What traditional food does Hunan eat on the solstice in summer?

Eating traditional food in Hunan, such as summer solstice eggs and summer solstice soup, has different meanings, which is a traditional custom handed down from ancient times.

Eating solstice eggs in summer is a custom in Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi, Hunan Province. After the eggs are cooked in the morning, they are dyed red with red paper, then put in small net bags and hung on the children's chests until noon or afternoon.

People in Changsha will eat summer solstice soup, which is a soup made of glutinous rice flour and sage. There is also a saying that "eating the summer solstice soup becomes a pit", which is a powerful metaphor.

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms and a very important festival. Different regions have different customs and habits. In the northern region, there is a tradition of eating cold noodles, summer solstice cakes, new wheat and other foods on this day. Nanjing eats pea cakes and Wuxi eats wonton porridge.

Although the customs are different, the moral is good. The summer solstice is June 20th or June 20th 2 1 day and 22nd every year, which means that the hot summer has arrived. During the summer solstice, the daytime in the northern hemisphere reaches the longest in the whole year, and then gradually decreases.

After the summer solstice, the temperature will gradually rise, there will be a lot of high temperature weather, and the rainfall will gradually increase. If there is a typhoon, there will be heavy rain in the coastal areas, even in the season without typhoon, there will be plum rain, which will increase the air humidity and become very humid.