As the saying goes: 'wonton noodles at winter solstice and summer solstice. Eat noodles after summer, a short day. It means that the point of direct sunlight began to shift to the south, and the days gradually shortened. What's special about the food in the summer solstice? People say that dumplings are eaten in the summer solstice and winter solstice to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing, the "doctor saint" of the Eastern Han Dynasty. So why eat noodles in the summer solstice? What is the origin of eating noodles in the summer solstice?
Why eat noodles in summer solstice
Summer solstice why to eat noodles answer, one is to take a good head, in addition, it is also conducive to people's diet health.
It is said that eating noodles in summer solstice is not the hottest time in summer, but it means that hot summer is coming. People began to change their diet from the summer solstice, with low calorie, easy to make, cool food as the main diet, and noodles are usually the first choice for general families. Therefore, the summer solstice surface is also known as the "ambush surface".
On the summer solstice in ancient times, people worshipped gods to pray for the disaster and the prosperity of life. "The rites of the Zhou Dynasty & middot; spring official" says: "in summer, to the local objects and mandrills. The summer solstice sacrifice in Zhou Dynasty means to clear away the plague, famine and death. At this time, the folk New Wheat came out, and people worshipped God with pasta. The custom of eating pasta in the summer solstice has also been spread to this day. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jieri.html)
Because the new wheat has appeared in the summer solstice, eating noodles in the summer solstice also has a new meaning. From the point of view of nutrition, before and after the summer solstice, when wheat harvest and new flour are on the market, the nutrients in fresh flour are higher. In the past, people used to eat more noodles at this time. On the one hand, they celebrated the harvest, and on the other hand, they could draw rich nutrients from the noodles made of new flour with good taste.
Wheat tastes sweet, cool, and enters the heart, spleen and kidney meridian; according to the collection of Materia Medica, "wheat flour, tonifying the deficiency, strengthening the body, thickening the stomach and intestines, and strengthening the strength of the body"; according to the compilation of medical forest, "it can remove the annoyance, stop bleeding, facilitate urination, and moisten the lungs". Others like to eat hot noodles in the hot summer and sweat more to get rid of the dampness and heat in the body. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jieri.html)
In addition, after getting cold in summer, you will often have symptoms such as cold and stuffy nose, headache, body weight, etc. boil a bowl of hot noodles, add some scallion and pepper, taste while it is hot, which has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect.
There is also a detail to pay attention to, noodles to eat, soup nutrition not to forget. Because there are a lot of B vitamins dissolved in the soup in the process of noodle cooking, we should not forget to drink more soup when eating noodles.