What traditional food to eat at the beginning of summer

Traditional food eaten in the summer are: Lixia eggs, Lixia rice, Lixia fruit, Lixia tea, shrimp noodles.

1, Lixia eggs: every Lixia, people in the southern region of the Yangtze River have to eat boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, through the generations, and eventually became the custom of Lixia.

2, Lixia rice: the traditional Lixia rice is also five colors of beans plus rice made, with the improvement of living standards and the abundance of materials, and later became glutinous rice plus fresh broad beans, peas, spring bamboo shoots, amaranth and some other vegetables made to signify the meaning of the five grains of the meaning of abundance, quite a sense of ceremony.

3, Lixia fruit: Lixia fruit, also known as Lixia kuey teow, is the Yiyang area of Jiangxi Lixia festival food specialties. Lixia kuey teow is steamed rice, kneaded, rolled into small balls, add bean sprouts, dried beans, shrimp, peas and other ingredients together to cook Lixia kuey teow, also known as Lixia soup.

4, Lixia tea: ancient Lixia tea, also known as the seven tea, Lixia day, the new tea on the market, women to gather seven families of tea, **** with cooking and drinking.

5, shrimp noodles: in southern Fujian, there is a summer day to eat shrimp noodles custom. It is said to be due to the shrimp and summer of Minnan language homophonic, and shrimp cooked into an auspicious red, as an expression of good wishes.