It is necessary to eat solar food in the long summer in the south.

What traditional food does the south eat in the long summer?

Long summer egg

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will eat salted eggs, and long summer will eat eggs on this day, which is called "summer tonic". Salted duck eggs are the best, because salted duck eggs are rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and iron, and the calcium content and iron ratio are higher than those of eggs and fresh duck eggs, so they are the first choice for supplementing calcium and iron in summer. "Long Summer Egg" is the most classic food in that long summer. Eating it can prevent common discomfort such as loss of appetite, fatigue and weakness of limbs in summer. Long summer eggs can be boiled eggs or salted duck eggs. If you cook eggs, you usually cook them with tea powder or walnut shells. Watching the eggshells turn red slowly, the house is full of fragrance. Salted duck eggs are rich in calcium and iron. You can try them.

black kerneled rice

Black rice, black and shiny, fragrant and delicious, is made by soaking glutinous rice in black leaves for several hours and then cooking. On this day of long summer, Jiangnan people love to eat. It is said that this custom originated from Sun Bin, a famous strategist in the Warring States Period. There is also a folk legend that eating black rice will not be bitten by mosquitoes in long summer and summer, and it is not easy to get heatstroke. Black rice was originally a folk festival food of the Han nationality, which 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.

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".

Zhang Sam sun

Wuxi folks have always had the custom of tasting three delicacies in the long summer. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, wheat, broad bean, amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout); Three fresh trees are cherry, loquat and apricot (one is plum, apricot and cherry, and the other is plum, cherry and toon head); The three kinds of fresh water are marine fish, puffer fish and shad (shad, shad and yellow croaker, as well as shad, whitebait and mackerel). Among them, tasting fresh land is the most common.

Long summer tastes eight new things.

Zhenjiang has the saying that "eight new things are tasted in the long summer". This "eight new" is cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, tender broad beans, radish, shad and grouper (yellow croaker). Among them, shad is the most precious. The first tidal shad was a tribute to the imperial court, and the second tidal shad was taken away by the rich to satisfy their greed. Ordinary people have tasted the shad after the third tide.

Jiu hun Shi San su

Chang Xia, a native of Changshu, has a new taste and rich food. There is a saying of "nine meats and thirteen vegetarian dishes". "Nine meats" refer to shad, bonito, salted fish, salted eggs, sea cucumbers, elk ducks, salted shrimps, cherry meat and pomfret. "Thirteen elements" refer to cherries, plums, and wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), such as bamboo shoots, broad beans, hairy needles, peas, cucumbers, chicory bamboo shoots, grass heads, radishes, roses, pine flowers, etc.

Eat "light cake"

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" and cook soup in a big pot. The content of soup is extremely rich, including meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chickens and ducks in water, tofu and so on.

It is necessary to eat solar food in the long summer in the south.

spread

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.

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.

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.

Qijiacha

Cooking new tea in summer to feed relatives and neighbors is an old custom in Hangzhou, called seven teas. Xi Chao, A Journey to the West Lake in Rucheng, Tian Ming: "On the day of long summer, people make new tea and give it to relatives and friends 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. "

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".

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.