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What are the customs of the long summer solar terms?
What do Ningbo people eat during the long summer holidays?
Food for nourishing the heart and calming the nerves in the long summer.
What are the customs of the long summer solar terms?
Eat eggs and beat eggs
On the day of long summer, many places will have the custom of eating eggs, whether they are eggs, duck eggs or goose eggs. Especially for children, in the long summer, a hard-boiled egg will be hung on their chest, which means that they will be very healthy this summer and will not be troubled by diseases. At the same time, children will also play an egg-beating game, in which everyone's eggs will attack each other. The person who breaks the egg first is a loser, and the person who never breaks the egg wins the final victory.
The custom of "eating eggs in the long summer" has a long history. There is a proverb that goes like this: "A long summer hangs an egg breast, and a child has no summer." Summer is a common anorexia in summer, and children are particularly prone to summer. Nu Wa Niangniang appealed to the people to hang the cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs on their children's chests to escape the heat every summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs in the long summer has continued to this day.
Weigh a person
Many rural areas in our country like to put a steelyard at the entrance of a village or a densely populated place to weigh people in the long summer days. Everyone sits on the scale one by one and says that the person who helps weigh needs to be articulate and say more auspicious words about the weight of everyone in order to win a good prize.
There is also an interesting story about the origin of the custom of addressing people. According to folklore, Meng Huo was surrendered by Zhuge Liang, and after surrendering to Shu, he obeyed Zhuge Liang. On his deathbed, Zhuge Liang entrusted Meng Huo to visit the master of Shu once a year. Zhuge Liang instructed that day, which happened to be the long summer of this year. Meng Huo immediately went to worship Adou. Since then, every summer, Meng Huo has promised to visit Shu. After a few years, Shu was destroyed and taken away. Meng Huo did not forget the entrustment of the Prime Minister. Every year, Chang Xia led troops to Adou, Luoyang, and every time he went, he weighed Adou to verify whether Adou was abused by Emperor Wu of Jin. He threatened to fight Kim if he mistreated Dou. In order to accommodate Meng Huo, every year in the long summer, Emperor Wu of Jin used glutinous rice and peas to make lunch for Adou. Dou saw that peas were glutinous and fragrant, and he ate them twice. Meng Huo weighed people in the city, weighing several kilograms more each time than the previous year. Although Adou has no skill, he has Meng Huo's reputation as a man in the long summer, and Emperor Wu of Jin did not dare to bully him, so he lived a quiet and happy life and lived a long and happy life. Although this legend is different from historical facts, what people want is a peaceful world of "peace and happiness, long life". People who weigh in the long summer will bring good luck to Adou, and people also pray to God to bring them good luck.
Ying Xia
Long summer is the beginning of summer. The word "summer" in "long summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in spring have grown up. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs and habits of long summer. On the long summer day, the ancient emperor would lead officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. People have summed up the relationship between weather change and daily life and agricultural production in their long-term life and production practice. Many people also regret the harvest of a year according to the uncertainty of summer, and think that it is best to have rain in the long summer, otherwise it will be "the long summer will not stop, and the drought will come to wheat" and "the long summer will not rain, and the plowshares will hang high".
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What do Ningbo people eat during the long summer holidays?
1, foot bone bamboo shoots
Eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" in the long summer is one of the customs that have to be mentioned in old Ningbo. From the long summer to the beginning of the busy farming season, people naturally want to be "healthy", so eating "bamboo shoots with feet and bones" has become an excuse for people to pray for health.
Whether using traditional black bamboo shoots, wild bamboo shoots or ordinary thunder bamboo shoots, the focus of eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" lies in the shape. Bamboo shoots are chopped flat and cut into a section of about 4 cm, which looks like foot bones. Eat it to be "healthy".
2. Junta cuisine
Soft food is in Ningbo, and there is another name, Junda. Speaking of "military government", there is a funny legend. According to legend, during the Jianyan period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Bing invaded the Central Plains, and King Kang fled from Hangzhou to Ningbo to avoid Jin Bing. Nomads from behind, he escaped, passing a vegetable field in Jiangbei, and trampled the vegetables beyond recognition. There was a spring rain that night, and the vegetables that were trampled on the ground had tenacious vitality. The next day, they returned to their original appearance, lush. Therefore, the people call this vegetable "Junte", which means "the vegetable trampled by the king".
Eating soft vegetables in long summer means that he is as vigorous as "Juntai", full of vitality all year round, healthy and long-lived. In addition, soft dishes are cool and slippery after cooking. It is said that if he eats them in the long summer, he can keep his skin smooth and won't get boils all summer.
Step 3: eggs
Eating tea eggs and bumping eggs are also important customs in old Ningbo. People from Ningbo, the old base, pay attention to health in early summer. "If you eat an egg in the long summer, the slate will be trampled", which means that you will have a good figure if you eat tea eggs in the long summer.
In Ningbo, there has always been a custom of boiling eggs with black tea or walnut shells as a mutual gift in the long summer. Egg covers are woven with colored threads and hung on children's chests, and children lean on the "Long Summer Eggs" game.
4. Beans and rice
This way of eating is related to Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war. According to legend, when Qi Jiguang led his troops to the enemy along the coast of Yuyao, Qi Jiajun fought bravely and was invincible. Every time a soldier kills an enemy, he will pick a broad bean and string it on his chest. The number of broad beans represents the number of people who killed the enemy, and the number of beans is used as a reward. Therefore, in the surrounding areas of Ningbo, broad beans are also called "Japanese beans".
Around the long summer, fresh Japanese beans have just come on the market. Japanese bean rice is cooked with Japanese beans: Japanese beans are peeled and the rice is glutinous rice. It is best to add some ham (diced or bacon) to cook together.
5. Black rice
Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, there is a "Black Rice Festival" in many places in Ningbo. For this reason, there is a poem: see young crops on the eighth day of April, step on the ridge with black rice on your back, blow off the gourd cover in the spring breeze, and smell the fragrance in ten acres the next day. Many people think that black rice is made of black rice, but it is actually made of white rice.
There is also a story behind this dish, which is about Yang, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, Yang was imprisoned by a traitor. His sister came to deliver meals every day, only to find that they were all eaten by the jailer. Seeing that my brother was getting haggard, my sister came up with a way to cook glutinous rice with the black juice of buttonwood leaves. When the jailer saw it, he thought the rice was dirty and stopped eating it. Later, on the eighth day of April, Yang successfully escaped from prison and made meritorious deeds to clear his name. In memory of this famous person, Ningbo people cook black rice on the eighth day of April every year.
6.black rice cake
Black rice cake is also one of the traditional long summer snacks in Ningbo. It is made by mashing black leaves and soaking them in water, soaking glutinous rice with black leaf juice to dye it black, then steaming the soaked black glutinous rice with sugar and pressing it into glutinous rice cake by hand, which has a faint black leaf flavor.
It is said that the custom of eating black rice in long summer originated from the fighting between Sun Bin and Pang Juan during the Warring States Period. They all study in Guiguzi's school. Pang Juan was jealous of Sun Bin's talent and framed him. Pang kept Sun in a pigsty and tortured him in every way. In order to cheat Pang Juan to survive, Sun Bin played the fool. He cooked rice with black leaves and kneaded it into jiaozi. Because it was almost like pig manure, he cheated Pang Juan. Sun Bin just eats black rice in the long summer, so this custom has been handed down!
7. Polygonatum
The long summer is a good time to make up for it! People's immune ability is in a relatively low period, and the body needs to be nursed back to health. In the old days, people in Ningbo usually dug up a kind of traditional Chinese medicine called Polygonatum before and after the long summer, took its rhizome, stewed it alone or ate the whole chicken together, which had the functions of invigorating qi, nourishing yin, invigorating spleen, moistening lung and benefiting kidney.
"Rihuazi Materia Medica" records that Polygonatum sibiricum "tonifies five strains and seven injuries, helps bones and muscles, quenches thirst, resists cold and heat, benefits the spleen and stomach, and moistens the heart and lungs", and is suitable for symptoms such as dry expectoration, loss of appetite, forgetfulness and palpitation. It can also resist aging and prolong life, and has the reputation of "Polygonatum replaces kidney qi".
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Food for nourishing the heart and calming the nerves in the long summer.
grapefruit
The pulp is tender, juicy and refreshing, and tastes a little bitter, but it just meets the characteristics of favorite food. At the same time, grapefruit contains potassium, but does not contain sodium, which is the best fruit to maintain the cardiovascular system. Contains natural vitamin P, which can enhance the detoxification function of skin and pores.
tomato
Rich in vitamin C and vitamin A, it can enhance people's physical strength and relieve fatigue caused by work and life pressure. Lycopene, in particular, has a protective effect on cardiovascular system, has a unique oxidation ability, protects cells in vivo, prevents DNA and immune genes from being destroyed, reduces the harm of cancer, lowers cholesterol and prevents constipation.
pig heart
Pigs are flat, sweet and salty, and have the functions of nourishing the heart, enriching the blood, calming the nerves and calming the heart. Rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins and other ingredients, low in fat, can strengthen myocardial nutrition and enhance myocardial contractility.
lotus seed
Lotus seeds are slightly cool, sweet and astringent, and have the functions of nourishing heart, strengthening spleen and tonifying kidney. Besides containing protein, sugar, a small amount of fat and vitamins, it is also rich in minerals such as phosphorus, calcium and iron. Liensinine has the effects of strengthening heart, lowering blood pressure and calming sexual desire.
wheat
Wheat is cool and sweet, which has the functions of nourishing heart, tonifying deficiency, stopping sweating, clearing away heat and relieving annoyance. Rich in starch, protein, calcium, B vitamins, vitamin E, lecithin and other nutrients, especially vitamin E, it is an essential nutrient to protect the normal functions of human blood, heart, bones, muscles and nerves.
Choline, lecithin and arginine contained in wheat can also enhance memory and improve intelligence. In addition to abundant vitamin B and protein, wheat bran also contains an active element, which can regulate nerves, clear away heat, relieve annoyance and moisten viscera.
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