What do people in different regions eat during the Beginning of Summer? What is the meaning of the festival?
Introduction: Our country is a vast country with different ethnic groups, so there are also great differences in living habits and customs. The Beginning of Summer is the first solar term in summer and also a traditional festival, and festivals are always inseparable from the emphasis on food. So what do people in different regions eat at the Beginning of Summer? What is the meaning of the festival? Follow the editor to find out. April is the most beautiful month in early summer. Welcome to April in the late spring season. I will tell you about the beautiful days in April of the lunar calendar. Mr. Shui Mo recommends various festivals in April of the lunar calendar.Shengzhou"拄" means to support. In Su Shi's poem "Brewing Tea in the Examination Hall", there is a line that says "No need to fill your stomach with five thousand volumes of text." Lixia is the beginning of summer. On this day, people in Shengzhou eat eggs to support their hearts, bamboo shoots to support their legs, peas to support their eyes, and weigh people to support their bodies. The purpose is to pray for the health of important parts of the body, mind, legs, etc., to prevent illness, and to get through the hot summer smoothly. In the old days, people in the countryside used red beans, yellow beans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-colored beans mixed with white glutinous rice to cook "five-color rice". Later, it evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese beans and meat, and the dish included amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "Lixia Rice". Eggs boiled with black tea or walnut shells are called "Lixia eggs" and are given to each other as gifts. Weave an egg ring with colorful threads and hang it on the child’s chest or on a tent. Children play by hanging eggs on their chests at the beginning of summer, and the one whose eggshell is strong and does not break wins. There is a saying: "If you hang an egg on your chest at the beginning of summer, your child will not suffer from summer heatstroke." Summer heatstroke is a common summer symptom that causes abdominal distension, loss of appetite, fatigue and weight loss, and children are especially susceptible to it. There are also bracelets tied around children with five-colored silk threads, which are called "Lixia ropes".NingboIt is a custom in Ningbo to eat "foot bone bamboo shoots". They are cooked with black bamboo shoots, each of which is three or four inches long and is not split open. When eating, one picks two bamboo shoots of the same thickness and eats them in one bite. It is said that eating them can make one's "foot bones healthy" (body healthy). 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.ChangshaPeople in Changsha, Hunan 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 Beginning of Summer Soup, the granite will be stepped into a pit" and "Eat a ball (pronounced "tuo") on the Beginning of Summer, and you can cross the river with one foot", which means to have incredible strength and be as light as a swallow.ShanghaiOn the Beginning of Summer day, farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai use wheat flour and sugar to make strips of food about an inch long, which are called "wheat silkworms". People eat them to avoid "summer sickness". In the customs of the Beginning of Summer day in Shanghai, eggs are always eaten on the day because egg products are in the peak season at this time. Children always have an egg covered in a red net hung around their necks. In Shanghai, there is also a custom of "remembering the beginning of summer and testing your weight after eating the food." On the beginning of summer, people eat pancakes made of taro and golden cauliflower, and at noon, everyone, young or old, men and women, must weigh themselves.TongshanThe people of Tongshan County, Hubei Province regard the Beginning of Summer as an important festival. They eat strawberries, shrimps and bamboo shoots on the Beginning of Summer, saying that "eating strawberries will brighten your eyes, eating shrimps will give you strength, and eating bamboo shoots will strengthen your legs."FujianIn southern Fujian, people eat shrimp noodles on the beginning of summer. That means buying shrimps and mixing them into noodles to cook. The shrimps turn red when cooked, which is an auspicious color. "Shrimp" and "summer" are homophones in Chinese, so this is a blessing for the summer. In the eastern Fujian region, people mainly eat "Guangbing" (baked flour with a little salt) during the Beginning of Summer. In Zhouning and Fu'an in eastern Fujian, Guangbing is soaked in water and then made into dishes, while in Jiaocheng and Fu'an, Guangbing is cut in half and eaten with fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, pickled vegetables, etc. Some villages in Chunchi Town, Zhouning County eat "Lixia porridge", which is mainly of two types, one is rice porridge and the other is sweet potato flour porridge. 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. This is somewhat similar to the custom of eating "seven-family porridge" on the beginning of summer in rural eastern Zhejiang. "Seven-family porridge" and "Seven-family tea" can be regarded as another form of trying new things during the Beginning of Summer. Seven-family porridge is made by gathering rice from neighbors, adding various beans and brown sugar, and cooking it into a big pot of porridge for everyone to share. For the Seven-Family Tea, each family brings their own freshly roasted tea leaves, which are then mixed and brewed or brewed into a large pot of tea, which everyone then gathers together to drink. These porridges or teas may not be very delicious foods, but these rituals can be said to be important social activities in rural society in the past.East ZhejiangIn the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating "Seven-Family Porridge" at the beginning of summer. Farmers give beans and rice to each other, 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, neighbors will be harmonious and concentrate on summer farming and planting.AnhuiThere is also a saying that it is taboo to sit on the doorstep on the day of the Beginning of Summer. In Anhui, it was recorded in the "Taihu County Annals" of the decade of Daoguang: "On the day of the Beginning of Summer, people make soup with bamboo shoots and amaranth, and warn each other not to sit on the doorstep or take naps during the day, as it is said that worrying about the summer will cause fatigue and illness." It means that if you sit on the doorstep on this day, you will feel tired and sick in the summer.Southern ZhejiangDuring the Beginning of Summer, every household in southern Zhejiang has to buy safflower and new tea for the year's supply. There is a poem that goes, "Beginning of Summer, a sunny day in April, I discuss the annual expenditure with my lover; safflower, salt and vegetables are all hard to come by, so I've got to buy new tea to get through the year." This is because the new grain is just being planted at that time, and it is the time when there is a shortage of food. If you don't store firewood and rice, the price will be high when you buy them when they are in short supply. At the same time, silkworms break out of their cocoons and spin new silk. If the tea leaves are not harvested and stored, they will become old leaves after this time. Safflower is used by women to dye clothes. It is produced in April and must be purchased in time.JiangnanThere is a folk saying in the Jiangnan area that people try "three new things" at the beginning of summer. The "three new things" are cherries, green plums, and shad. "Three New" also refers to "bamboo shoots, cherries, and plums", "cherries, green plums, and wheat kernels", and "bamboo shoots, cherries, and broad beans". In short, you can eat seasonal fresh food during the Beginning of Summer.Summary: Through the above article, we learned about the food customs during the Beginning of Summer in different regions, and also learned the meaning behind the festival. I hope it can provide you with new knowledge and allow you to have a deeper understanding of traditional culture! |
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