Brief introduction to the custom food of summer solstice solar terms

1, summer solstice eggs: eat summer solstice eggs in Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi, Hunan. In southern Hunan, it is mainly Jiahe, Lanshan and Guiyang who get up in the morning of the summer solstice, cook the whole egg, dye the skin of the egg with red paper or red dye, put it in a small net bag and tie it on the chest of children until noon or afternoon, then peel off the eggshell and eat the egg. People think that eating eggs in summer solstice can strengthen the body, strengthen the stomach and keep pace. As the saying goes, "eggs are eaten in summer solstice, and the slate is trampled."

2. Hot noodle soup: Some people like to eat hot noodle soup in hot summer, which is called "pot picking". It is said that it means "evil". Eating hot noodles is to drive away evil spirits, and sweating more to drive away moisture and summer heat in the human body.

3, lettuce, cold noodles: the custom of old Beijing, you can start eating lettuce and cold noodles every summer to day, eating these cold foods can effectively help reduce fire and increase appetite, but it will not damage your health because it is too cold. Therefore, whenever the summer solstice comes, cold noodles will sell well.

4. Zongzi: In the northwest of China, many people have the habit of eating Zongzi from summer to Sunday. People will make zongzi with glutinous rice, red dates and other things, and eat this kind of zongzi on the solstice in summer. People think that eating this kind of zongzi means saying goodbye to the summer that belongs to the sun.

5, summer solstice cake: Jiangnan eating customs, generally there are wheat dumplings, millet, plums, wonton, noodle soup and so on. "Wujiang County Records" records: "On the summer solstice, make wheat dumplings, and pay them when they are sacrificed first." People not only eat "wheat jiaozi", but also give gifts to each other. On the summer solstice, farmers will roll noodles to make pancakes, bake them, put vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon on them, eat them after ancestor worship or distribute them to relatives and friends, commonly known as "summer solstice cakes".

6. Round paste dipping: In the past, during the summer solstice, many farmers in Zhejiang would put prepared glutinous rice sticks on bamboo sticks and put them in the gaps of paddy fields to burn incense as sacrifices and pray for a bumper harvest. At present, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province still has the habit of eating round paste from summer to sun. Round paste is similar to old Beijing paste. It is made of wheat flour and vegetables. Spread it into pancakes or roll it up and you can eat it directly.