What traditional food do you eat during the summer solstice?

1. Traditional foods eaten from summer solstice include cold noodles, porridge, soup from summer solstice, wonton, hot noodles and so on. In the past, old Beijing had the habit of eating cold noodles during the summer solstice. Eating these raw and cold foods can effectively help reduce fire and stimulate appetite. On the day of summer solstice, Wuxi people will eat porridge as breakfast, which can effectively alleviate the loss of appetite during the "bitter summer". People in Changsha eat dumplings made of glutinous rice flour and mouse grass on the summer solstice, which is called "summer solstice soup".

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. Every year on June 2 1 or 22 of Gregorian calendar, the sun moves to 90 degrees of the yellow meridian, which is the summer solstice. At this time, the position of the sun directly on the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly on the Tropic of Cancer, and the sunshine time in the northern hemisphere is the longest. After the summer solstice, Yin Qi began to grow and Yang Qi began to decline. "However, the summer solstice is not hot." "The summer solstice is already three years old." Although the summer solstice indicates that the hot summer has arrived, it is not the hottest time. After the summer solstice, the temperature will continue to rise for some time, and about twenty or thirty days is the hottest weather.

3. The ancient Chinese divided the summer solstice into three stages: the first stage was the dissolution of antlers, the second stage was the beginning of cicada singing, and the third stage was the birth of Pinellia ternata. The summer solstice is also an important traditional folk festival-"Summer solstice festival". Folk customs include offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, avoiding summer, eating noodles and zongzi. In summer solstice, in addition to relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, we should try our best to be calm and pay attention to sleep. The weather is hot and the metabolism of human body is accelerated, so the intensity of exercise should be moderately reduced.