Do you eat eggs in long summer or solstice in summer?

In fact, there is a custom of eating eggs in both the long summer and the summer solstice, because eating eggs in hot weather can nourish the heart, and people often lose their appetite and gradually lose weight because of "bitter summer", and eggs are nutritious and can provide enough energy for the human body.

Generally speaking, May 5th or 6th every year is the long summer of the lunar calendar. "The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long summer, so everything grows longer than this, so it is named long summer." Long summer means that summer bid farewell to the beginning of spring. People used to regard the long summer when the temperature began to rise obviously, thunderstorms gradually increased and crops entered the peak season as an important solar term. The summer solstice falls on June 2 1 or 22 every year, which means that the summer heat is coming, with the longest day and the shortest night.

In fact, people eat more eggs in the long summer, because April in the lunar calendar is the peak time for chickens to lay eggs. There is also a saying that "eggs in April are as cheap as vegetables". People will put the eggs they can't finish into the leftover "seven-fen tea" and cook them into tea eggs. People constantly improve their cooking methods, adding fennel, Jiang Mo, cinnamon, star anise and other spices to tea, so that tea eggs no longer come from the long summer.

Of course, during the summer solstice, some areas will also eat summer solstice eggs, such as Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi in southern Hunan. On the solstice of summer, you will boil eggs and add red dates to cook soup, which is called "eating summer solstice eggs".