1, beginning of spring: Spring rolls

Beginning of spring, the first solar term in a year, marks the beginning of spring. Eating spring cakes and spring rolls in the picture is called "biting spring" This is almost a ceremony for people to accept the energy and vitality of spring.

2, rain: Dragon beard cake

The rain eats the dragon beard cake, and the rainy weather is wet. People used to make dragon beard cakes at this time to honor their elders. Since then, it has spread and become a popular seasonal food.

3, shock: snowballing.

Rolling on a donkey is one of the snacks that must be eaten in the scary season. The snowballing usury is a traditional snack suitable for all ages. The outer layer is covered with bean powder, and the bean paste is sweet, soft and unique in flavor.

4, vernal equinox: spring vegetables

At the vernal equinox, wild spring vegetables grow fiercely, so our ancestors developed a way to eat spring vegetables at the vernal equinox. They put fresh and tender spring vegetables in boiling fish fillet soup and rinse them twice from left to right and then from right to left, then get up, take a breath, put chopsticks in their mouths, and the delicious food at the vernal equinox slides down their throats.

5. Qingming: Youth League

The most popular taste in Tomb-Sweeping Day is Qing Tuan made of grass head juice. Even though some places have different practices and names (Tangyuan and Ciba), these soft and waxy cakes are just as delicious and homesick.

6, Grain Rain: Toona sinensis scrambled eggs

Grain Rain is the last solar term in spring, which means that the cold weather is over and the temperature starts to rise. "Toona sinensis is as tender as silk before the rain". It is good to experience the freedom of Toona sinensis before and after Grain Rain. Clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach and regulating qi, moistening skin and improving eyesight, and waiting for another year if you miss it!

7. Long summer: duck eggs.

Long summer is also called "April Festival". In summer, crops grow vigorously. In ancient times, King Zhou would lead his officials to "welcome the summer" and pray for a bumper harvest. Folk dolls will put boiled eggs in the net and hang them on their chests, and go to school with their companions to "beat eggs". It's quite childlike to eat eggs when they are smashed.

8. Xiaoman: Bitter vegetables

Xiaoman is the first real "busy farming season" since beginning of spring, and people have given the meaning of "bitter first, then sweet" to Xiaoman's custom of eating bitter vegetables.

9.mango: plum

Mang solar term is the third traditional solar term in summer. At this time, the weather is obviously hot and there is plenty of rainfall. It's completely summer. At this time, people will start planting crops with awns, so they call them awn seeds. In addition to farming customs, there is also the custom of eating plums in Mangzhong, but because plums are still green plums at this time, they taste sour, so they will be cooked first.

10, summer solstice: noodles

Noodles from summer solstice need to be made from wheat just harvested from the field. After pleasant rubbing and pulling, whether it is made into noodle soup, cold noodles or mixed noodles, it has the magic to make people eat the bowl upside down.

1 1, Xiao Shu: Xinmi

After the summer heat, we should be prepared to "get into the crouch". In the north, it is "a coquette with a crouching face, and pancakes with eggs on the crouch".

12, Great Summer: Cao Xian

Before the summer heat, it was a hot summer; After the heat, the autumn is crisp. The heat is coming, and the hottest time of the year is coming. There are also various prescriptions for heatstroke prevention and cooling in various places: drinking tea, dried ginger, cooking mutton soup, drinking water, drinking mung bean soup, mint tea and so on.

13, beginning of autumn: Watermelon

"After the summer, I am free from illness." As usual, beginning of autumn wants to "stick on the fat of autumn", so he wants to eat watermelon and chew autumn.

14, summer heat: duck meat

Summer turns cold in the morning and evening, and summer is farewell. The human body enters the transition period of yin and yang metabolism. While preventing colds, we should pay attention to clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, supplementing water, nourishing yin and moistening dryness in diet, eating more sour food and less spicy food. "Send ducks in summer, and no one gets sick." Since ancient times, people have the custom of eating ducks in summer. Duck meat nourishes yin and stomach, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling, which is most suitable for tonic in early autumn.

15, white deer: rice wine

When the ancients picked white dew to make wine, not only the weather was suitable for fermentation, but also the night dew from banana leaves was collected in the morning, and the osmanthus picked from the branches could also be sealed in the jar to make osmanthus wine.

16, autumnal equinox: taro cake

After the autumnal equinox, the days in the northern hemisphere are long and the nights are short, and the south officially enters autumn. The insects that come out during the sting hide and wait for the next spring.

17, cold dew: sesame

Because walnuts, dates, lotus seeds, chestnuts, sesame seeds and other good fruits are all ripe and listed together, the shortbread in cold dew seems to be more delicious than at other times. Whenever this time, the family doesn't prepare some crispy cakes, and the days always seem endless.

18, first frost: persimmon

In the first first frost season, when most of the fruits have fallen successfully, the bright red persimmons are still waiting to frost on the tall persimmon tree in front of our house, which is a hometown flavor that we especially miss.

19, beginning of winter: jiaozi

The best way to welcome the winter is to wave a rolling pin, make a fuss about jiaozi with your family, and then talk about the family around the dinner table. Beginning of winter has a long tradition of eating jiaozi, which has been part of our genes for a long time.

20. Xiaoxue: bacon

The light snow solar term is around the Gregorian calendar165438+1October 22nd every year, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River generally welcome the first snow. In the light snow season, there must be no less bacon on the table.

2 1, heavy snow: porridge

The solar term of heavy snow is around 65438+February 7 in the Gregorian calendar every year, which is most suitable for cooking porridge on the stove.

22. Winter solstice: wonton

It is said that "the winter solstice is as big as a year", and people have paid special attention to the winter solstice since ancient times. Eat dumplings and noodles in the south; Guangdong eats "winter solstice meat"; Eat mutton powder soup in Ningxia In short, for China people, the bigger the festival, the richer the dietary customs!

23, slight cold: Laba porridge

Pumpkin porridge, sweet potato porridge, longan porridge, Laba porridge, and hot porridge in the cold winter have always been very warm, which always reminds people of those days when they were lazy at home in cold weather.

24. Great Cold: Fried Rice Cake

As the last of the 24 solar terms, the Great Cold means "looking forward to the Spring Festival at the end of the year". As the Spring Festival approaches, people are happy. In the last solar term, only by eating warmly and decently can they be worthy of their hard work as migrant workers for one year.