Should we eat noodles during the Beginning of Summer? What can we eat during the Beginning of Summer?
It feels like summer in the south but spring in the north, and the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers are shaded by green trees. The summer solstice is in early May. Do you want to know more details about the summer solstice? The third month of the lunar calendar is the period between spring and summer. Want to know what good days there are in March of the lunar calendar in 2021? Then click on Mr. Shui Mo's website and take a look.Should we eat noodles during the Beginning of Summer?People usually eat "Lixia Rice" during the Beginning of Summer solar term. It is made by mixing five colored beans, such as red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, and mung beans, with white glutinous rice and cooking them into "five colored rice".However, in the southern Fujian region, there is a custom of eating "shrimp noodles" during the Beginning of Summer solar term. On the day of the Beginning of Summer, people in southern Fujian will buy shrimps and mix them with noodles to cook. The shrimps turn red when cooked, which is an auspicious color. "Shrimp" is homophonic with "summer", which means summer, so this is a blessing for the summer. What can we eat during the Beginning of Summer?1. In the suburbs of Shanghai, people use wheat flour and sugar to make strips of food about an inch long on the Beginning of Summer. These strips are called "wheat silkworms". People can eat them to avoid summer heatiness.2. Tongshan County, Hubei Province, regards the Beginning of Summer as an important festival. People in Tongshan eat strawberries, shrimps, and bamboo shoots on the Beginning of Summer. They say that "eating strawberries will brighten your eyes, eating shrimps will give you strength, and eating bamboo shoots will strengthen your legs." 3. In Shengzhou area, on the day of Beginning of Summer, people eat eggs to support the heart, bamboo shoots to support the legs, peas to support the eyes, and scales to support the body. The purpose is to pray for the health of important parts of the body, mind, legs, etc., to prevent illness, and to successfully get through the hot summer. 4. In Zhouning and Fu'an in eastern Fujian, people will soak Guangbing in water and make it into a dish at the beginning of summer; while in Jiaocheng and Fu'an, people will cut Guangbing into two halves and eat it with fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, pickled vegetables, etc. 5. In eastern Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating "Seven-family porridge" at the beginning of summer. In rural areas, neighbors will give each other beans and rice, mix them with brown sugar, and cook them into a pot of porridge called "Seven-family porridge". It is said that after eating this porridge, the neighbors will be harmonious and concentrate on summer farming and planting. 6. In Changsha, Hunan, people eat soup balls made of glutinous rice flour and Artemisia selengensis on the day of the Beginning of Summer. It is called "Beginning of Summer Soup". A folk proverb says, "After eating the soup at the beginning of summer, the granite will be stepped into a pit", and "Eat a dumpling (pronounced "tuo") at the beginning of summer, and you can cross the river with one foot", which means to have unparalleled strength and be as light as a swallow. 7. In Chunchi Town, Zhouning County, some villages eat "Lixia Paste" at the beginning of summer. There are two main types of "Lixia Paste", one is rice paste and the other is sweet potato flour paste. The soup is cooked in a big pot. The ingredients are extremely rich, including meat, bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck offal, tofu, etc. Neighbors invite each other to drink the soup. 8. In Ningbo area, people eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" at the beginning of summer. Black bamboo shoots are cooked, each one is three or four inches long, and are not split open. When eating, two bamboo shoots of the same thickness are picked and eaten in one bite. It is said that eating them can make the "feet bones strong" (healthy body). Then eat soft vegetables (Juntaxai). It is said that after eating it you will not get prickly heat in the summer and your skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables. Do you want to know your own Bazi? Want to figure out where your golden marriage is? Click on the [Premium Calculation] below to calculate your horoscope and fortune! |
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