What to eat during the Beginning of Summer? Introducing traditional Lixia delicacies!

What to eat during the Beginning of Summer? Introducing traditional Lixia delicacies!
As one of the 24 solar terms, what to eat during the Lixia solar term is also of great concern to everyone. So, let’s take a look at what to eat during the Lixia solar term. Introducing traditional Lixia delicacies! The fourth month of the lunar calendar is also known as Mengxia, Yinyue, and Meiyue. What are the auspicious days in the fourth month of the lunar calendar in 2022? Click on the April Lunar Month special topic on Mr. Shui Mo’s website to view related knowledge!

What to eat during the Beginning of Summer?

It is good to eat heart-nourishing food during the Beginning of Summer
After the beginning of summer, the temperature gradually rises. The summer heat is extremely severe, which is most likely to damage the heart. Therefore, starting from the beginning of summer, you can eat more heart-nourishing foods, such as cowpeas, milk, soybeans, chicken, etc.
It is good to drink honeysuckle tea during the Beginning of Summer
After the beginning of summer, people are prone to show symptoms of excessive heart fire, such as irritability, irritability, yellow urine, thirst, etc. At this time, you can drink honeysuckle tea appropriately. Brew 3 grams of honeysuckle and 5 grams of green tea with boiling water and drink it. It has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving restlessness.

Introducing traditional Lixia delicacies!

Traditional food for the beginning of summer: Sanxin
The "three new things" refer to newly ripe cherries, green plums and wheat. People first offer these "three new things" to their ancestors, and then taste them.
Traditional food for the beginning of summer: three delicacies
The people of Wuxi have always had the custom of "tasting three fresh foods at the beginning of summer". The three fresh dishes are divided into three fresh dishes from the ground, three fresh dishes from trees and three fresh dishes from water. The three fresh fruits grown on the land are broad beans, amaranth, and cucumber (or wheat or garlic sprouts as one of them); the three fresh fruits grown on trees are cherries, loquats, and apricots (or plums or toon as one of them); the three fresh fruits grown on water are sea snails, puffer fish, and shad (or pomfret, yellow croaker, whitebait, and anchovy as one of them).
Traditional food for the beginning of summer: black rice
In Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places, people still retain the ancient custom of eating black rice at the beginning of summer. Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice. It is made by collecting the leaves of the wild plant Tung oil tree and boiling them into soup. The glutinous rice is soaked in this soup for half a day, and then the rice is taken out and steamed in a wooden steamer.
Traditional food for the beginning of summer: Qijia porridge
In Zhejiang Province, people will cook "Qijia Porridge" and drink "Qijia Tea" at the beginning of summer. "Qijia Porridge" is a porridge made by collecting rice from neighbors, adding different kinds of beans and brown sugar.
Traditional food for the beginning of summer: bamboo shoots with bamboo shoots
In Ningbo, Zhejiang, people eat bamboo shoots called "jiaogu bamboo shoots" during the beginning of summer. "Jiaogu bamboo shoots" refers to black bamboo shoots grown on the mountains, and this is a name unique to Ningbo people.

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