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What does old Beijing eat in the long summer?

The long summer solar term marks the end of spring and the arrival of summer. This year's long summer begins tomorrow. According to health experts, the temperature has risen significantly in the long summer, the summer heat is coming, and thunderstorms are increasing. The key to keeping in good health in summer is "cool". Pay attention to "removing fire" in diet, and eat more cool, light and vitamin-rich foods, such as wax gourd, bitter gourd and green leafy vegetables, in order to remove a lot of internal heat in the human body in winter and spring, and achieve the balance of body mechanism in summer by reasonably supplementing various nutritious foods. Of course, the bitter tangerine peel also has a good cooling effect.

The long summer begins in summer. In the old days, in rural areas, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice and cooked into "five-color rice". Later, it evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese bean meat. The dish consisted of amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "long summer rice". However, this seems to be a custom in the south.

All of the above are checked online. Actually, I don't know much about it either. All I know is that I can stand eggs.