Summer Solstice playing a traditional Pingtan food

On the summer solstice, sales of hand-rolled noodles and fresh-cut noodles go up at noodle stores in neighborhoods. Ordinary people, more often than not, prefer to eat home-made hand-rolled and stretched noodles in summer.

Summer solstice noodles, the summer solstice in the fifth month of the lunar calendar (June 22 on the solar calendar), the sun reaches 90 ° of yellow longitude, is the longest day of the year. Folklore experts said that the summer solstice and the Spring Festival, the winter solstice, as belonging to the important Chinese folk festival, known as the summer solstice festival, the Zhou Dynasty has been sacrificed to the gods ceremony, that can eliminate the country's plague, the barren years and the people's hunger. Han Chinese custom, popular in most parts of the country.