What is the meaning of the summer solstice? What to eat during the summer solstice?
In the blink of an eye, it is the summer solstice, one of the 24 solar terms. Every year, the summer solstice will bring about a wave of summer health craze. What is the meaning of the summer solstice? What to eat during the summer solstice? Want to know more about the days and lucky and unlucky days in the fifth month of the lunar calendar? Come to the fortune teller website to find out what each day of the fifth lunar month of 2018 will be like.What is the meaning of the summer solstice?The meaning of the Summer Solstice: the longest daylight period in a year. The Summer Solstice is one of the earliest determined solar terms among the 24 solar terms. The summer solstice occurs on June 21 or 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year when the sun reaches 90 degrees of ecliptic longitude. "Zhi" means "extreme", and the summer solstice is also called "the longest day". After the summer solstice, the sun's direct point gradually moves southward, and the days in the northern hemisphere will become shorter and shorter, and the nights will become longer and longer.Zhao Zhiheng, an astronomical education expert in my country and director of the Tianjin Astronomical Society, said that on the summer solstice, the entire northern hemisphere experiences the longest day. The place with the longest daylight in my country is Mohe, which is nearly 17 hours long; the shortest is Zengmu Shoal, which is more than 12 hours long. The difference in daylight length between the north and south of my country is nearly 5 hours. What to eat during the summer solstice:1. Lettuce and cold noodles. In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing that “eat wontons at the winter solstice and noodles at the summer solstice”. According to the customs of old Beijing, people would start eating raw vegetables and cold noodles as soon as the summer solstice arrives. Eating these raw and cold foods can effectively help reduce internal heat and stimulate the appetite, but they will not harm your health because they are too cold. Therefore, whenever the summer solstice approaches, foods such as cold noodles start to sell well.2. Hot noodles Some people like to eat hot noodles in the hot summer, which is called "guotiaoer". It is said to have the meaning of "warding off evil". Eating hot noodles is to drive away evil and sweat more to remove moisture and heat retained in the body. 3. Summer Solstice Soup: People in Changsha, Hunan eat soup balls made of glutinous rice flour and Artemisia selengensis on the Summer Solstice, which is called "Summer Solstice Soup". A folk proverb says, "After eating the Summer Solstice Soup, the granite stones will be stepped into pits," and "Eat a ball (pronounced "tuo") on the Summer Solstice, and you can cross the river with one foot," which means to have incredible strength and be as light as a swallow. 4. Summer Solstice Pancakes: After the summer harvest, new wheat is on the market, so there is a custom of eating noodles on this day to taste the new wheat. Some people also make a paste with wheat flour, spread it into thin pancakes and bake them for food. It is filled with vegetables, bean pods, tofu, and bacon and eaten after ancestor worship. It is commonly known as "Summer Solstice Cake". 5. Pea cake: On the day of the summer solstice, according to the old Nanjing custom, adults would ask children to sit on the doorstep and eat pea cake to prevent all kinds of diseases. The origin of this custom is that in summer, the weather is very hot and people don’t want to eat, so they let children eat pea cakes first to whet their appetite. In addition, old Nanjing people eat a bowl of cold noodles and weigh themselves on the day of the summer solstice. 6. Summer Solstice Eggs Summer Solstice Eggs are eaten in Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou in southern Hunan and Xiangxi. On the summer solstice, boil a whole egg, peel it, add red dates and cook it into soup, which is called "eating summer solstice eggs". In southern Hunan, mainly in Jiahe, Lanshan and Guiyang, people get up early in the morning on the summer solstice, boil whole eggs, dye the eggshells red with red paper or red dye, put them in a small net bag, tie it on the chests of teenagers and children, and hang it until noon or afternoon, when they peel the eggshells and eat the eggs. People believe that eating eggs during the summer solstice can strengthen the body and stomach, and make walking more vigorous. As the saying goes, "Eating eggs on the summer solstice will crush the stone slabs." 7. New Wheat In some areas of Shandong, there is a custom of cooking new wheat grains and eating them on the summer solstice. Children use a small sieve made of new wheat straw to scoop out the new wheat grains from the soup to eat. It is both a way of tasting new food and a game. 8. Yuanhujiao "Eating round Jiao balls on the summer solstice will make the stones creak when you step on them." In the past, many farmers would string the prepared Jiao balls on bamboo sticks, insert them into the gaps in the paddy fields where water flows, and burn incense as a sacrifice to pray for a good harvest. Therefore, there is still a custom of eating Yuanhujiao during the summer solstice in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. |
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