Summer customs in various places

Chinese news network on May 5, comprehensive reports, every year on May 5 or 6, the sun reaches 45 ° yellow longitude for the "summer" festival. It heralds the change of seasons and is the beginning of the summer season according to the ancient lunar calendar. In ancient times, the beginning of summer was an important festival, there are many customs, and the customs are different from place to place, unique and interesting.

Customs of the summer

Fujian Mindong eat "light cake"

Fujian Mindong to eat "light cake" (flour baked with a little salt) based on the summer. Eastern Fujian Zhouning, Fu'an and other places will be light cake into the water soaked dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places will be light cake cut in half, will be fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, bad vegetables and other folder and eat it. Zhouning County, pure pool town, some villages to eat "summer paste", a pot of boiling paste soup, soup content is extremely rich, there are meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu and so on.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang eat "seven porridge" "taste three fresh"

Zhejiang rural areas in the summer must eat "seven porridge", also known as drink! "seven family tea". Seven family porridge is a collection of neighbors of each family's rice, plus various colors of beans and brown sugar, boiled into a large pot of porridge, by everyone to share food. Seven family tea is each family brought their own newly roasted tea leaves, mixed and cooked or brewed into a large pot of tea, and then by everyone to get together **** drink.

Suzhou place has a "summer see three new" proverb. "Three new" refers to the new ripe cherries, plums and wheat. At the same time, Suzhou summer to eat sea snails, gluten, white bamboo shoots, chestnuts, salted duck eggs, green fava beans, various hotels in the summer of the day into the store's old customers to offer wine, soju, do not take a penny, so also called the summer "feed festival.

Wuxi folk traditionally have "summer taste three fresh" custom. Three fresh points of the ground three fresh, tree three fresh, water three fresh. Ground three fresh beans, amaranth, cucumber; tree three fresh cherries, loquats, apricots; water three fresh sea snails, puffer fish, anchovies.

Hangzhou in the summer day to eat "wild summer rice" custom. On this day, the children in groups, to the neighboring families begging for rice, meat. Then go to the field to dig up wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, with stones set up pots and stoves, self-burning white food, known as eating "wild summer rice" or "summer rice". This custom is compared to beggars, that can avoid disaster. After eating rice, adults bring baskets, scales. To the children weigh, see how much heavier than last year.

Shanghai Lixia day to eat eggs. On the day of the summer, the children's neck always hang a red net set of eggs. Shanghai also has a "festival cross the summer to remember the points, eat the stall vegetables to test the treasure called." The custom, the day of summer to eat taro and cauliflower synthesized pancakes, at noon, no matter men and women, young and old to weigh.

Southern areas to eat bamboo shoots, acacia beans, "five-color rice"

Sichuan, Iwatan mountainous areas to eat bamboo shoots, acacia beans. Said to eat bamboo shoots foot bone hard, good climbing. Also eat green plums, burn green tea, in order to prevent "moth summer". There is also the custom of eating tofu, said to eat tofu is not afraid of rain, not afraid of red bee stings.

Some places in the South have a summer to eat soft vegetables (Jun Tap Choi) custom, said to eat the summer will not give birth to prickly heat, the skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables.

In some places such as Guangxi, with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice cooked into "five-color rice", known as the summer rice.

Most of the northern region to eat pasta

The summer of the custom of eating pasta, intended to celebrate the wheat harvest. There are three main types of pasta for summer: summer cake, noodle cake and spring rolls.