The summer heat and solar energy is before and after the “middle volt” in the “three days”. So how much do you know about traditional foods for the great summer heat? I believe many of my friends are still not quite sure about this. Next, let’s take a look at the great heat. Let's take a look at what traditional food we eat on a solar term.

Great summer heat to eat what traditional food:

1. Eat grass

Many places in Guangdong have the habit of eating grass in the Great Summer Festival. Also known as jelly grass, immortal grass, and herbaceous plant of the genus Lilium, it is an important medicinal and edible plant resource. Because of its miraculous refreshing effect, it is known as "Xiancao." After the stems and leaves are dried, they can be made into burned grass, and the area around Guangdong is called jelly, which is a summer dessert.

2. Eat cold vegetables

Southerners also like to eat a variety of cold vegetables before and after the summer heat. Most of them are simple and economical dishes. For example, bean curd salad bean curd and bean sprouts have a crisp and crisp texture, which can make people feel appetite. In addition, there are three kinds of salad, kelp, green pepper and red pepper seasoned with soy sauce, vinegar, Ginger, and so on. It is also the best choice for summertime sake. You can also see fish, winter bamboo shoots, and roast duck in the salad.

3. Eat lychees, mutton and rice grains

In Putian, Fujian, people have the habit of eating lychees, mutton, and rice grains during the great summer season. Some people say that eating lychees during the summer heat has the same nutritional value as eating ginseng. Rice glutinous rice is a mixture of white rice and rice to make it ferment, thoroughly cooked into a bad; to the day of the Great Heat, it is divided into a block, add some brown sugar to cook, it is said that you can "overhaul vitality." On the day of the Great Sage, friends and relatives often give each other litchi and lamb.

4. Drink old winter melon fresh lotus leaf soup

In Guangdong, especially in the vicinity of the Pearl River Delta, on the day of hot weather or hot weather, almost every household has a summer soup. The old melon fresh lotus leaves Jieshu Tang is a traditional folk dietary food in Guangdong. It is mainly composed of old wax gourd, fresh lotus leaf and red bean.

5. Fried grass tofu

Wenzhou summer heat custom to fry the grass tofu. Grass tofu refers to the use of Chinese herbs, licorice, Prunella vulgaris, chrysanthemum and honeysuckle to make tofu shape, cool it, eat it after cooling, cool and detoxify, and thirst. In the past, many families were able to make their own meals.

6. Drink ginger tea

Sun-dried ginger, ginger tea, and ginger sauce are the custom of Taizhou people's summer heat. Because ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, it has passed down from generation to generation. The people of Taiwan are very popular to eat grass and pineapples on this day. It is said that this time the pineapple is the most delicious, and Xiancao is also a local famous snack. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.

7. Eat chicken

Southerners have a habit of eating chicken in the summer. There is a traditional way of tonic for folks. Broiler chickens contain a certain amount of growth hormone, which is beneficial to children in their growth and development stages and to middle-aged and old people who have decreased hormone levels. When adding chicken, add appropriate amount of ginger to adjust the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the human body in summer, so that the human body can adapt to the external environment and play the role of dehumidification.

8. Drink old duck soup

The food widely spread around the South and North is the big summer duck contest tonic. After the old ducks are slowly stewed, they are added to lotus root, wax gourd, citrus aurantium, and barley to cool the soup. Laoyai is a good supplement to the hot summer, it is not only nutritious, but also because of its life in the water all year round, sexual cool, there are five visceral Yang, Qingre and constriction of heat, blood and water, Yang Wei Sheng Jin effect.

9. Drink tea

After the summer heat, one of the habits of people sending summer heat is drinking tea, especially in Jiangxi and other places. People have the habit of drinking wolfberry tea in the summer heat. Many people also use the dried ebony in the backyard to make ebony tea. .

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