The story about the origin of eating noodles from summer solstice

Why do we eat noodles on the solstice in summer? First of all, it is to get good colors. Secondly, it is also beneficial to people's healthy diet.

On the solstice of summer, there is a saying about eating noodles. Although summer solstice is not the hottest time in summer, it means that hot summer is coming. People began to change their diet from the solstice of summer, taking low-calorie, easy-to-make, cool food as the main diet, and noodles are usually the first choice for ordinary families. Therefore, the summer solstice is also called "subduction surface".

In the ancient summer solstice, people prayed for disaster and prosperity by offering sacrifices to God. "Zhou Li Chun Guan" contains: "With the arrival of summer, go to local things." Sacrificing to God in the summer solstice of the Zhou Dynasty means eliminating plague, famine and starvation. At this time, new folk wheat came out, and people sacrificed pasta to the gods. The custom of eating pasta from summer solstice has also spread to this day.

Because new wheat has appeared from summer to sun, eating noodles from summer to sun also means tasting new things. From the point of view of nutrition, it is the time for wheat harvest and new flour to go on the market from summer to around, and the nutritional components in fresh flour are high. In the past, people ate more noodles at this time, on the one hand, to celebrate the harvest, on the other hand, they could also absorb rich nutrition from noodles made of delicious new flour.

Wheat is sweet and cool, entering the heart, spleen and kidney meridians; Compendium of Materia Medica says that "wheat flour can tonify deficiency, strengthen skin, strengthen body, thicken stomach and strengthen tendons", and Compendium of Medical Forest says that it "relieves annoyance, stops bleeding, facilitates urination and moistens lung dryness". Some people like to eat hot noodles and sweat more in hot summer to get rid of the moisture and summer heat trapped in the human body.

In addition, symptoms such as nasal congestion, aversion to cold, headache and heavy body often appear after catching a cold in summer. Boil a bowl of hot noodles, add some scallion and pepper, and taste it while it is hot, which has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect.

There is another detail to pay attention to, noodles should be eaten, and the nutrition of soup should not be forgotten. Because a lot of B vitamins will be dissolved in the soup when noodles are cooked, don't forget to drink more soup when eating noodles.