What does Chang Xia eat?

Eating five-color rice in long summer is also called long summer rice. Traditional long-summer rice is made of red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans. In the old Long Summer Festival, five-color beans, such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans, were mixed with white japonica rice to make five-color rice. Some families in urban and rural areas in Ningbo still retain this ancient style, but later, the material of long summer rice was changed to five other foods, namely broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens and pickles or bacon, also known as five kinds of rice.

Long summer is the seventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer. The festival is held on May 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast, and the longitude of the sun reaches 45. Almanac: Dou refers to the southeast, Wei refers to the long summer, and everything grows here, hence the name long summer. After the long summer, the sunshine increased, gradually warming, and thunderstorms increased. Long summer is an important solar term, marking the peak season for the growth of all things. In the long summer, everything is thriving.

On the day of long summer, many places have the custom of eating long summer rice, eating eggs, weighing people and tasting three new things. Entering the long summer, people's metabolism is accelerated, and blood supply to the heart and brain is insufficient, which often makes people fidgety, tired and lazy. It is necessary to arrange work and rest time reasonably, supplement nutrition and adopt correct health care methods.