What are the traditional customs of the long summer solar terms?

In the long summer, it is popular in Fuzhou to cook in summer with a tripod. Fixed-edge paste (also called pot-edge paste) is made of rice paste in a pot, with shrimp, shrimp oil, onion, lily, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of seafood clear soup such as mushrooms and dried clams. It tastes extremely delicious. Anyone who grows up in Fuzhou or lives in Fuzhou for a long time loves to eat it.

"Making Summer" on the edge of "Boiling Ding in Long Summer" prevailed in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The long summer has entered the busy farming season. On this day, the cooking is not only for the whole family to eat well before going to work in the fields, but also for the neighbors to taste together. Just like rinsing the edge of a tripod, "one grain is cooked" to connect feelings. Reflect the traditional virtues of Fuzhou people as "Silver Village in Phnom Penh".

Eat pasta

Wheat is planted in northern China, and long summer is the season for wheat to appear. Therefore, in most parts of the north, people are used to making and eating pasta in the long summer to celebrate the wheat harvest. There are three kinds of pasta in the long summer: summer cake, flour cake and spring rolls.

Summer cakes, also known as hemp cakes, have different shapes, such as riding a horse by the champion, sending a child by Guanyin and holding a peach by a monkey. There are two kinds of bread: sweet and salty. Salty flour cakes are made of shredded pork and leeks dipped in garlic paste, and sweet flour cakes add more sugar. Spring rolls are made of refined pancakes, wrapped with fried bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork and other fillings, sealed with flour mixed with egg white, and then fried in a hot oil pan until Huang eats.

tea

There is a custom of drinking tea in Jiangxi and Yangzhou in the long summer. It is hot in summer, and drinking tea often, especially cool green tea, can make the summer heat disappear and play the role of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification. In addition, the temperature is high in summer, and the human body loses a lot of water. Drinking tea regularly can replenish water in time.

However, theophylline contained in tea is a stimulant of the central nervous system. When drinking tea in summer to cool off the heat, we should also pay attention to avoiding the phenomenon of "drunk tea" and not drinking strong tea. Don't drink tea on an empty stomach, and don't drink a lot of tea. If there is "drunk tea", you can eat something in time and drink some boiled water to relieve it.

Ying Xia

In ancient times, people attached great importance to the long summer. It is reported that on the day of long summer, the emperor will lead officials to hold a ceremony in the suburbs to welcome the arrival of summer. The monarch and his ministers all wore scarlet dresses inlaid with scarlet jade, and the horses and car flags were scarlet to express their desire and good wishes for a bumper harvest. Another custom is that if summer is not welcome, it will be plagued by diseases and disasters.

There is a saying that you should not sit on the threshold in summer, especially children. It is said that if you sit on the threshold in the long summer, you will be tired, sick and depressed for a year in the summer. If a child accidentally sits on the threshold, he must sit on seven thresholds to remove this taboo.