What to eat in the summer

To eat "five-color rice" in the summer, also known as the summer rice. Traditional summer rice ingredients include red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, green beans, etc. In the old days, the Ningbo countryside would use red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, green beans and so on. In the old days, during the summer festival, Ningbo countryside would use red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans, mixed with white round-grained rice to cook into "five-color rice". Ningbo city and countryside part of the family has remained in this ancient style, but later the material of the summer rice was changed to another five kinds of food, respectively, broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, plus soy sauce meat or salted meat, also known as five kinds of rice.

Lixia rice is a traditional food in the south of China during the Lixia Festival, and is more popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, first spreading from the Ningbo countryside. The traditional Lixia rice is made of five kinds of ingredients into five colors of rice, common Lixia rice is used red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five colors of beans mixed with white round-grained rice cooked into "five colors of rice", not only with the color is good to look at, but also has the symbolism of the five grains of the rich and prosperous. Because many kinds of things to join together to cook, seem particularly rich, so in the summer festival to eat five-color rice, there is the meaning of the year to the end of the body healthy.