Ingredients for traditional Beginning of Summer rice

The ingredients of traditional Beginning of Summer rice include adzuki beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, mung beans, etc.

During the Beginning of Summer Festival in the old days, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, and mung beans were mixed with white japonica rice to cook "five-color rice" in Ningbo countryside, also known as Beginning of Summer Rice.

Nowadays, some families in urban and rural areas of Ningbo still retain this ancient custom, but the ingredients of Beginning of Summer rice have been changed to five other foods, namely broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, plus soy sauce or bacon, which is called five kinds of rice.

Beginning of Summer rice is a traditional food in the south during the Beginning of Summer. It is popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was first spread in the countryside of Ningbo.

The traditional Beginning of Summer rice uses five ingredients to make five-color rice. The common Beginning of Summer rice is made of red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans mixed with white japonica rice to make "five-color rice". It not only has beautiful colors, but also has five grains.

The meaning of abundance.

Because many kinds of things are cooked together, it looks particularly rich. Therefore, eating five-color rice during the Beginning of Summer also means good health all year round.