What traditional foods do northerners eat in the summer solstice solar terms?

What traditional foods do northerners eat in the summer solstice solar terms?

Northerners like to eat noodles on the solstice in summer.

The proverb "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles" tells the unique diet of old Beijing in winter solstice and summer solstice.

Because the main crop in the northern part of the Yellow River Basin is wheat, when new wheat is harvested, it is the best way for people to make happy noodles with new noodles to celebrate the harvest.

Some people like to eat hot noodles in hot summer. In addition to hobbies, it is said that there is also the meaning of "evil". The ancients thought that the fifth month of the lunar calendar was an evil month, eating hot noodles was to drive away evil spirits, and sweating was to drive away moisture and summer heat in the human body.

On the day of summer solstice, cold noodles are commonly eaten in all parts of Shandong Province, commonly known as water crossing, and there is a proverb "winter solstice, summer solstice in jiaozi". Laiyang recommended new wheat from summer to sun, and Huangxian (now Longkou City) cooked new wheat grains.

Children weave a delicate hedge with wheat straw and scoop it into their mouths again and again in soup. It is not only a game but also a game, which is very interesting for farmers' life. In Pingyin area, ancestors sacrificed from summer to the sun.

Summer solstice agricultural activities

From summer to around, early rice heading and flowering in the south of Huaihe River, field water management should be fully water heading, wet irrigation, dry and wet, which not only meets the water demand of rice fruiting, but also can ventilate and nourish roots, ensure maturity and improve grain weight. As the saying goes, "Summer broadcasting does not allow noon", we should pay close attention to summer broadcasting, strengthen the management of broadcast content, and strive for full seedlings.

After the seedlings emerge, they should be spaced, fixed and transplanted in time to make up for the deficiency. During the summer solstice, all kinds of weeds in farmland grow as fast as crops. They not only compete with crops for water, fertilizer and sunlight, but also parasitize various germs and pests. Therefore, the agricultural proverb says, "If you don't hoe the roots and weeds in the summer solstice, it's like raising a poisonous snake to bite you." Grasping intertillage and hoeing is one of the important measures to increase production from summer solstice.

After the summer solstice, due to the vigorous growth of crops, the rapid growth and spread of weeds, pests and diseases, agricultural production in most parts of southern China entered the field management period, and the plateau pastoral areas began the golden season of flourishing grass, fertilizer and livestock. At this time, the rainfall in the western part of South China increased obviously, which gradually changed the distribution trend of rainfall in South China from the east to the east since the spring. If there is a summer drought, it is generally expected to be lifted at this time.

Meteorological changes in summer solstice

Temperature and precipitation:

After the summer solstice, although the direct point of the sun began to move south from the Tropic of Cancer, the days in the northern hemisphere began to shorten gradually, but the temperature will continue to rise for a while, because the heat radiated by the sun to the ground is still more than the heat radiated from the ground to the air, so there is a saying that the summer solstice is not too hot. As the saying goes, "it's a hot day in dog days", and the real hot day is from mid-July to mid-August on the Gregorian calendar.

In summer solstice, the direct sunlight reaches the northernmost part of the year, and the daytime is the longest in all parts of the northern hemisphere. During this period, the temperature in most parts of China was high, the sunshine was sufficient, the crops grew rapidly, and the physiological and ecological water demand was high. After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it "dividing fields in summer and rain".

Standing without a shadow;

On the day of summer solstice, the sun shines almost directly on the Tropic of Cancer, and absolutely (almost) directly at noon, so there will be a short-term phenomenon of "standing without a shadow" on the Tropic of Cancer. There are five signs of the Tropic of Cancer in Chinese mainland, which are located in Shantou, Conghua and Fengkai in Guangdong, Guiping in Guangxi and Mojiang in Yunnan. People living in the Tropic of Cancer and its vicinity to the south can set up a pole in the sun from summer to noon a few days before and after, and observe how the "immediate effect" becomes "without a trace".

Convective weather:

After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it "dividing fields in summer and rain". Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, skillfully used this weather to write a famous poem, "The east rises and the west falls, and the road is sunny and sunny." The heavy precipitation brought by convective weather is not always as beautiful as described in the poem, and it often brings local disasters.