1, eggs. Eating eggs in the long summer can not only stand the test of "summer", but also bring a complete life. There is a custom of eating eggs in long summer, which can prevent common symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation in summer. Eggs have the effect of calming the nerves and nourishing the heart.
2. Long summer tea. In order to welcome the long summer, China and Jiangxi also have the custom of drinking tea in the long summer. It is said that if you don't drink long summer tea, you will suffer all summer. On the day of long summer, women will gather seven kinds of tea and cook together, saying that drinking seven kinds of tea in long summer can ensure that you will not feel sleepy all summer.
3. Long Summer Soup: a soup pill made of glutinous rice flour mixed with rat grass in summer, named "Long Summer Soup". As the saying goes, "Eat the soup in the long summer, and the crushed stone will be trampled into a pit", "Eat a ball in the long summer and cross the river with one foot". There is often a strong wind around long summer, which is called "Dragon King Storm". In summer, when the east wind blows, it is generally believed that there will be floods. As the saying goes, "long summer brings east storms." When it thunders in summer, there will be more thunderstorms in the future As the saying goes, "It thunders every three days in the long summer".
4. Junta cuisine: Junta cuisine is a seasonal vegetable, which is listed in the long summer. It is said that after eating Junda cuisine, you will not get prickly heat in summer, and your skin will be as smooth as Junda.
7. Seven porridge: There is a custom of eating "seven porridge" in the long summer. Farmers give beans and rice to each other in the neighborhood and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge". Eating this porridge represents harmony in the neighborhood, and it was Qi Xin who cooperated to sow in summer in Xia Geng.
6. Long summer rice. In the old Long Summer Festival, red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and other five-color beans were mixed with white rice to make "five-color rice", which was called long summer rice. At present, some families in urban and rural areas in Ningbo still retain this ancient style, but the ingredients of long summer rice have been replaced by five other foods: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, and bacon or bacon, which is called five kinds of rice.
7. Black rice. Black rice is made by squeezing black rice leaves and soaking glutinous rice in steamed rice. It is said that eating black rice in long summer will not lead to summer, but can dispel wind and detoxify and prevent mosquito bites.
8. Black rice cake. Black rice cake is also one of the traditional snacks in long summer, but it doesn't mean black rice that is usually eaten. Secondly, the black rice leaves are mashed and soaked in water, and the glutinous rice is soaked in the black rice leaf juice to dye it black. After the soaked black glutinous rice is steamed with sugar, it is pressed into glutinous rice cake by hand.
9, three fresh. There is a jingle, taste three flavors and grow in summer. Three chords are generally divided into "three chords of the earth", "three chords of the tree" and "three chords of the water". Three kinds of fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber. There are few cherries, loquats and apricots on the tree. The three delicacies are conch, yellow croaker and shad.
10, light cake. There is a tradition of eating "light cakes" in the long summer. Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and put the fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and waste vegetables in it to eat together.
1 1, changxia steamed buns. Eating long summer steamed bread can prevent heatstroke, relieve summer heat and eliminate disasters. During the Spring Festival, every household should leave a few steamed buns and hang them outside the high wall to dry, so as to prepare for the long summer steamed buns. On the day of long summer, soak the dried steamed bread left over from the Chinese New Year in water, squeeze out the water, add flour, mix it with eggs and leeks, stir it into a paste, and then fry it in oil, and you can eat it, that is, eat the steamed bread in long summer, which means that the whole family can spend the summer safely.
12, summer cake. Also known as sesame seed cake, it has different shapes, such as riding a horse by the champion, sending a child by Guanyin and holding a peach by a monkey. There are two kinds of bread: sweet and salty. Salty flour cakes are made of shredded pork and leeks dipped in garlic paste, and sweet flour cakes add more sugar. Spring rolls are made of refined pancakes, wrapped with fried bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork and other fillings, sealed with flour mixed with egg white, and then fried in a hot oil pan until Huang eats.