What are the traditional customs of summer solar terms?

Eating sheep in summer is a traditional custom in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu in summer. After summer, just after the third summer, and before the autumn harvest, farmers who have been busy for half a year will eat summer sheep in groups of three or five households and seven or eight households. At this time, the little goat who grew up drinking mountain spring water has been eating grass for several months, and it is tender and fragrant. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a saying among the local people that "Yang Yi Bowl of Soup does not need a doctor to open it." Xuzhou people love to eat summer sheep, which is nothing more than a local folk song: "Pick up the girl on June 6, and make new wheat cake mutton soup."

On the day of the summer heat, people in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province have the habit of eating mutton, which is called "eating sheep". This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period, and there is a folk saying that "Pengcheng helps sheep with a bowl of soup without a doctor". People in Xuzhou love Fuyang, which is nothing more than a local folk song "Pick up girls on June 6th and make new wheat cake mutton soup".

Step 2 eat new things

Many folk places have the custom of "eating new things" in summer. Farmers will cook with new rice, worship the grain gods and ancestors, and pray for a bumper harvest after autumn. Then people happily taste new wine and so on. In some places, the newly harvested wheat is fried, then ground into flour and eaten with water and sugar. This way of eating, as early as the Han Dynasty, was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can "clear away heat and stop diarrhea and strengthen the intestines".

In the folk, people should taste new rice after the heat, which is the custom of "eating new" in the heat. In midsummer, farmers will grind the newly harvested rice into rice, and then cook the new rice into delicious rice to worship the five grain gods and ancestors. On this day, every household should eat new rice and taste new wine. It is said that "eating new things" means "eating new things", which is the first new day after the summer festival. People who live in the city will buy a small amount of new rice and newly listed vegetables and fruits in summer, and cook the new rice and old rice together at home. As the saying goes, there is also a saying that "millet is eaten in summer and whole grains are eaten in summer". China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, and summer is the season when everything grows, so there are the most delicious foods in this season.

Step 3 be quick

The fasting day of Miao nationality in Xiangxi is from the day before the summer heat to the day after the summer heat every year. During this period, chickens, ducks, fish, turtles, crabs and other things are fasting. It is said that eating by mistake will bring disaster, but pigs, beef and mutton can still be eaten.

4. Eat noodles

As the saying goes, "the summer heat is in the dog days", and it will enter the dog days after the summer heat. V means to hide, so people should go out less for the summer. In terms of diet, people will eat cool food to spend the hot summer.

When the wheat harvest in China was less than one month, every household in Man Cang had wheat. However, in dog days, people are listless and lose appetite, but jiaozi is a good food to satisfy their appetite. Therefore, people use newly ground flour to wrap jiaozi, or eat noodles made of new white flour. There is a saying that "jiaozi is wrapped on the head, rice cakes are wrapped on the face, and eggs are spread on the dog days". In Shandong, some places eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, and eat eggs in the rainy morning without eating other foods. According to research, the custom of eating noodles in Fukui appeared in the Three Kingdoms period.

5, Xiao Xia lick the cow

In Linyi, Shandong Province, people have the custom of improving the diet of cattle every summer. Furi cooks barley soup for cows. It is said that cows are strong and can work without sweating. "Spring bullwhip, licking Han Niu, Mairen soup, licking beef rice, licking cows without sweating, until June."

6. Eat lotus roots

In addition, there is the folk custom of eating lotus roots in summer. During Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, lotus root was designated as a royal tribute. Lotus root is homophonic with "even", so people eat lotus root to wish a happy marriage. Lotus root, like lotus flower, is not stained with mud, so it is also regarded as a symbol of pure and noble personality. Lotus root is rich in carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins, potassium and dietary fiber. It has the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing blood and relieving restlessness, and is suitable for eating in summer. Fresh lotus root is mashed with low fire, sliced and added with appropriate amount of honey, which can be eaten at will, has the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep, and can cure insomnia due to blood deficiency.