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What should I eat in the twenty-four solar terms? Is there customs?

1, beginning of spring

Among the people, there are festivals and activities to celebrate the Spring Festival. In ancient China, beginning of spring put up spring stickers to offer sacrifices to the God of Spring. Japanese also have the custom of eating spring cakes, spring vegetables and biting radishes in beginning of spring.

Step 2 rain

At this time, the climate is cold, and honey, jujube, yam and tremella are all supplements suitable for this solar term. Every rainy day, the married daughter will go back to her parents' home with gifts.

3. Shocked

There is a folk custom of eating pears in shock; In ancient times, people would hold incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and musty smells at home, and gradually evolved into "beating villains" to drive away bad luck.

4. vernal equinox

On the vernal equinox, there is a folk custom of "laying eggs vertically", that is, choosing a smooth and symmetrical fresh egg and successfully standing on the table. In the Lingnan area of China, there is also the custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". The so-called "spring vegetables" are wild amaranth.

5. Qingming

On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people often go to the suburbs for a walk to sweep graves; In the folk, there is also the habit of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

6. Grain Rain

There is a custom of picking tea in Grain Rain in the south; There is a custom of eating Toona sinensis in Grain Rain in the north; In Baishui County, Shaanxi Province, there is a custom of Grain Rain offering sacrifices to Wenzu and Cang Xie, which has spread for thousands of years since the Han Dynasty.

7. Long summer

In the coastal areas of China, there is a folk custom of "breaking eggs" on the day of long summer. The children are in groups of three and five, playing the game of beating eggs with boiled eggs. When you beat eggs, the head of the egg hits the head of the egg and the tail of the egg hits the tail of the egg. Whoever breaks it loses.

8. Xiaoman

In the full season, the physiological activities of the human body are in a vigorous period, consuming a lot of nutrients. Therefore, soups with the functions of clearing heat and nourishing yin, eliminating dampness, warming stomach and warming up should be supplemented appropriately. On the day of Xiaoman, there are also customs of "grabbing water" and "offering sacrifices to car gods".

9. Miscanthus

On this day, people have the custom of "sending flowers to the gods" in their leisure and busy time. In the southeast of Guizhou, there is a mud war before and after mango seeds every year.

10, summer solstice

In the north, there is a saying that "the winter solstice is jiaozi's summer solstice", and people pay attention to eating noodles on the summer solstice; In Shaoxing, Zhejiang, there is a custom of worshipping ancestors from summer solstice; In Lingnan area, people eat dog meat and litchi on the solstice in summer.

1 1, Xiaoshu

Eating jiaozi on the head is a traditional custom in the north. In some places in Shandong, raw cucumbers and boiled eggs are eaten to cure the bitter summer. Xuzhou people like to eat mutton when they sleep; In Linyi, Shandong Province, there is also the custom of improving the diet of cattle.

12, great summer

In Taizhou Bay, Zhejiang Province, there is a custom of "sending a summer boat". To send a summer boat is to send away the plague and pray for peace.

13, beginning of autumn

Beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. Since the Republic of China, people have had the custom of predicting the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or at night. There is also the custom of tasting watermelon and green beans and offering sacrifices to ancestors; On the day before in beginning of autumn, people will eat Chen Bing melon, steamed eggplant and so on.

14, hot summer

In the summer around July 15th of the lunar calendar, there will be folk activities to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "July 30" or "Mid-Autumn Festival". In Taiwan Province Province, there is a custom of "worshipping good brothers".

15, Millennium

Every Millennium, the shore of Taihu Lake will hold a week-long ceremony to burn incense for Yu Wang. In Fuzhou, Fujian, there is a traditional custom of "eating longan for thousands of years"; In Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang, there has always been a custom of making wine, which is called "Bailu Rice Wine".

16, autumnal equinox

On the autumnal equinox, it is a traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival in modern society comes from the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. Put a big incense table with moon cakes, watermelons, apples, etc. Yue Bai prayed.

17, cold dew

Cold dew has pleasant solar terms, which is very suitable for mountain climbing. All the custom of climbing slowly on the Double Ninth Festival has also become the custom of the cold dew season.

18 first frost

In Xia Lei Town, China, there is a "Zhuang First first frost Festival".

19, beginning of winter

In some areas, beginning of winter has the custom of eating jiaozi; Since ancient times, people have celebrated the beginning of winter, which is called "Hedong". People in Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangxi and other places like to use winter swimming to welcome the arrival of winter.

20, xiaoxue

It is a traditional custom to eat Ciba when it snows lightly in the south of China.

2 1, heavy snow

Every household in Nanjing will be busy pickling "pickles" as soon as it arrives at the snow festival; At the same time, heavy snow is also a good time to "make up".

22. Solstice in winter

Winter solstice is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival to worship ancestors. There is a folk saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and the winter solstice is also called "off-year"; In northern China, there is usually a custom of eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter.

23, slight cold

Speaking of slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks rice, and "Nanjing vegetable rice" can even be compared with Laba porridge in the north; In the traditional customs of Guangzhou, glutinous rice is eaten on a cold morning.

24. Great cold

In the cold solar terms, there is a very important day for northerners-Laba, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people will cook a pot of sweet and delicious "Laba porridge".

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