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Why does Chang Xia eat bowls and cakes? Why does Chang Xia eat bowls and cakes?

1, Long Summer is one of the traditional 24 solar terms in China, which means that the arrival of summer is the time to change seasons. There is a saying that Chang Xia eats eggs, and it is not summer when it is hot. Eating eggs on the same day in the long summer is also a prayer for children's health, praying that children will not get heatstroke.

2. The long summer is approaching, and Fuzhou has the custom of eating bowls and cakes on this day. Just because summer is coming, the summer temperature in Fuzhou is very high, and people are prone to loss of appetite and weight loss. In order to keep in good condition, people will eat some tonic food on the day of long summer. Of course, in addition to nourishing the body, I also pinned my hope for a better life.

In the long summer, it is popular in Fuzhou to eat diced food while cooking. Fixed-edge paste (also called pot-edge paste) is made of rice paste in a pot, with shrimp, shrimp oil, onion, lily, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of seafood clear soup such as mushrooms and dried clams. It tastes extremely delicious. Anyone who grows up in Fuzhou or lives in Fuzhou for a long time loves to eat it. It has become a famous flavor snack and a special symbol of Fuzhou. Fuzhou people who have left their hometown to live abroad, listening to the word Dingbian paste in a foreign country, seem to see the beautiful image of their hometown and become a flavor snack that loves their ancestors and their hometown.