What is the custom of eating during the Summer Solstice? What are the food traditions for the Summer Solstice?

What is the custom of eating during the Summer Solstice? What are the food traditions for the Summer Solstice?
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What is the custom of eating during the Summer Solstice?

1. Shaanxi
In Shaanxi Province, there is a custom of eating rice dumplings on the summer solstice.
2. Beijing
In Beijing, people can enjoy raw vegetables and cold noodles during the summer solstice every year, because the weather is hot at this time, and eating raw and cold food can reduce internal heat and stimulate appetite without damaging health due to the coldness.
3. Zhejiang
In Shaoxing, Zhejiang, people, regardless of their birth or wealth, worship their ancestors on the summer solstice, commonly known as "doing the summer solstice". In addition to the usual offerings, they also add a plate of cattail cakes.
4. Jiangsu
In Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, people eat oatmeal porridge in the morning and wontons at noon on the summer solstice, which symbolizes chaos and harmony. There is a proverb that goes: "Eat wontons at the summer solstice and dumplings at the winter solstice, and the family will be reunited in all seasons."
5. Lingnan
People in the Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangzhou in Lingnan and Qinzhou, Yulin and other areas in Guangxi like to eat dog meat and lychees during the summer solstice. It is said that dog meat and lychees are not hot when eaten together on the Summer Solstice. There is a saying that "fish is eaten on the Winter Solstice and dog is eaten on the Summer Solstice". Therefore, the custom of eating dog meat and lychees on the Summer Solstice continues to this day.
6. Shandong
In Shandong Province, it is common to eat cold noodles during the summer solstice, commonly known as guoshui noodles. There is a saying that goes "dumplings on the winter solstice and noodles on the summer solstice."
In the eastern part of Jiaodong, people eat noodles during the summer solstice. There is a folk song in Changdao: "The beginning of autumn (dumplings) enter the dog days of summer." People in Zhaoyuan eat boiled dumplings, people in Wudi are accustomed to eating noodles, bean soup and noodle chess pieces, people in Zoucheng like to drink ice water, and some people even go to the caves in Yishan to escape the summer heat.
In Laiyang area, new wheat is offered on the summer solstice, and in Huangxian (now Longkou City), new wheat grains are boiled and eaten. Children use wheat straw to weave an exquisite small strainer and scoop the soup into their mouths again and again. It is not only a way to eat the wheat grains, but also a game, which is very interesting in farm life.

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