Xiaoman is the second solar term in summer, so we should avoid eating too much raw and cold food. At the same time, there is more rain in Xiaoman season, which makes people feel very humid, especially in the south. It is best to eat some food that can get rid of dampness. Commonly used dampness-removing ingredients are: coix seed, red beans, chicken feet, pumpkin, lentils and so on. And most of them are soup and porridge. Such as lentils, barley chicken feet soup, Shage pig bone soup, fried barley water and so on.

Humidity is a concept of traditional Chinese medicine. Among the evils of wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire, TCM is most afraid of dampness. Wet is the easiest to penetrate. Damp evil never fights alone, but always colludes with other evil spirits. Moisture becomes cold and wet when it meets cold, just like winter. If the climate is dry, no matter how cold it is, people can still accept it, but if the humidity is high, people will feel very uncomfortable.

Winter in the south is more uncomfortable than winter in the north, because the humidity in the south is heavier and the cold and dampness attack people. When moisture meets heat, it becomes hot and humid, just like a sauna day in summer. Hot and humid, people can't breathe, obviously not as good as when the sun is shining and the climate is dry. When moisture meets the wind, it becomes rheumatism, which is easy to drive away the wind, but once it becomes rheumatism, it is often a chronic disease that cannot be cured for a while.