The Origin of Lixia Festival and Traditional Cuisine

Lixia, the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms, is the first solar term of summer. Lixia cross section time for the annual calendar May 05-07, when the handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast, the sun's yellow longitude reaches 45 °. The following is the origin of the summer festival and traditional food I organized for you, I hope it can help you.

Origin of Lixia

Lixia this festival in the late Warring States period (239 BC) has been established, heralding the change of seasons, for the four seasons of the year of the day of the beginning of summer. According to climatological standards, the five-day average temperature reaches 22 ℃ before the beginning of summer. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the temperature at the beginning of summer is close to the climatological standard, and this area is the origin of the twenty-four solar terms. Thus, the twenty-four seasons of the summer festival as the beginning of the summer or in line with the actual situation.

Summer is the time when everything flourishes. Ming people "lotus eight killed and maimed" book wrote: "Meng summer day, heaven and earth began to intersect, all things and show." At this time, the summer crops into the late growth, winter wheat flowering and grouting, rape is close to maturity, the summer crop year is basically finalized, so the agricultural proverb has a "summer to see the summer" said. According to records, the Zhou Dynasty, the day of summer, the emperor to rate the civil and military officials to the outskirts of the "welcome to summer", and directs the Secretary and other officials to go around to encourage farmers to grasp the plow. The old custom of the summer and the traditional folk festival, called the "summer festival."

The Han Dynasty also inherited this custom, "Houhan Book - Sacrifice Zhi", "the day of summer to welcome the summer, in the southern suburbs, the sacrifice of the Red Emperor Zhu Rong, the car flag dress are red." Song "Zhu Ming", dance "cloud wing dance". To the Song Dynasty, the rituals are more complicated. In the Ming Dynasty, there was the "Tasting New Customs". Qing Dynasty, "the Imperial Capital Years and Years" in "summer to take the usual exposure of the rice flour spring buds, and fried with sugar as a variety of colors of fruit stacks, feed each other". And use willow branches to wear fruit stacks for children's food, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the custom of eating flower rice in the summer, also known as "eat complementary food". Folk custom is also "eat eggs in the summer, stones are trampled", said the summer to eat eggs and duck eggs can enhance the body, but also can withstand the summer heat. Some of the summer food bamboo shoots, some of the summer drinking, are rushed to the festival this day, the name is "summer to see the three new", the southern region of the old days when the summer day, the family steamed new tea, and with a variety of fruits, gifts to relatives and neighbors.

What traditional food to eat in the summer

1, Lixia rice

Lixia rice, in fact, to put it plainly, it is the five colors of beans plus round-grained rice boiled into five-color rice, because we are accustomed to eat in the day of Lixia, so it is also referred to as Lixia rice. Lixia rice contains a lot of beans, which is rich in nutrients, Lixia eat Lixia rice in the summer to herald a year of abundant grains, good health.

2, summer eggs

Eating eggs in the summer, not only can withstand the "Resistance and Resistance" test, but also bring success in life. Summer has the custom of eating eggs, can prevent the common summer day lack of appetite, body tiredness, limb weakness, emaciation and other bitter summer symptoms. Eggs, flat, fill the gas deficiency, have the function of tranquilizing the spirit and nourishing the heart.

3, summer tea

In order to meet the summer, China's Jiangxi area there is the custom of summer tea, said not to drink tea, will be a summer of suffering, in the summer of the day, the women to gather the seven tea, *** with the cooking and drinking, said that the summer drinking seven tea, you can ensure that the whole summer will not be sleepy.

4, Lixia jelly

Lixia day to eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup pills, the name "Lixia jelly". As the saying goes, "Eat the summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer to eat a group (sound tuo), a foot across the river". Before and after the summer often have a gale, the name "Dragon King Storm". Summer day hair east wind, commonly thought to have flooding, the proverb said "summer east wind and rain ripples". Summer day thunder, the future will be more thunderstorms, the proverb said "thunder hit the summer, three days to a".

5, Lixia porridge

Lixia season, Hunan Leiyang people in every household to boil Lixia porridge. Lixia congee is made of lean meat, vermicelli, glutinous rice balls, red dates, pig's mash, dried bamboo shoots, red dates, peas, bean sprouts and more than ten kinds of ingredients as accessories, adding rice to simmer into an aromatic congee.

6, Lixia fruit

Lixia fruit, also known as Lixia kuey teow, is a special food of the Lixia festival around Yiyang, Jiangxi. On the day of Lixia, every family will cook a big pot of Lixia kuey teow and eat it for the whole day. Lixia kuey teow is made of steamed rice, kneaded, rolled into small balls, and added with bean sprouts, dried beans, shrimp, peas and other ingredients to be cooked into "Lixia kuey teow", which is also known as "Lixia soup". Legend has it that eating Lixia Kuey Teow means sending spring to welcome summer, and the more varieties of Kuey Teow, the richer the spring harvest, and the more festive.

7, Jun Tap vegetable

Ningbo people also eat Jun Tap vegetable tradition in the summer, Jun Tap vegetable is a seasonal vegetable marketed before and after the summer, it is said to eat Jun Tap vegetable summer will not give birth to prickly heat, the skin will be like Jun Tap as smooth.

8, wheatworm

Summer Festival, Shanghai farmers in suburban counties to take wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strip of food, called wheatworms, people eat, said to be free of "Resistance and Resistance". With the summer of green grass and into the rice flour, fried into a cake, called "stall rice", for the people of Shanghai and the Pudong area people like to eat. Also sugar plums, wine, salted eggs, etc. as seasonal food, known as seasonal, take to taste mouth, said taste "three new".

9, Lixia Bun

Henan folk legend, eat Lixia Bun can prevent heat, summer in addition to disaster, or else it will be a bitter summer, raw Lai more disease. So every year in the summer, people will eat summer buns, in order to pray for the health of the family.

10, foot bone bamboo shoots

Eating foot bone bamboo shoots in summer is a unique custom in Ningbo. Not all the bamboo shoots sold in the market can be used to make foot bone bamboo shoots, the best is the wild mountain bamboo shoots or black bamboo shoots. People believe that eating foot bone bamboo shoots in the summer will make their foot bones strong, so this custom has been passed down.

11, summer cake

Summer cake, also known as hemp cake, different shapes, there is a scholar riding a horse, Guanyin send a son, monkeys holding peaches, etc., and the summer cake is often used for mothers to give their daughters who have been married. In the summer to eat summer cake, there is not sick summer, not thin summer said.

12, spring rolls

Spring rolls divided into two parts of the cake and vegetables, rolled vegetables of the cake must be freshly made hot pancakes, pay attention to the round, thin, slippery. Rolled out the cake must be gently smeared with a layer of oil on top, in order to not let the cake and the cake between the adhesion, while eating the texture is also more smooth, with a roll in the inside of the squeaky vegetables, a soft and a hard, first-class taste.

13, noodles

Summer season, the old Beijing preaching eating noodles, intended to celebrate the wheat harvest. There is a saying that the summer noodles are new to the sky. It implies that eating noodles in the summer can strengthen the body and bring good luck to people.

14, taste the three fresh

Wuxi folk traditionally taste the custom of three fresh in the summer. Three fresh is divided into ground three fresh, tree three fresh and water three fresh. Ground three fresh refers to cucumbers, amaranth, broad beans; tree three fresh refers to cherries, loquats, apricots; water three fresh refers to snails, anchovies, blowfish.

15, Dingbian paste

At the beginning of summer, Fuzhou people have to eat Dingbian paste (also known as pot side paste), is to use the rice paste shabu-shabu pot side, and then add shrimp, fungus, amaranth, mushrooms, clams and other flavors made of snacks. It is also known as "do xia".

Summer dietary considerations

1, avoid over-eating cold

Summer heat, people especially like to eat cold food, but often ignore the cold drinks and cold food hygiene can easily cause gastrointestinal diseases. The elderly, children, should pay special attention to the reasonable combination of meals, good and appropriate. Eat some easily digestible cold food. Summer vegetables raw food is a lot of people's good recipes, but can not just try to crave and eat more, otherwise it is easy to lead to indigestion, causing gastrointestinal dysfunction (such as bloating, diarrhea, etc.)

The summer heat when the head, vegetables eaten raw does have a great temptation to cook can be used to soak in boiling water, and then eaten cold (such as celery, spinach, white bean curd, etc.). In doing cold dishes can add some vinegar, ginger, salt and other ingredients, vinegar can detoxify, can promote digestion, ginger can dispel cold, can also promote digestion. Do cold food, do not use lard, should not use tea seed oil, vegetable oil, to hemp oil is better. Summer food is prone to corruption and deterioration, vegetables must be washed, pick off the withered yellow, insect points, pay special attention to the summer dietary hygiene.

2, avoid overfilling

can overeat is not too full, especially dinner should not be full. Proverb: "Eat less, live to ninety-nine." The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine? Su Wen" pointed out that: "diet has section", "do not make over the". Elderly people, children's digestion was not strong, summer is worse, eat too much, can not be digested, easy to make the spleen and stomach damage, resulting in gastric disease. If you eat eighty percent full, the appetite will continue to increase.

3, avoid "fruity"

A large number of summer seasonal fruits on the market, coupled with the hot weather, loss of appetite, many people like to eat more fruit to supplement nutrition. A lot of women who love beauty are convinced that "three fruits a day, repair the body to maintain the face of the two", or simply use fruit to replace the diet. However, this practice is not desirable, in the summer especially to pay attention to dietary supplements.

Eating fruit can take a lot of vitamins and water, but can not ignore the balanced intake of other nutrients, therefore, eat fruit to moderation. The basic nutrients needed by the human body are carbohydrates, minerals, proteins, amino acids, etc., but only by eating fruit can not meet the demand for these nutrients. If the diet of long-term "fruit", it will be on the human endocrine system, digestive system, immune system, etc. will have a negative impact, and will cause the body nutritional imbalance.

Before eating fruit, it is important to sterilize and clean. However, grapes, strawberries, prunes, etc. often residual pesticides or bacteria in the skin, if cleaning is not clean or accidentally eat poisonous fruits, there will be a headache and dizziness, nausea and vomiting, and in severe cases, salivation, diarrhea and other symptoms. When eating fruit, cleanliness is very important, it is good to put it in the water to soak for an hour (should not use detergent or disinfectant to clean the fruit).

Summer body consumption is particularly large, for some special groups, more attention is needed when eating fruit. Pregnant women in the choice of fruit, should avoid eating "cold fruit" (such as frozen watermelon), otherwise it will stimulate the stomach and intestines leading to diarrhea, easy to trigger premature birth. Folk have "a lychee three fire", lychee belongs to the warm food, eat more easy to "fire", will lead to constipation, toothache, facial scabies, mouth ulcers and other diseases. Therefore, in the choice of fruit, should be based on their own situation to eat.

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