What does Hunan eat on the solstice in summer?

Hunan eats traditional foods from summer solstice, such as eggs and soup. Different foods have different meanings, which is a traditional custom handed down from ancient times.

Summer eggs are a custom in Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi, Hunan. After the eggs are cooked in the morning, they are dyed red with red paper, then put in a small net bag and hung on the child's chest for lunch or afternoon.

People in Changsha will eat Summer Solstice Soup, which is a soup pill made of glutinous rice flour and Arnebia euchroma. There is also a saying that "I ate the summer solstice soup and went into the pit on the stone steps", which is an infinite metaphor.

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms and a very important festival. Different regions have different customs and habits. There is a tradition of eating cold noodles, summer solstice cakes, new wheat and other foods in the northern region. Nanjing eats pea cakes and Wuxi eats wonton porridge.

Although the customs are different, the moral is good. June 20th, 265438 or June 20th and 22nd is the summer solstice, which means that the hot summer has arrived. On this day, the daytime in the northern hemisphere reaches the longest in the whole year, and then gradually decreases.

After the summer solstice, the temperature will gradually rise, there will be a lot of high temperature weather, and the rainfall will gradually increase. If there is a typhoon, there will be heavy rain in the coastal areas. Even in the season without typhoon, there will be rainy weather, which will increase the air humidity and become very humid.