What is the moral of long summer rice? Where is the tradition of long summer rice?

Among the four seasons, I like sunny summer best. Although the sun is very hot, it's time to eat ice cream and watermelon. But before that, we have to have a traditional festival before we can officially enter the summer. It was a long summer festival. Many friends know that Chang Xia will eat rice on this day, but I don't know why. Next, follow me to see what the moral of long summer rice is.

What is the moral of long summer rice?

Long summer is the first solar term in summer, which indicates the beginning of summer. After that, the temperature increased obviously, the summer heat came, and thunderstorms increased. Crops also began to grow in the peak season. There are many customs and habits in the long summer on this day, and the diet in the long summer is even more particular. There are many folk foods in the long summer, such as long summer rice, long summer eggs, long summer soup, black rice, wheat silkworm, foot bone bamboo shoots, Qijia porridge, Qijia tea and so on.

Where is the tradition of long summer rice?

In the summer in Hangzhou, there is a saying that "three roasting, five roasting and nine seasons are new", and "three roasting" refers to sesame cake (summer cake), roast goose and soju (sweet wine); "Five Waxes" refer to yellow croaker, bacon, salted eggs (salted duck eggs), conch and Qingming dog (every year, the cake shops in the town are made of glutinous rice flour, which looks like puppies, and families are scrambling to hang them in court. Pick it in summer and cook it with shepherd's purse flowers for children to eat. People think it can avoid symptoms. "Long-term appetite" refers to cherries, plums, shad, broad beans, amaranth, soybean sprouts, roses, black rice cakes and lettuce. With the development of the times, some ancient dietary customs have also changed and enriched.

In Hangzhou, it is indispensable to have a long summer meal on a long summer day. There are two kinds of long summer rice with Hangzhou characteristics, one is pea glutinous rice and the other is black rice. In my childhood memory, it seems that every summer begins with such a long bowl of summer rice.