Twenty-four solar terms and the summer solstice of twenty-four foods

Summer solstice, summer solstice, summer solstice has arrived, which means the official start of summer.

The summer solstice is the tenth of the twenty-four solar terms, which falls between June 20th and 22nd in the Gregorian calendar every year. On this day every year, the sun moves to 90 degrees of the yellow meridian, and the position of the sun directly on the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly on the Tropic of Cancer. At this time, the daytime hours in all parts of the northern hemisphere reach the longest in the whole year. For the Tropic of Cancer and its northern area, the summer solstice is also the highest day of the year at noon. On this day, the northern hemisphere received the most solar radiation, almost twice as much as the southern hemisphere. Similarly, the polar day in the Arctic and the polar night in the Antarctic peak at the same time.

However, the so-called prosperity will decline, and everything in the world is like this. The solstice in summer is the turning point of the sun. After this day, I went back. The direct sunlight point moved southward from the Tropic of Cancer, and the daylight in the northern hemisphere became shorter and shorter day by day. After the summer solstice, the tropic of cancer and its northern area, the solar altitude angle at noon also began to decrease day by day, until the winter solstice, it will decrease to the lowest point, and then it will appear repeatedly.

Solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms. In the 7th century BC, ancient ancestors had learned to measure the shadow of the sun with earth gauges, thus determining the summer solstice. In ancient China, the summer solstice was divided into three phases: "The first phase of staghorn dissolution; Second, wait for cicadas to start singing; Third-class Pinellia ternata. " Although elk and deer belong to the same family, the ancients thought they belonged to yin and yang. The deer's horn faces forward, so it belongs to Yang. On the solstice of summer, Yin Qi was born, and Yang Qi began to decline, so the front antlers began to fall off. However, the elk is cloudy, so it falls off at the corner from winter to Sunday; After the solstice of summer, the male cicada fluttered and sang because of Yin Qi's feeling; Pinellia ternata is a shade-loving herb, named after it was born in swamps or paddy fields in midsummer.

It can be seen that in the hot summer, some yin-loving creatures began to appear, while positive creatures began to decline. When I first heard this statement, I was a little curious, but when I think about it carefully, although I don't quite understand the scientific principle, I have to admire its authenticity, unlike nonsense.

After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it "dividing fields in summer and rain". Often across a road, there will be a scene of rain after a calm, which has been described very vividly in ancient times.

Zhi Zhu Ci Liu Tang Yuxi

The willows in Jiang Shuiping are green, and the songs on the shore can be heard.

Rain in the east, sunrise in the east, said it was not sunny, but it was still sunny.

However, the heavy precipitation brought by this convective weather is not as beautiful as described in the poem, and it often brings local disasters. After the thunder and lightning, it rained cats and dogs, and pedestrians ran to escape. This is inevitable, and there are still some embarrassment.

Xu Shu's Letter in Summer Rain

In summer, sitting on the platform in summer, frogs sing cicadas and attack the dust.

The golden gong sounded like a thunderbolt, and the cold rain hit the face like money. "

For China, a country with a vast territory, the climate change is actually very different, and different places will have various proverbs to reflect local characteristics. However, it is the Song of Summer Solstice written on the elm beam in the main hall of a Wang Yu Temple in Laohe City, Hubei Province that best reflects the climate characteristics of most parts of China. The full text is as follows:

Summer solstice into the top nine, feather fan in hand; In 29 18, I took off my crown and put on a scarf; On March 27, I went out to sweat; Four, nine, thirty-six, open-air rolling seats; In 5945, autumn was like a tiger; 6954, enter the temple to enjoy the cool; 7963, touching the sheets at the bedside; 8972, looking for a quilt in the middle of the night; 998 1, open the cupboard to get cotton-padded clothes.

On the solstice of summer, despite the hot weather, people still have ceremonies to worship gods and ancestors. This is the time for wheat harvest. Since ancient times, people used to celebrate the harvest at this time and offer sacrifices to their ancestors in order to pray for a good year. Therefore, the summer solstice, as a festival, was included in the ancient ritual of offering sacrifices to the gods. "Zhou Li Chun Guan" contains: "With the arrival of summer, go to local things." In the Zhou dynasty, sacrifices were made to gods from summer solstice, which meant to eliminate famine, hunger and death. The solstice of summer is just after the wheat harvest. Farmers not only thank God for the bumper harvest, but also pray for the "autumn report". Some places will hold a grand "Summer Wheat Festival", which is also the relic of the ancient "Summer Wheat Festival" activities. However, with the rapid development of economy and the overall rise of urbanization, these customs that have lasted for thousands of years do not know how long they can last.

However, for foodies, no matter how fast they change, they still have to eat, so what do you eat on the summer solstice?

Eat noodles

The so-called winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles, since ancient times, in many areas of the south of the Yangtze River in summer solstice noodles has been an important custom. There is a saying among the people: "Eating noodles on the solstice will shorten the day". There are many kinds of noodles in the south, especially on the toppings, such as Yangchun noodles, fish soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, cross-bridge rice noodles and sesame oil cold noodles. In the north, more efforts are made on the noodles themselves, such as handmade noodles, Daoxiao Noodles, Lamian Noodles, etc., and the types of noodles will naturally increase. In addition, because new wheat has appeared in the summer solstice season, eating noodles in the summer solstice has some new meanings.

But in such hot weather, eating a bowl of cold noodles is the best enjoyment.

Since it's cold noodles, there must be noodles first, right? Now let's introduce the appearance of the protagonist. Soba noodles are cooked for free. Some treasures are available. It is recommended to choose merchants from Yanbei, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Waikou. After all, they are of origin and will taste better.

Buckwheat itself is nutritious, rich in protein and B vitamins; Minerals and rich plant fiber. Especially the traces of bitterness, it is a sharp weapon to dispel summer heat.

This noodle itself is cooked, just soak it in warm water for about 20 minutes, break it to see if there is any hard heart inside, and mix some cooking oil to prevent it from sticking.

The main ingredients are ready Naturally, the following are welcome supporting actors:

The chef said, there must be meat!

The method is very simple: a piece of chicken breast, cooking wine, onion, ginger and garlic, cooked, then shredded by hand, mixed with pepper powder, white pepper powder and salt for later use;

The chef also said: Be well trained! Red, green, green, good color!

Chef continued, enjoy it!

A few homemade marinated eggs

Some seaweed

A little shrimp skin

Sesame sauce is essential. Stir with water, neither too strong nor too weak, until it is just right!

Hot sauce is the soul of a bowl of good noodles, absolutely indispensable!

The most important thing is to make homemade sauce blindly, which is also the biggest secret of this bowl of cold noodles and other cold noodles.

The formula includes soy sauce, aged vinegar, rattan pepper oil, sesame oil, pepper oil, salt, sugar and oyster sauce. If you are in a good mood, you can also fry onion, ginger and garlic oil yourself. The taste can only be described by tut tut. As for the proportion of various ingredients, it depends entirely on personal taste. Add more salt if you want salty food, and more sugar if you want sweet food.

The finished product made a grand debut.

It is life to have such a bowl of cold noodles that combines the aura of Shan Ye, the freshness of rivers and seas, and the skillful hands of chefs. Living in the present is king!

The most important thing is here, cooking together, practice makes perfect, the key is to let go and concentrate. Take cold noodles as an example. The recipes I have tried include but are not limited to the following patterns:

Very tender scrambled eggs;

A box of canned tuna, preferably one soaked in soybean oil;

Crispy fried soybeans or peanuts;

Fish and lobster sauce in canned lobster sauce and shad;

Abies yunnanensis;

The best dried bamboo shoots are thoroughly dried, shredded and bitten, which is delicious;

Cut the pickled dried bean curd into thin strips;

Or stir-fry a plate of shredded pork yourself to match it is also excellent;

Boil water, simmer a plate of fresh clams and mix in. This is a more advanced game.

Summer solstice in Heshui Zuo.

The hot sun lingers in summer, which breeds cloudy summer in kuya.

Knowing that farming is hard, cicadas sit on idle branches and sing happily.

Summer solstice is always clear.

In the middle of the night, I was startled by the blue flag. When I woke up, it was Wen Yuan crow.

When did raccoons steal books several times? When did they hear about it?