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What do you eat in the long summer in the north?

1, pasta:? Wheat is planted in northern China, and the long summer is the time when wheat appears. Therefore, most northern areas have the custom of making and eating pasta to celebrate the wheat harvest. The pasta in northern long summer mainly includes summer cakes, flour cakes, spring rolls and noodles.

2. black rice:? Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice, which is made by collecting the leaves of the wild plant Vaccinium bracteatum, boiling the glutinous rice in the cooked soup for a long time, and then taking it out and steaming it in a wooden steamer. Black rice is fragrant, and it will be cooked after soaking glutinous rice in black leaves for a few hours. Black rice was originally a folk food, which existed in the Tang Dynasty.

3. Amaranth: Amaranth is known as "aphrodisiac grass" and "intestinal grass". The history of Chinese chives used as medicine can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In spring with different temperatures, it is necessary to maintain the yang, and leeks are most suitable for human yang. Leek also contains nutrients such as protein, fat and multivitamins, and has the functions of invigorating stomach, refreshing and strengthening kidney. Leek in spring is delicious and nutritious.