Do you want to eat cucumbers in Lixia? Is there such a custom?

There are some places, this is a custom in a certain place, because in some places the cucumber can be eaten at this time, so there is this custom!

Some places have, and most of them eat tea eggs!

In our country, there are many customs in Lixia. None of them is romantic, but they are closely related to daily life, and they have a simple wish for the future. Lixia wants to eat pea glutinous rice, and eating peas can be "beautiful.""。

On the day of the beginning of summer, what can compete with pea glutinous rice on an equal footing is not "black rice.""None other than that. Black rice is said to have been available as early as the Tang Dynasty, when Yixing, Liyang, Jintan and southern Anhui in Jiangsu Province used black leaves to cook black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. Later, probably because the eighth day of the fourth month was very close to the Lixia solar term, eating black rice was slowly incorporated into the custom of Lixia.

There is also a saying among the older generation that if you eat black rice in the summer, you will not be bitten by mosquitoes all summer.

There is another custom worth mentioning in Lixia - calling people (there are also places to make "scale people.")"）。The old man said that Lixia said that people can bring blessings, and they can also pray for physical and mental health to prevent "summer.""and successfully survive the hot summer.

Hangzhou eats black glutinous rice here.

There are also places to eat eggs.

5. Food customs in various places:

1. Five-color rice.

In the old days, red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans were mixed with white japonica rice in the countryside to cook "five-color rice", which was called Lixia rice.

2. Eat soft vegetables.

In some places in the south, there is a custom of eating soft vegetables (Jun Ta Cai) in the beginning of summer, saying that there will be no prickly heat in summer after eating, and ** will be as smooth as soft vegetables.

3. Eat shrimp noodles.

In the old days, the southern Fujian region ate shrimp noodles in summer, mixed shrimp into noodles and cooked, the shrimp turned red after cooking, which was an auspicious color, and the shrimp and summer were homophonic, so as to express the wishes for summer.

4. Eat "light cakes".

In some areas of Fujian, there is a custom of eating "light cakes" in Lixia.

5. "Seven Porridges".

In the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, we eat "seven porridges", "seven porridges" is a collection of rice from all over the neighborhood, plus all kinds of beans and sugar, boiled into a big pot of porridge, which is eaten by everyone. It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighbors are harmonious, and they are dedicated to summer farming and summer planting.

6. Eat "Lixia eggs".

Shanghai eats eggs in the summer. On the day of the beginning of summer, the children always have an egg wrapped in a red net around their necks. It is best to use salted duck eggs, because salted duck eggs are rich in calcium, iron and other inorganic salts, and the calcium and iron content are higher than those of eggs and fresh duck eggs, which is the first choice for supplementing calcium and iron in summer.

7. "Taste three fresh".

Wuxi folk have always had the custom of "tasting three fresh foods in the beginning of summer". The three freshness are divided into three freshness, three freshness of the tree, and three freshness of water. The three freshness of the ground are broad beans, amaranth and cucumbers; The three fresh trees are cherries, loquats, and apricots; The three fresh water are sea oysters, puffer fish, and anchovy.

8. "Lixia sees three new".

There is a proverb in Suzhou that "the beginning of summer sees three new". "Sanxin" refers to freshly ripened cherries, green plums, and wheat. At the same time, Suzhou Lixia also has to eat sea oysters, gluten, white bamboo shoots, shepherd's cabbage, salted duck eggs, green broad beans, each hotel Lixia on this day to the old customers who enter the store to present wine, shochu, do not take a penny, so also call Lixia "Feeding Festival".

9. "Wild Summer Rice".

Hangzhou has the custom of eating "wild summer rice" in the beginning of summer. On that day, children gathered in groups to beg for rice and meat from their neighbors. Then go to the field to pick wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, use stones to set up a pot stove, self-burning for nothing, called eating "wild summer rice" or "summer rice".

Sixth, taboo sit on the threshold.

There is a saying that it is taboo to sit on the threshold in the summer, especially for children. It is said that if you sit on the threshold in the summer, you will be tired and sick in the summer, and you will not be energetic for a year.

If a child accidentally sits on the threshold, he must sit on all seven thresholds before the taboo can be lifted.

The customs of Lixia are mostly related to dispel the heat, how to spend the summer safely.

Performing lanterns, local operas, singing mountain songs, playing dragons, donkeys, playing clam shells, lion dances, etc. Now I don't know if I can perform or not, and I haven't been there for many years

In our hometown, there is a habit of eating Lixia kueh.

Glutinous rice pot.

75-year-old Grandma Han in the middle street of the old city, her ancestral home is Dinggou, Jiangdu, and later moved to Yangzhou. She said that Yangzhou people should eat glutinous rice pot on the 24th day of the lunar month in Lixia to prevent diarrhea.

According to Grandma Han, Yangzhou people want to burn glutinous rice to send to the god of the stove on the 24th day of the lunar month every year, because it is a big pot, there is a circle of glutinous rice pot on the side of the pot, when she was a child, her grandmother always had to shovel down this circle of glutinous rice pot, put it away after being exposed to the sun; On the day of the beginning of summer, take it out and boil it in water and eat it. It is said that after eating for a summer, you will not have diarrhea.

Grandma Han's statement was corroborated by Ms. Zhu from the ninth lane of the old city. Ms. Zhu's grandmother still keeps the steamed buns made in Layue after drying them until the summer, and the child is a little upset in her stomach, so she cooks them and gives them to the child, and says that this is "cold water" to kill the heat.

Yuqian biscuits, Yangzhou people Lixia also have the custom of eating elm money cakes. Aunt Dai from Jixian Three Village told reporters that when she was a child, she had to eat elm money cakes every year on Lixia. Every year around Qingming Festival, her mother skewered the fresh elm money she had picked up, took it off on the day of the beginning of summer, first swelled it with water, and then made cakes with flour.

It is said that if you eat elm money cakes, you will not get sick in summer.

Before and after the beginning of summer, all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits are on the market one after another, and Yangzhou people also have the custom of tasting fresh in the beginning of summer.

Aunt Zhang, from Changfu Lane, who was born in a large family, said that when she was a child, her family conditions were relatively good, and her family especially retained the rules of traditional festivals and solar terms. On the day of the beginning of summer, relatives and friends in the countryside will send baskets full of garlic sprouts, amaranth, green broad beans and salted duck eggs to the city. One of the things they often say is "It's summer, try it".

Sitting on the threshold, Yangzhou people also have the custom of sitting on the threshold in Lixia (there is also a taboo sitting on the threshold). It is said that after the child sits on the threshold, he will not sleep lazily in the summer and will not doze off during the day.

But the open-minded Grandma Han said that the Lixia customs such as eating glutinous rice pot and sitting on the threshold were all formed in the era when science was underdeveloped, and there was no scientific reason. Now Lixia still retains the tradition of "sending summer", because this is a blessing from parents to their newlywed daughters. Correspondent: Shao Weiqiong, trainee reporter, Zhu Xuanqing, reporter: Liu Fengsheng.

Sun Yi: Lixia must remember to eat?

The folk are known as "sticking autumn fat". On the day of the beginning of autumn, the folk people are weighed on hanging scales, and the weight is compared with the beginning of summer to test the fat and thin, and the weight loss is called "bitter summer". At that time, people's health was often judged only by fat and thin.

Of course, you need to "make up" if you are thin, and the way to make up is to "stick autumn fat", eat delicious delicacies, of course, the first choice is to eat meat, "to stick to the fat with meat". On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat, and those who are particular about it eat white-cut meat, red stewed meat, as well as meat-stuffed dumplings, stewed chicken, stewed duck, braised fish, etc. In addition to "sticking autumn fat" in the beginning of autumn, Tianjin and other places are also popular in "biting autumn".

It is believed that eating melons at the beginning of autumn will avoid diarrhea in winter and spring. There is such a record in Zhang Tao's "Miscellaneous Records of Jinmen and Customs of the Year" of the Qing Dynasty: "Eating melons at the beginning of autumn and biting autumn can avoid diarrhea."

In the Qing Dynasty, people put melons, steamed eggplant, and fragrant glutinous soup in the yard to dry overnight on the day before the beginning of autumn, and ate them on the day of the beginning of autumn, in order to clear the heat and avoid dysentery. Autumn peaches are popular in Hangzhou. At the beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one per person, and keep the kernel after eating.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the peach pits were thrown into the furnace and burned to ashes, which was thought to save them from the plague for a year. In the east and west of Sichuan, it is also popular to drink "Liqiu water", that is, at the beginning of autumn, the whole family drinks a cup of each other, which is said to eliminate the accumulated heat and not make trouble in autumn. In the Laixi area of Shandong, it is popular to eat "dregs" in the beginning of autumn, which is a kind of small tofu made of minced beans and green vegetables.