Tuotuo is made of rice flour, leeks and other condiments, also known as round paste. As the saying goes, "eat round paste and step on stones on the solstice in summer." . In the past, many farmers used bamboo sticks to put the lump in the gap of each rice field, burning incense and praying for a bumper harvest. The children have been waiting for this day for a long time, so that they can go to various fields to pick up lumps and have a full meal.
On the solstice of summer, Wuxi people eat porridge in the morning and wonton at noon, which means chaos and harmony. There is a proverb: "Summer solstice wonton winter solstice reunion, four seasons Ankang people reunion." After eating wonton, I weighed my children, hoping that their weight gain would be healthier.
In the northwest of China, such as Shaanxi, zongzi is eaten during this solar eclipse, and chrysanthemums are used as ashes to prevent wheat from being damaged by pests. In the south, people weigh themselves to see if they are fat or thin. Farmers roll pancakes with vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon, bake them, eat them after ancestor worship or give them to relatives and friends.
In some areas of China, many underage nieces and nephews go to their parents' homes for dinner, and my uncle must have amaranth and gourd to cook. As the saying goes, eating amaranth will not give birth to children, but eating gourd will make your legs strong. Some people go to grandma's house to eat bacon, saying that it will be summer soon.
In some places in China, besides eating dog meat, there is also the habit of eating litchi. Cantonese in Guangzhou and Cantonese in Qinzhou and Yulin in Guangxi like to eat dog meat and lychee on the solstice in summer. Are they spicy together? Eating a lot of litchi is easy to cause hypoglycemia, that is, "litchi disease", so it must be moderate. Drinking a little salt water or mung bean water, wax gourd water and raw soup before and after eating litchi can relieve summer heat.