What traditional food do you eat on the solstice in summer?

1, summer solstice cake, as the saying goes, "summer solstice, summer solstice, eat all wheat cakes." Since ancient times, there has been a custom of summer solstice festival, and people will share summer solstice cakes after offering sacrifices to their ancestors. Summer solstice cake, half moon cake, looks similar to the northern pasta leek box, but the materials and methods are different. The most common way is to mash wormwood, mix it with wheat flour, add a proper amount of sweet noodle sauce in the middle of the cake, and bake the cake with a hot pot. Summer solstice cake looks ugly, but it tastes fresh and refreshing, sweet but not greasy. It is a real green food suitable for all ages.

2, wonton, in Wuxi, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of eating wonton from summer to day. Wonton has a long history and is known as "like a chicken laying eggs, rather like chaos in heaven and earth". Take the meaning of chaos and say that eating wonton can make you smart. When eating wonton from summer solstice, some people mix noodles in wonton, so as to avoid "summer", and compare the length of noodles with the long day time from summer solstice to get a good color of longevity.

3. From summer to the sun, there is a folk saying that "eating from summer to the sun, one day is shorter than the first line", that is, the daytime time begins to shorten gradually. Eating noodles on the solstice in summer is an important custom in many areas. As the saying goes, "Eat noodles in jiaozi on the solstice in winter", and it is the right time to eat noodles on the solstice in summer. There are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dry soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, sesame oil noodles, cold noodles, etc. In the north, noodles with gravy and noodles with dregs are the main ones. In summer solstice, noodle restaurants in the north are very popular. No matter Sichuan cold noodles, Dandan Noodles, braised pork noodles or zhajiang noodles, all kinds of noodles are very popular.

4, pea cake, on the day of summer solstice, there was a custom of eating pea cakes around summer solstice. The origin of this custom is because the weather is hot in summer, and people don't think about diet. Let the children eat pea cakes to appetize first, and feel the summer harvest while appetizing. "Shanxi Tourism Survey" said, "Summer cold dishes are one of the famous snacks in Taiyuan, and the pea cake made by Jia Dewang, the chef of Dadongguan Hotel, has long been famous in Jinyang".

5, eggs from summer to day, folks believe that eating eggs from summer to day can strengthen the body and strengthen the stomach, and walk like a fly. As the saying goes, "Eggs are eaten from the summer solstice, and the slate is trampled." On the day of the summer solstice, the whole egg is cooked, and the skin of the egg is dyed red with red paper or red dye, and then put into a small net bag, tied on the chest of children, hung until noon or afternoon, and then peeled off for eating. This practice is widely circulated in Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou, Xiangxi and other places in southern Hunan.