pieces for frying and baking. Nowadays, Shanghainese make flour or rice flour into a thick paste and then fry it in a pot or bake it into a cake, which is called "pancake", while it is called "pancake" in old Shanghainese. Liu Ming Ruoyu said in "On Eating Well": "The family uses millet flour and jujube cakes to fry; Or spread noodles and fine noodles into pancakes, called' fumigation'. " This "spreading" means spreading evenly into thin sheets. Caotou is still a favorite vegetable in Shanghai, but most of them are fried into "bouquets of Caotou" or used as bedding for meat dishes, such as "Caotou Circle". Shanghainese have long forgotten that our ancestors had the custom of eating "Caotoutan" in summer. However, the food that the ancients thought was delicious may not be popular with people today.

1 1, shrimp noodles

Summer begins in early April of the lunar calendar and mid-May of the solar calendar. On this day, in the past, every household in southern Fujian often cooked red distiller's grains into noodles for the whole family to eat. Because the color of red distiller's grains is auspicious, it also has the function of fermentation, which means wealth. Red distiller's grains also help digestion and are beneficial to health. Later, this custom evolved, and red distiller's grains were replaced by sea shrimp, which was called "eating shrimp noodles". Shrimp will turn red when cooked, the same color as red grain, as a wish for summer.

On the day of long summer, many married daughters will prepare pork, pork belly, pork loin and egg noodles for their parents to eat, which is called "summer tonic". To show filial piety to parents. Coastal fishermen pay special attention to the weather on the "long summer" day. If it rains on this day, it will be greatly unfavorable to fishermen's fishing operations, resulting in a poor harvest throughout the year. On the other hand, farmers think that the long summer rain is a good sign. As the saying goes, "When the rainfall is bad in summer, the farmer is really like an emperor", that is, abundant rainfall in summer can ensure a bumper harvest.

12, tender broad bean

Long summer marks the departure of spring and the beginning of summer, so this day was also called "the end of spring" in ancient times, that is, the day when spring ended. Traditionally, people often regard long summer as an important solar term when the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season. As the saying goes, "Spring grows in summer and autumn harvests in winter". On such a special day of long summer, Shaoxing people have the custom of eating beans, eggs and weighing themselves, all of which contain the beautiful expectation of the ancients praying for a safe summer.

After the long summer, it is the season when green broad beans are on the market. In Jiangsu, many people will cook broad beans and rice in one pot, which is called "broad bean rice". In Wang Zhen's "Agricultural Book", broad beans are said to be "the first of the hundred grains, which can be eaten when cooked, instead of rice to satisfy hunger". In the rural areas of northern Jiangsu. Most of the fields there are salty fields (the soil contains saline-alkali soil, which evolved from the yellow sea beach), and the fields are planted with either broad beans or cotton. In May every year, when broad beans are ripe, many people use them as food and rice. In cities, broad beans are often eaten as side dishes. Broad beans are soft and crisp, with waxy sand, soft and greasy, and delicious. Whether eaten as a side dish or as a "snack food", there are many ways to eat it. Su Beiren has a soft spot for broad beans. In the season when fresh broad beans are on the market, they are often used to stir-fry pickles and burn shredded bamboo shoots soup.

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How to eat and keep healthy in changxia?

First of all, the diet should be light

After the long summer, the heat is pressing, making people fidgety and sad, and their appetite will also drop. Therefore, the diet should be light, mainly digestible and vitamin-rich foods, and try to eat less big fish and meat and greasy and spicy foods. Eating more lotus seeds, bean products, chicken, lean meat, sesame seeds and corn, and drinking more milk can not only supplement nutrition, but also play a role in strengthening the heart. Recommend several nourishing recipes for everyone.

Lotus-leaf preserved chicken: take 2 slices of fresh lotus leaves, 30g of ham, 250g of boneless chicken, 50g of water mushroom, 12g of corn flour, salt, sugar, chicken oil, Shaoxing wine, onion, ginger, pepper, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil. Slice chicken, mushrooms and ginger. Wash the lotus leaf, blanch it with boiling water, remove the pedicle and cut it into 10 triangle for later use. Blanch the mushrooms with boiling water, take them out, take a bath, put them on a plate with chicken, add the above seasonings and stir well, then put them on the 10 triangular lotus leaf, add a slice of ham each, wrap them in rectangular bags and steam them in a cage for about 2 hours. This dish helps to nourish the heart, strengthen the spleen and tonify deficiency.

Lotus-seed pork tripe: take 1 pork tripe, 50g lotus seeds, and appropriate amount of sesame oil, refined salt, ginger, onion and garlic. First, soak the lotus seeds in water, put them in the pig's belly, sew them with thread, put them in a pot, stew them with water, and then take them out to cool. Pork belly is cut into uniform filaments, put on a plate with lotus seeds, and then mixed with sesame oil, refined salt and onion and garlic seasoning. This dish can dispel heart fire, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach.

Second, appropriately "increase acid and reduce bitterness"

In the long summer season, the change of nature is that the yang grows longer and the yin weakens. Compared with human viscera, the liver is getting weaker and stronger. At this time, the dietary principle is to increase acid and reduce bitterness, tonify kidney and help liver, and harmonize stomach. When the weather turns hot, people tend to lose body fluids when sweating, so they need to eat sour food, such as tomatoes, lemons, strawberries, ebony, grapes, hawthorn, pineapples, mangoes and kiwis. Their sour taste can stop sweating, diarrhea and dampness, prevent excessive sweating, consume gas and hurt yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst, strengthen stomach and promote digestion.

Fruit salad: peel and seed apples, pears and bananas, cut them into slices one inch long and three minutes wide, cut oranges, cut strawberries in half, and put them into a container and mix well. Wash and disinfect lettuce leaves for later use. Use lettuce leaves at the bottom of a small dish and put the mixed fruit slices on it. Then pour the whipped cream and lemon juice into the salad dressing and mix well, then pour it on the fruit slices. Salad is bright in color, sweet and refreshing, and the method is simple. The variety and quantity of fruits can be increased or decreased at will according to personal taste. However, it is recommended to eat it immediately after it is cooked, and it is not advisable to leave it for too long.

Tomato sago porridge: Remove the pedicle of tomato, wash it with cold water, scald it with boiling water, remove it and put it in cold water, tear off the skin, cut it in half, and then cut it into cubes with a knife; Washing sago, soaking in cold water, taking out and draining; Add about 1000 ml of cold water to the pot, add sago, bring to a boil over high fire, add tomato pieces and cook over low fire; Add sugar and osmanthus fragrans and serve.

Third, eat more thin food to promote diuresis.

The weather turns hot, sweating more, and the water lost in the body also increases. Therefore, eating thin food, such as porridge in the morning and evening and soup for lunch, is an important way for Xia Hou to keep fit.

Lily lotus seed mung bean porridge: take 50 grams of lily lotus seed, 200 grams of mung bean, 0/00 gram of japonica rice/kloc and 30 grams of rock sugar. Soak lily in clear water for later use; Wash mung beans and japonica rice; Soak the dried tangerine peel and scrape it clean. After the water is boiled, add lotus seeds, mung beans, japonica rice and dried tangerine peel and cook together. Porridge will be cooked with lily, seasoned with rock sugar, and can be eaten after cooking again.

Wax gourd sashimi soup: take a raw fish, 500 grams of wax gourd, 60 grams of red beans and 5 onions. Cut open the raw fish, remove scales and intestines, wash, cut the wax gourd into pieces with skin, mash the onion, wash the red beans, put them in a pot with 4 bowls of water, cook until the raw fish is cooked, and season with salt.

In addition, eating more foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as watermelon, peach, dark plum, strawberry, tomato, cucumber and mung bean, is beneficial to replenish water in the body.

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The significance of eating eggs in long summer

"If you eat eggs in the long summer, it will not be summer on a hot day."

First, what is "summer"? In fact, summer is a general term used by old people in the past to express weakness, fatigue and listlessness. Mostly used in early summer and children. Because after a long summer, the weather is hot and the climate is sultry, many children will lose their appetite and get tired easily, so the ancients summed up the symptoms of such a summer.

Second, if we eat eggs, it won't be summer if it is hot. Literally, if you eat eggs on the day of long summer, the symptoms of summer will not appear this summer. After the long summer, the weather is hot, and people may still be immersed in the environment of spring breeze, but when the long summer comes, it will break such environmental laws. For many children, hot summer and sultry weather, therefore, children will show symptoms of loss of appetite and general weakness. Old people in rural areas will say that this phenomenon of children is summer. In order to prevent this phenomenon, the old people summed up a custom that eating eggs can prevent heatstroke.

Because from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, eggs are flat, nourishing qi and blood deficiency, calming the nerves and nourishing the heart, and indeed have a certain therapeutic effect on physical fatigue, limb weakness and loss of appetite.

Third, in the past, rural life was poor, and eggs were expensive as nutrition. There has always been a saying in the countryside that "eggs are as cheap as vegetables in April". In this season when eggs are the cheapest, farmers can also afford eggs, because after a long summer, farming is getting busy. Eating eggs properly and supplementing nutrition are of course more beneficial to our health.

In today's view, the phrase "eat eggs in the long summer, and summer will not break out on a hot day", although it has not been scientifically recognized, is also the implication of people's healthy life. Nowadays, eating eggs in long summer has become a custom.

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