What does Hebei eat in summer from solstice?

Hebei eats cold noodles from summer to Sunday. There are two meanings. After the summer solstice, the weather is hot, so eating cold noodles can reduce fire and stimulate appetite. The solstice in summer is also the time to harvest wheat, and eating noodles symbolizes a new beginning.

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms, and it is also a traditional solar term in China. It has a history of thousands of years. As early as ancient times, there were customs and habits of worshipping gods and ancestors during the summer solstice. Developed to modern times, it is used to indicate that summer is over half.

Every summer solstice, the sun shines almost directly on the tropic of cancer, and the daytime in the northern hemisphere is the longest in the whole year. After the summer solstice, the direct point of the sun begins to move south from the Tropic of Cancer, and the daylight time in the northern hemisphere will gradually shorten.

Under normal circumstances, June 2nd1or 22nd of Gregorian calendar is the summer solstice. After the summer solstice, the weather became hotter and thunderstorms began to increase. The southern region will enter the rainy season, and many crops will begin to mature.

The customs of summer solstice:

Since the summer solstice coincides with the harvest of crops, there are customs of celebrating the harvest, offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for the harvest in the coming year. After modern development, this custom was gradually forgotten.

In terms of diet, the solstice in summer is also particular. People in the south of the Yangtze River will eat wheat jiaozi, summer solstice cakes, wonton and noodle soup. And they will give jiaozi wheat as a gift to others. Most areas eat noodles from summer to Sunday. There is a saying that "eating noodles from summer to Sunday shortens the day".