Long Summer Porridge, a Solar Food in Leiyang, Hunan Province

Long summer is the first solar term in summer, which means that the Xia Meng season has begun. In the long summer, the temperature often rises obviously, and thunderstorms also increase. During this season's exchange, people in Leiyang, Hunan Province are used to making long summer porridge to eat. Today's 24 solar terms will introduce this kind of solar food to you.

Long summer porridge is a traditional Han snack in Leiyang, Hunan. Folk food, which belongs to the long summer solar terms, has long been a must for Leiyang diet. Long summer is the season for transplanting rice seedlings, and farming is hard. Every household cooks long summer porridge to express their good wishes for a bumper harvest.

According to historical records, the custom of cooking long summer porridge began in Leiyang, Hunan Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Cooking long summer porridge pays attention to digging a hole on the spot at the end of the village street, installing a large iron pot and ordering porridge to make the smoke curl up, which is a veritable picnic.

The common ingredients of long summer porridge are rice tofu, glutinous rice balls, oily tofu, bamboo shoots, Toona sinensis seeds, peas, quail eggs, lean meat, pig offal and so on. In recent years, other wild vegetables, cold dishes and wine and meat have been added. In the long summer, Leiyang people like to sit around and talk about their families and make some jokes. All participants must drink a bowl of long summer porridge in order to get rich, get rid of diseases and eliminate disasters, and at the same time deepen the feelings between neighbors.

Several common long summer ridges

1, long summer healthy bean porridge

250 grams of japonica rice, white lentils 100 grams, appropriate amount of water, and boiled into porridge. Bean porridge has the functions of invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, harmonizing middle warmer, relieving summer heat and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for vomiting, diarrhea and anorexia caused by heatstroke in summer.

2, long summer health egg porridge

10 fresh frangipani, 60 grams of japonica rice, appropriate amount of water, * * * boiled into porridge. Eggplant porridge has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and moistening dryness. This porridge is a kind of health food with dual functions of medicine and food in China, especially suitable for children, and has good curative effect on dysentery, red and white dysentery and damp-heat diarrhea.

3, long summer health glutinous rice porridge

250g of round-grained rice, coix seed 100g, proper amount of water and * * * to make porridge. Coix seed porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen, removing arthralgia, promoting diuresis and removing dampness. It is suitable for anorexia, diarrhea, edema and flat wart.

4, long summer health lily porridge

50g of lily, 0/00g of japonica rice/kloc-0, 80g of rock sugar, proper amount of water, and boiled porridge. Lily porridge has the functions of moistening lung and relieving cough, nourishing heart and calming nerves, nourishing yin and clearing heat. It is suitable for senile chronic tracheitis, lung heat or lung dryness, dry cough, watery eyes, residual heat during fever recovery, mental trance, restlessness, neurasthenia, tuberculosis, climacteric syndrome, etc.