What to eat during the 24 solar terms

The food corresponding to the 24 solar terms is as follows:

Lichun, commonly known as "playing spring", it is customary to eat radish, ginger, green onion and flour cake on this day, known as "biting the spring"; Lichun still has its own food, mainly spring pancakes, radish, five spice boards, etc., and spring rolls are very popular in the south, while spring rolls are very popular in the south. The Spring Festival still has its own food, mainly spring pancakes, radish, five spice plate, etc., while spring rolls are popular in the south.

In the old custom of raining in the north, the people have to eat noodles, spring cakes, popcorn and so on. On this day. Different regions have different foods, but most of them are related to dragons. General food names are added to the "dragon" title, such as dumplings called "dragon ear"; eating noodles called eating "dragon beard"; eating rice called "dragon's son

"Rain Festival, back to the mother's home" is a popular holiday custom in western Sichuan. At this time, married daughters go home to visit their parents. A typical gift is called "canned meat", which is pig's trotters, snow peas and kelp stewed in a casserole, then sealed with red paper and red rope, and given to the parents as a token of gratitude and respect for their parental upbringing.

Hibernation, in ancient times, on the day of hibernation, people would smoke the four corners of the house with incense and mugwort.

The festival hibernation when the first warmth is still cold, the climate is dry. Because pears are good for quenching thirst, people have the custom of eating pears when they are hibernated. In some areas of Shandong Province, people burn pancakes on a stove in the yard on Easter; in Shaanxi, some areas eat fried bean curd after being stung; and in Yanbei, Shanxi Province, farmers eat pears on hibernation days, which means saying goodbye to pests.

Spring equinox, "spring equinox eat spring vegetables" old folk custom, spring vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, also known as artemisia. The custom of viewing cows and sacrificing birds is popular in the south of the Yangtze River.

According to the old Beijing custom, in order to avoid evil spirits and pray for good luck, we should roll on a donkey on the spring equinox. The donkey roll has an extraordinary origin. Its processing materials alone, including rhubarb rice flour, soybeans, red bean paste, sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon, green and red threads, and melon seeds, are enough to fulfill the requirements of the Nutritional Dietary Guidelines for ingredient diversity. Its production is divided into three steps: making the blank, mixing the filling and molding. The cooked "donkey rolls" are covered with bean flour, golden yellow in color, sweet with bean aroma, soft in the mouth and unique in flavor. It is a delicacy for young and old alike.

Ching Ming, Qingming Festival, Jiangnan belt to eat green dumplings custom. Green dumplings are made from a wild plant called "pulp wheat grass" mashed and squeezed out of the juice. The juice is then taken and kneaded together with dry, pure glutinous rice flour, and the dumplings are wrapped. Prickly heat (the ancient name for cold utensils) is eaten in both the north and south of the country.

Because of the combination of the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival, some places still maintain the custom of eating cold food on the Qingming Festival. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cold cakes; Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice.

Guyu, for fishermen, the Guyu Festival is a folkloric custom to worship the sea. According to the custom of picking tea in the south of Guyu, legend has it that drinking tea on this day of Guyu can clear fire and ward off evil spirits, and brighten the eyes. So no matter what the weather under the valley rain, people will go to the tea mountain to pick some new tea to drink.

The northern rain has eaten the custom of toon. Toon tree in the valley rain before and after the germination, at this time the toon mellow and refreshing, high nutritional value. It is said that before the rain, the toon is as tender as silk. Toon eating has been more than a thousand years of history, the Han Dynasty has spread throughout the country, dignitaries, civil officials can enjoy.

In the old countryside of Changxia, red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-colored beans were mixed with white round-grained rice to make "five-colored rice," which later evolved into glutinous rice boiled with Japanese bean meat and amaranth and yellow fish soup, called "Changxia rice.

Eggs boiled in black tea or walnut shells are called "Jangha eggs" and fed to each other. Egg covers are woven with colorful threads and hung on children's chests or curtains. Children usually play a game of "Jangha Egg" in which they win by hitting the egg shells firmly without breaking them. As the saying goes, "If there is an egg on the chest of Jangha, the child will not be allowed to have Jangha." There are also colorful silk ropes for children called "jangha ropes".

Zhou Shu Xiaoman: Bitter vegetable show on Xiaoman day. Bitter cabbage is one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Materia Medica: (embrace stem small endive) long-term service, peace of mind to nourish the qi, light body anti-aging. In medicine, hold stem small endive used to treat fever, the ancients used it to sober up.

Ningxia people like to cook bitter vegetables, cold, with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste mix, cool, spicy, eat steamed buns and rice, greatly increasing one's appetite. Yellow rice soup can also be used to pickle bitter herbs into a yellow color, which is sweet and sour, crisp and refreshing to eat. Some people also use boiling water to simmer bitter herbs and squeeze out the bitter juice, which is used to make soup, stuffing, stir-frying and cooking noodles, each with its own flavor.

Mango refers to the ripening of mango crops such as wheat. The custom of worshipping the god of flowers on the mango festival. There is the custom of cooking plums during the mango season, a custom that has existed since the Xia Dynasty. Plums are cooked in many ways. The simple one is to boil them in sugar or mix them well with dried plums to let the juice of the plums leach out. It is also useful to cook them in salt or mix them well with dried plums to leach the juice. Even more elegant is to add shiso to them.

Plums produced in northern China are very famous. When it is cooked with licorice, hawthorn and rock sugar, sour plum soup is the best summer product.

Summer Solstice, "Winter Solstice Jiaozi Summer Solstice Noodles", delicious Beijingers talk about eating noodles on the summer solstice, which has the longest sunshine, so Shaoxing, China, has a slang expression "good fun, good fun on the summer solstice". In the old days, people, rich or poor, would worship their ancestors in the summer, commonly known as the "line summer solstice".

In addition to the usual offerings, a special plate of Pusi cake was added. At that time, after the summer harvest, new wheat came on the market. Because of the custom of eating noodles on that day, there is a "winter solstice summer solstice wonton noodles" proverb. There is also a wheat paste, that is, the wheat paste and wheat flour mixed, spread up to make pancakes baked, but also tasted a little novelty.

Summer, in the past, the folk have "eat new rice" custom, that is, after the summer heat, farmers will be newly cut into rice grinding, cooking a meal for the gods and ancestors worship, and then we taste new wine. It is said that "Eat something new" means "Eat something new," and it is the first new day after the summer festival. In general, the city buys a small amount of new rice and cooks it with old rice and newly released vegetables. So there is a folk saying, summer eating millet, summer eating grains.

In the hot summer, Chinese folk have tea, sun ginger, burn incense, drink mutton soup custom.

The twenty-four solar terms say, "It is a hot summer, in the middle of June. Summer, summer, divided into small and large, small at the beginning of the month, large in the middle of the month, and now it is still hot." Its climate is characterized by:

"Sinus refers to C as the great summer, S weather is much stronger than the small summer, hence the name.

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of eating Xiancao in the summer heat. Xiancao, also known as fairy grass and immortal grass, is an important medicinal and food plant resource, known for its miraculous efficacy in relieving summer heat. After drying the stems and leaves in the sun, it can be made into Xiancao, which is known as Liangfen (凉粉) in Guangdong, a dessert to beat the summer heat. In northern China, the custom of eating noodles, dumplings, eggs, etc. It is popular during the hot summer months.

In the early fall, folk have the custom of predicting the hot and cold weather in the early fall. There is a folk proverb:Plant eggplant in long summer, eat eggplant in the fall. Early fall is a good time to eat eggplant. Autumn put melon, steamed eggplant preserved, fragrant glutinous soup and so on. Dry them in the yard overnight the day before and eat them in early fall.

After a painful summer, people tend to lose a little weight. With the autumn wind, their appetites are whetted, and they want to eat something good and replenish their nutrients to make up for the summer losses. People in the north call it "sticking to the autumn fat".

The custom of making herbal tea in the summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. In the summer, every family has the habit of frying herbal tea. First go to the pharmacy to prepare a prescription, and then at home to decoct tea to drink, that is, to eat some of the "bitter" of autumn; in addition, the old Fuzhou in the height of summer to eat another kind of food is the white meatballs; Nanjing people's traditional dietary practices in the "summer" to eat duck.

Duck, especially in Nanjing Jiangning Hushu District is the most popular. It is said that the duck there is sweet and cool, and both fat and thin are suitable. If you don't have time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; those who have time will be stewed at home "turnip duck pot" or do "braised duck pieces" to neighbors. As the saying goes, if you give away ducks in summer, no one will get sick.

In Bailu, Southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang old Nanjing has brewed Bailu rice wine custom. In the old days, the millennium to the rural areas around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, home brewing for guests, and people often bring a thousand years of rice wine into the city.

Hunan Bailu has the custom of drinking rice wine. Every year at the Bailuyuan Festival, families treat their guests to Bailuyuan rice wine, known as "local wine," which is sweet and warm, perfect for fall. Bai Lu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, and is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bai Lu Rice Wine".

Fuzhou people have a long custom of eating cinnamon balls at Bai Lu, which are considered to be very tonic. Suzhou will eat some pomegranate, ginkgo, pear and so on. Nourish Yin and moisturize the lungs; I would also eat some eel (eel). This time of the year, the eel is the most fertile, but also the best time to taste. So Suzhou has "egrets eel head frost crab" said; folk Bai Luyuan that, throughout the year to eat sweet potato silk and sweet potato silk after eating sweet potatoes can prevent stomach acid, so the old farmers in the Bai Luyuan Festival to eat sweet potatoes is customary.

Lingnan region in the fall. In the past, on the day of the autumn equinox, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables, a kind of wild amaranth. The picked autumn vegetables were usually "rolled in soup" with slices of fish, called "autumn soup". In Nanjing, it is popular to eat "osmanthus duck", using ordinary salt water duck, flavored with osmanthus.

The cold dew is close to the Chongyang Festival, chrysanthemums bloom. In order to get rid of autumn dryness, some regions have the custom of drinking "chrysanthemum wine". Another major custom of cold dew is to eat crabs. Ancient poetry: "September navel October tip, claw drinking chrysanthemum."

The folk also have "nine women and ten men" proverb. Crab meat is tender, delicious flavor, is a first-class precious aquatic products." Autumn walnut white dew pear, cold dew persimmon red skin." Soft persimmons do not ripen until fall, so Hanlu people also have the habit of eating persimmons.

On the day of the first frost, many regions in China have the custom of eating persimmons. In the opinion of the local people, it not only protects from the cold and keeps you warm, but also strengthens your muscles and bones. It is a very good food for the first frost. There are also many customs for first frost, and Yunnan and Guangxi have first frost festivals. The Zhuang people talk about eating soup dumplings, killing ducks, sacrificing ancestors, singing songs and celebrating the harvest.

At the time of the first frost, chrysanthemums bloom. At this time, people also hold chrysanthemum meetings to express their love and reverence for chrysanthemums.

Lidong, commonly known as "over winter" in Minzhong, means "over winter". In the Chaoshan region of Fujian, we eat sugar cane and fried fragrant rice in the winter. In Shantou, people eat fragrant rice made of lotus seeds, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimps and carrots in early winter. These are warm foods. In the north, the custom in early winter is to eat dumplings because they look like ears. It is believed that if you eat them, your ears won't get cold in winter.

The custom of "pickling in the winter and saving for the winter" is practiced during the snowy season. After the snow, the temperature plummets and the weather becomes dry, which is a good time to process bacon. After the Snow Festival, some farmers start making sausages and bacon and wait until the Spring Festival to enjoy the flavor. In northern China, most people eat mutton hot pot during the Little Snow season. In some parts of the south, there is also a custom of eating bazan in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

Daxue, as the saying goes, "small snow pickles, big snow bacon". In the old days, every snow festival, in some parts of Nanjing, families began to prepare bacon, called "salted goods".

Add star anise, cinnamon, pepper and sugar. Put it into a large salted pot and stir-fry. After the fried pepper salt cools completely, apply it to the inside and outside of the fish, meat, and light fowl, and rub it repeatedly until the color of the meat turns from fresh to dark and the surface oozes liquid. Then put the meat and the rest of the salt into a jar, press it down with a stone, and put it in a cool, back-lit place. Remove after half a month and add water to boil the marinade.

Skimming off the floating foam, the dried poultry meat is put into the jar, layer by layer, and poured into the brine, then pressed against a large stone, and then taken out after ten days and hung under the eaves of the rising sun to dry (Qiu Bingjun: The Twenty-Fourth Season of the Chinese People).

As for the northern peoples, this time of year is already quite cold. For example, there is a saying in Baotou that says "kill a pig in light snow, kill a sheep in heavy snow". When the snowy season arrives, it's time to kill pigs and prepare for the New Year. At this time, no matter who kills the animals, relatives and friends will come over to help, and the host will prepare food, wine and side dishes for dinner. That's why the light and heavy snow seasons are a time for family members and friends to catch up and connect.

The winter solstice is considered a big holiday. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as the year and there are customs to celebrate it. In northern regions, there are customs of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and wontons on the winter solstice, while in southern regions, there are customs of eating soup dumplings and long noodles on the day of the winter solstice.

The winter solstice is celebrated in Suzhou and Wu, which is a legacy of the Zhou Dynasty legislation, which took the night of the winter solstice as the end of the year, so the winter solstice is the New Year. Suzhou people have a lot of food habits during the winter solstice, such as the elegantly named "reunion rice", such as egg dumplings, bean sprouts, vermicelli, gold chains, fish and so on.

Eating soup dumplings on the winter solstice, also known as "winter solstice dumplings," is especially popular in Jiangnan. According to historical records, this custom existed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the past, Shanghai people pay most attention to eat soup dumplings. The word "round" means "complete" and "reunion", symbolizing family harmony and good fortune.

Small cold, every small cold festival, dietary "small cold" festival in an important folk custom is to eat Lapa congee. Yanjing Chronicles" records: "Laha congee with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, rhombus, red cowpeas, peeled jujube puree and other boiled. , and externally dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar, and soso grapes." After the cold Lapa congee is also eaten on Lapa Festival, and then the flavor of the year is getting stronger and stronger.

There are many customs in the cold season, such as glutinous rice, Lapa congee, rice and soybean sprouts. According to "Jinmen Miscellany", there was a custom of eating soybean sprouts with slight cold in Tianjin in the old days. Soybean sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin and are made from cabbage sprouts. After the winter solstice, cut off the stems and leaves of the cabbage, leaving only the heart of the cabbage, about two inches from the ground, covered with fertilizer, airtight, and eaten after half a month. It is crisp and tender.

The Han Chinese have different dietary customs, such as the old Beijing to eat "cold cake", Guangdong to eat glutinous rice, Nanjing to eat chicken soup, Anhui to eat fried spring rolls. During the cold season, people are busy removing old decorations, pickling New Year's dishes and preparing New Year's goods, as the most important Chinese festival, the Spring Festival, is just around the corner. During this period, people in the north have a very important day - Lapa, or the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.

On this day, people simmer a pot of sweet and savory Laha congee with grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates and lotus seeds, which is an indispensable staple food for the New Year.