In today's long summer, don't forget to eat these six traditional foods, which means auspicious, complete, safe and healthy summer.

The annual Long Summer Festival is coming again. Long summer is the seventh festival among the 24 solar terms in a year, which marks the official start of summer and the weather will gradually get hotter. Summer is the season with the worst appetite and the biggest consumption of physical function. "Sticking autumn fat", which is often circulated among the people, means that after experiencing physical exhaustion in summer, people should make use of eating big fish and meat to supplement their bodies and let themselves gain weight in autumn. Therefore, after the long summer, we must obey the laws of nature, eat in season, and eat more foods that can relieve summer heat and detoxify, which will be good for our health.

Therefore, in order to pray for peace, many traditional foods with auspicious, complete, safe and healthy meanings have been chosen and passed down from generation to generation. The traditional eating customs of long summer in all parts of the country have their own characteristics. I only picked out six of them for you. Let's see:

Eat long summer rice on the day of long summer. The so-called long summer rice, also known as "long summer five-color rice", as the name implies, is rice mixed with five-color ingredients. In fact, there are many versions of five-color rice today. For example, many families in Ningbo still retain the most traditional ancient style, cooking "five-color rice" with five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans. Another method is to use broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, etc. to make "five-color rice", and add pickles or bacon with rice. It is not difficult to see from the above formula that no matter what kind of five-color rice, the nutrition is very rich. Combining the tastes of various ingredients, it must be delicious, and it also represents good luck and perfection.

Eating long summer eggs on this day should be the most unified traditional food in all parts of the country, because many places have the custom of eating long summer eggs, which are cooked the day before long summer. The method of making long summer eggs is similar to our usual snack "tea eggs", but it is actually more complicated, because in addition to tea, there are walnut shells as accessories. Cooked long summer eggs are beautiful and delicious, red and delicious, which symbolizes a complete life and can stimulate the appetite in summer.

Drinking long summer tea in long summer is also a traditional custom in most parts of the country, especially in Jiangxi. According to folklore, if you drink long summer tea in long summer, you can spend the whole hot summer safely. If you don't drink long summer tea, this summer will be difficult. At the same time, the production and drinking of long summer tea are very different from our usual tea making and drinking. It requires no less than seven teas to be brewed together, and all people get together to drink. This is the real meaning of drinking long summer tea.

It is a traditional custom of Ningbo people to want to eat gentleman's food in the long summer. Because Clivia is a seasonal vegetable in long summer, it is said that people who eat this vegetable in long summer will not get prickly heat all summer, although the weather is very hot. Everyone knows that when it is hot in summer, it is easy to get prickly heat on your body if you don't take proper measures to cool down and avoid summer, and the more you scratch with your hands, the more itchy it is, which is very uncomfortable. Of course, whether eating gentlemen's dishes will lead to prickly heat may be just a folk wish to pray, so it is a traditional custom.

Eating foot bone bamboo shoots in long summer is only a unique custom of Ningbo locals, which is rare in other places. The shape of foot bone bamboo shoots is like our human foot bones. According to folklore, eating this kind of foot bone bamboo shoots in the long summer will make the foot bones healthy and strong. This kind of foot bone bamboo shoots is very particular about the practice and selection of materials. Not all bamboo shoots in our vegetable market can meet the requirements, but wild bamboo shoots or black bamboo shoots can be used to make foot bone bamboo shoots. When cooking, you should flatten the bamboo shoots with a knife and cut them into lengths of about 4 cm. The shape resembles our foot bones, so this is the origin of the name "foot bone bamboo shoots".

Drinking Qijia porridge in long summer is a traditional custom in many places in China, but it is more common in Zhejiang. Legend has it that Becco was drunk seven times in the long summer, and the rural neighborhood was in harmony, with no intrigue and no quarrel. Everyone puts their energy into summer sowing, and Xia Geng has a good harvest every year. The specific method is that neighbors who are not far apart each cook a pot of porridge, add a little beans, rice and brown sugar, which is vividly called "seven porridge", just like eating a pot of rice, symbolizing the unity and friendship between neighbors.

On the day of long summer, besides eating the above six kinds of traditional foods, there are actually many, because China has a vast territory, rich natural resources, a long history and culture, and many ethnic groups. As the saying goes, "a hundred miles is different from the wind, and a hundred miles is not popular", so the eating customs and habits of different places are different and have their own characteristics. But in any case, these excellent folk customs handed down from the older generation are worth carrying forward and never lost!