What does Chang Xia eat? Take stock of the dietary customs of long summers all over the country.
1, light cake
East Fujian mainly eats "light cakes" (flour baked with a little salt) in the long summer. Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and ate fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and waste vegetables. Some villages in Chunchi Town, zhouning county eat "long summer paste", which can be divided into rice paste and sweet potato paste. Cook the soup in a large pot. The content of soup is extremely rich, including meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu and so on. Neighbors invited each other to drink paste soup.
2. Edge-fixing paste
In the long summer, it is popular in Fuzhou to cook in summer with a tripod. Fixed-edge paste (also called pot-edge paste) is made of rice paste in a pot, with shrimp, shrimp oil, onion, lily, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of seafood clear soup such as mushrooms and dried clams. It tastes extremely delicious. Anyone who grows up in Fuzhou or lives in Fuzhou for a long time loves to eat it. It has become a famous flavor snack and a special symbol of Fuzhou.
3. Shrimp noodles
In the long summer, every household in southern Fujian used to mix noodles with red distiller's grains and cook them for the whole family. Because red distiller's grains are auspicious and have the function of fermentation, suggesting prosperity and wealth, red distiller's grains are also helpful for digestion and health. Later, this custom evolved, and red distiller's grains were replaced by sea shrimp, which was called "eating shrimp noodles". Shrimp will turn red when cooked, the same color as red grain, as a wish for summer.
4, taste three fresh
Wuxi folks have always had the custom of tasting three delicacies in the long summer. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, wheat, broad bean, amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout); Three fresh trees are cherry, loquat and apricot (one is plum, apricot and cherry, and the other is plum, cherry and toon head); The three kinds of fresh water are marine fish, puffer fish and shad (shad, shad and yellow croaker, as well as shad, whitebait and mackerel). Among them, tasting fresh land is the most common.
5. jiaozi in summer
People in Loudi, Hunan have the custom of eating zongzi. First, knead glutinous rice flour into balls, the size of which is glutinous rice balls, and then put them into a pot to cook with white sugar. Jiaozi is fragrant in summer, and the stuffing is brown sugar, which is sweet but not greasy.
6. Mitazi
Chang Xia, a native of Yiyang, has the custom of eating rice seeds. Tamizi, commonly known as "dry tower", is cooked with rice paste, dried and fried, kneaded into a spherical tower shaped like a glutinous rice ball, fried with lard or bacon, put into soup, then cooked the dry tower, and everyone eats one or two bowls. According to legend, eating dry seeds in the long summer can strengthen the body and bones, and the action is vigorous.
7. Wheat silkworm
During the long summer festival, farmers in suburban counties of Shanghai make strips of wheat flour and sugar, which are called "wheat silkworms". When people eat them, they can avoid "summer". In the long summer, tender grass heads and rice noodles are fried into cakes, which are called "stalls" and are deeply loved by Shanghai and Pudong people.
8. Qijiazhou
In the long summer, in rural Zhejiang, you must eat "Qijia porridge", also called "Qijia tea". Seven porridge is a big pot of porridge made of rice, beans and brown sugar from the neighbor's house. Let's share it. Seven families brought white baked tea, mixed it, cooked it or soaked it into a big pot of tea, and then everyone got together to drink it.
9, black rice cake, foot bone bamboo shoots
Black rice cake is one of the traditional snacks in Ningbo in the long summer. It is made by mashing black leaves and soaking them in water, soaking glutinous rice with black leaf juice to dye it black, then steaming the soaked black glutinous rice with sugar and pressing it into glutinous rice cake by hand, which has a faint black leaf flavor. Eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" in long summer is also a unique custom in Ningbo. Not all bamboo shoots sold in the vegetable market can be used to make "foot bone bamboo shoots", and it is best to use wild bamboo shoots or black bamboo shoots. The key to eating "foot bone bamboo shoots" lies in the shape. Before cooking, pat the bamboo shoots flat and cut them into a section of about 4 cm, which looks like a foot bone. Eat it to be "healthy".
10, see Sanxin
There is a saying in Suzhou that "seeing three new things in the long summer". "Sanxin" refers to newly matured cherries, plums and wheat. At the same time, Suzhou Changxia also wants to eat Haisi, gluten, white bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse, salted duck eggs and green beans. On this day, the long summer of each hotel gives free fermented white wine and soju to the old customers who enter the store, so the long summer is also called "feed festival".
1 1, long summer rice
In some places, such as Guangxi, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and white rice are mixed and cooked into "five-color rice", which is called long summer rice.
12, bamboo shoots
Some areas in Sichuan want to eat bamboo shoots and Sophora beans. It is said that eating bamboo shoots has hard bones and is good for climbing mountains. Also eat green tea with green plums to prevent "eating summer". There is also the custom of eating tofu, saying that eating tofu is not afraid of rain or red bee stings.
13, tender broad bean
The long summer season is the season when a large number of broad beans are on the market. Many places have the custom of cooking tender broad beans in long summer. People who eat "long summer rice" add spices such as broad beans, bamboo shoots, peas and amaranth to the rice, which means "the whole grain is abundant".