What does Chang Xia eat? Eating custom in long summer.

1, Wuxi long summer diet: the custom of tasting three delicacies.

Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, wheat, broad bean, amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout); Three fresh trees are cherry, loquat and apricot (one is plum, apricot and cherry, and the other is plum, cherry and toon head); The three kinds of fresh water are marine fish, puffer fish and shad (shad, shad and yellow croaker, as well as shad, whitebait and mackerel). Among them, tasting fresh land is the most common. In some places, there is a custom of eating moldy tofu in the long summer, saying that eating moldy tofu will not bring bad luck.

2. Suzhou changxia diet: see Sanxin.

"Sanxin" refers to newly matured cherries, plums and wheat. People worship their ancestors with the "Three Novelties" first, and then the living taste food. Sue Su Long also wants to eat Haisi, gluten, white bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse, salted duck eggs and green beans in summer. On this day, Chang Xia of each hotel presented fermented grains and shochu to the old customers who entered the store without any money, and called Chang Xia "Feed Festival".

3, Zhenjiang long summer diet: eight new tastes.

This "eight new" is cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, tender broad beans, radish, shad and grouper (yellow croaker). Among them, shad is the most precious. The first tidal shad was a tribute to the imperial court, and the second tidal shad was taken away by the rich to satisfy their greed. Ordinary people eat shad early, which is the shad after the third wave.

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4. The long summer diet in rural areas of eastern Zhejiang: Qijia porridge.

Farmers give beans and rice to each other in the neighborhood and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge". It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighbors live in harmony, and they are bent on going to Xia Geng for summer broadcasting. Every time Hangzhou people come to the long summer, they have to cook a new meal and prepare fruit cakes. They worship and give gifts to each other among relatives and neighbors, which is called "eating seven teas in the long summer".

Zhejiang Long Summer Diet: Folk Long Summer Diet Custom There is a folk song that says:

Green plum summer cake and cherry, bacon, river fish, black rice cake. Amaranth, salted duck eggs, roasted goose, broad bean wine.

The method of black rice cake is to knead the tender leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum, soak them in clear water, filter them, and steam them with glutinous rice flour, which is purple and fragrant.

5, Changsha long summer diet: long summer soup

In the past, farmers in Changsha thought it would rain in the long summer, otherwise it would be dry in summer and autumn. An agricultural proverb says: "It doesn't rain in the long summer, and the plowshares hang high"; It doesn't rain in the long summer, and shrimp and fine fish are cooked in one pot (unexpectedly, the pool water is dry). "

Early rice should have been planted in long summer. An agricultural proverb says, "Plant the sun in spring, and plant the sun in summer."