The origin of "eating new things" in the summer heat

Have you arrived yet? A little hot? Solar terms, I often hear people say? Fresh food? And then what? Fresh food? What is it? Let me introduce you to the heat in summer. Fresh food? The origin, welcome to read.

A little hot? Fresh food? The origin of eating new rice in June is that Hakka people make new rice into rice after the sickle of early rice is opened, and at the beginning of the meal, they pay homage to the folk activities of the five grain gods and ancestors. Due to war and famine, Hakkas have been migrating south from the Central Plains. Because many plains are well occupied by aborigines or residents who arrived earlier, Hakkas can only live by mountains and reclaim land in mountainous areas. Most of them have a hard life. It is not easy to cook porridge or miscellaneous grains with rice and eat dry rice three times a day.

After living and working in the south, Hakka people have reverence for their ancestors' hard work and creation of fertile land. Since the end of the Song Dynasty, there has been a custom among the people that early rice ripens after the high temperature in summer every year. Before eating the first bite of new rice, they make it into dry rice to produce new wine, including meat and eggs, as well as newly listed bitter gourd, loofah and eggplant.

According to the "customs" of Hakka people, objects are placed on the altar of grains, and incense and candles are burned before reading. Invite the God of Grains to eat new grain. Thank the God of Grains for his kindness and harvest. Wish the whole family good health. ? After the incense is reduced to ashes, burn the coat paper. Then put rice, wine, meat and vegetables on your dining table to read? Ask the ancestors (predecessors) to taste the new? Worship three times with both hands.

At noon, please invite the villagers who have harvested rice to eat new grain together, exchange production experience and make plans for developing production. Because of the custom of eating new rice, residents in the city will also go to the countryside to buy new rice and combine it with old rice to eat new rice. Dry rice cooked with my own rice is delicious and intimate. Generally speaking, the people invited are all from the countryside? Brother helper? Long-awaited dry rice, distinctive dining table and unique taste. Nowadays, although eating dry rice is very common, the custom of eating new things is still prevalent in Hakka rural areas.