What do you eat during the solstice season in summer? What traditional food do you usually eat during the summer solstice solar term?

1, lettuce, cold noodles. There used to be a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles". According to the custom of old Beijing, lettuce and cold noodles can be eaten as early as the solstice of summer every year. Eating these raw and cold foods can effectively help reduce fire and stimulate appetite, but it will not damage your health because it is too cold. Therefore, whenever summer solstice comes, cold noodles and other foods begin to be sold.

2. Hot surface. Some people like to eat hot noodles in hot summer, which is called "picking pots". It is said to mean "evil". Eating hot noodles is to drive away evil spirits, and sweating more to drive away moisture and summer heat in the human body.

3. Summer solstice soup.

People in Changsha, Hunan, eat dumplings made of glutinous rice flour and mouse grass on the summer solstice, which is called "summer solstice soup". As the saying goes, "after eating the summer solstice soup, the muddy stone steps become pits." "Eat a ball and cross the river with one foot on the summer solstice" means that you are extremely powerful and as light as a swallow.

4. Summer solstice cake. After the summer harvest, new wheat comes on the market, so it is a custom to eat noodles and try new wheat every day. Some people mix them with wheat flour and spread them into pancakes for baking cooked food. With vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon, it is usually called "summer solstice cake" after ancestor worship.

5, pea cake. On the day of summer solstice, according to the custom of old Nanjing, adults let children sit on the threshold and eat pea cakes to prevent all diseases. The origin of this custom is because the weather is hot in summer, and people don't think much about diet, so let children eat pea cakes first to appetize. In addition, old Nanjing will eat several bowls of cold noodles and weigh themselves on the solstice in summer.

6. Eggs from summer solstice. Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi in southern Hunan eat eggs from summer solstice. On the summer solstice, the whole egg is cooked, peeled and cooked with red dates, which is called "eating summer solstice eggs". In southern Hunan, it is mainly Jiahe, Lanshan and Guiyang who get up in the morning of the summer solstice, cook the whole egg, dye the skin of the egg with red paper or red dye, put it in a small net bag and tie it on the chest of children until noon or afternoon, then peel off the eggshell and eat the egg. People think that eating eggs in summer solstice can strengthen the body, strengthen the stomach and keep pace. As the saying goes, "Eat eggs in summer solstice, and the slate is trampled."

7. New wheat. In some places in Shandong, it is a custom to cook new wheat grains on the solstice in summer. It is both a taste and a game for children to fish for new wheat grains in soup with a small hedge made of new wheat straw.

8.dog meat. Eating dog meat from summer solstice is mainly popular in Guangdong, China. There is a saying in Guangdong that "dogs have no way to go in summer", which is the custom of eating dog meat in summer. It is worth noting that dog meat is hot, and eating dog meat in summer solstice should be enough. Don't eat too much, so as not to cause discomfort such as getting angry.