And to some extent, it plays a role in diet therapy and health care.
Eating summer was first in the Han Dynasty. The diet in the Han dynasty was just "cooking and shooting sheep, and fighting for wine is a kind of labor"
The main purpose of the "fighting party" is to eliminate fatigue. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, eating and drinking in summer developed further. According to Jing,
"Historical Records of the Songs of the South" contains: "Futang soldiers, named to ward off evil spirits. "The ancients used to call summer heat evil, which is called' avoiding evil'.
In fact, it refers to summer. "Soup cake" is a kind of pasta cooked in water. Although the soup cake itself is not a cool food,
But in summer, when you eat steaming soup cakes, you will sweat all over, thus taking away a lot of heat energy in your body. So the ancients flourished.
Eating soup cakes in summer is undoubtedly a good way to escape the heat.
Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, lotus seed soup has been the most popular in Fukui. According to Jingdi's Four-Year-Old Victory, "In June, when Xia Zhishi was born, the food was the most enjoyable.
New. Shi Jing lotus eater II; The inland river is tender and fresh, so it should be exposed for a long time; The outer river is solid and suitable for dry use. ""green barnyard grass
"Banknote" also said: "Mix small ice cubes with fresh lotus seeds and the like in summer" to entertain guests. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus seeds are sexual.
The taste is sweet and flat, and it has the functions of nourishing the spleen and astringing the intestines, nourishing the heart and benefiting the kidney. Drinking lotus seed soup every day in summer can strengthen the heart and ambition, nourish the heart and benefit the spleen. Zhonglao
Young people eat it, and intellectual people benefit from it, making people strong. It is scientific to drink lotus seed soup in summer to prolong life.
It is also a major feature that Chinese herbal medicines chose to spend the summer in Beijing in the Qing Dynasty. According to Kyoto Customs, "Fu Ri,
People who eat more than usual are called "sticking to fat". Or from this date, some people have frozen water, or fried perilla leaves and Huo.
Leaves, licorice and other soups can't be quit in the city, which is called summer soup. "The perilla leaf here, that is, perilla leaf, is perilla in Chinese medicine.
Warm, pungent, functional, cold-dispelling, qi-regulating, phlegm-resolving and cough-relieving. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said: "Stop coughing and moisten the heart and lungs.
, eliminate phlegm. "Middle-aged and elderly people and children drink Suye decoction in summer, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen, tonifying the middle and strengthening the spleen." Licorice ",
Also known as sweet grass, leguminous, perennial herbs. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) uses rhizome as medicine, which is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the function of relieving the deficiency in the middle.
Purging fire and detoxicating, and harmonizing various medicines can cure sore throat and carbuncle.
About 3000 years ago, in the Shang Dynasty, wealthy families began to carve ice in winter and store it in pits for use in the next summer. In the Zhou dynasty, there was a "ling ren" who was in charge of "ice power" During the Western Zhou Dynasty, "Ling Ren" rose to a position in the imperial court, and servants were responsible for making cold drinks, which was enough to show the preciousness of cold drinks at that time. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, vassals loved to drink iced rice wine at banquets. There is a passage in "Chu Ci Evocation" which describes that "drinking frozen rice wine is even worse, and drinking it is more refreshing". I like iced glutinous rice wine, which tastes mellow and cool. In ancient times, there was even an "ice kitchen"-"Wu Yue Chun Qiu" recorded that Gou Jian, the king of Yue, lived in an ice kitchen when traveling. At that time, it was called an air-conditioned room, so you can imagine how much manpower and ice were consumed.
"Ice merchants", that is, commercial ice collectors, began to appear in the Tang Dynasty. Store ice cubes in winter and sell them in summer. There are "ice merchants" who sell ice only by recognizing money but not people, overestimating people's "desires" and self-defeating. According to Tang Yanyan, some people sell ice in the streets in midsummer, and passers-by are so hot that they want to eat it quickly. The ice seller thought that strange goods could live in, deliberately raised the price of ice, and passers-by walked away angrily. After a while, the ice melted and the ice seller lost money. Compared with some real estate developers today, this ice seller is really unlucky.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a new breakthrough in cold drinks. Yang Wanli, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once praised a cold drink called "ice cream": "It seems salty and refreshing, but it is actually condensed and floating; Jade comes to the bottom of the plate, and snow disappears in the mouth. " Kyle Poirot came to China and was rewarded by Yuan Shizu. He happily tasted the royal cold drink "Iced Cheese" (made of fruit juice, milk and ice cubes). Later, Kyle Poirot brought the production technology of "frozen cheese" back to Italy. Italy kept this technology a secret for 300 years, which was bought by the French at a high price, and then somehow spread to Britain. After the British reform, they made the "ice cream" that we often eat today. I wonder if they ever thought of thanking Kublai Khan of China for making a lot of money.
In hot summer, people's tastes are more picky. The mushroom, which absorbs the essence of the morning dew from heaven and earth and gathers the nutrition of the hundred grass trees, has become the most wonderful dish at this time.
The ancients said: "Is it rare in the world? Water is the mushroom of the land. " There is also a saying in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals that "the beauty of taste is the fungus of camel". It can be seen that edible fungi have long been the delicacies of our people's feast. As the saying goes, "Those who eat four legs are not as good as those who eat two legs, and those who eat two legs are not as good as those who eat one leg".
The content of protein in edible fungi greatly exceeds other common vegetables, and at the same time, it avoids the harm of high fat and cholesterol in animal food. According to the determination, protein contained in fungi accounts for about 30%~45% of the dry weight, which is 3~6 times that of ordinary vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, white radish and tomato. Edible fungi not only have a high total amount of protein, but also have a complete range of amino acids, about 17 and 8 kinds, which constitute protein. In particular, edible fungi contain eight essential amino acids. Rich protein provides umami flavor, which is also the secret of delicious edible fungi.
Edible fungi have high nutritional value because they contain a variety of vitamins, especially water-soluble B vitamins and vitamin C, and the content of fat-soluble vitamin D is also high. Edible fungi are rich in iron, zinc, copper, selenium and chromium. Regular consumption of edible fungi can not only supplement the deficiency of trace elements, but also overcome the imbalance of trace elements caused by blind abuse of certain trace elements to strengthen food.
More importantly, the delicious flavor of edible fungi blooms in the dishes, and you can even feel a soft and tender feeling dancing on the tip of your tongue. Recently, Wang Cai bought all kinds of mushroom treasures from Qingyuan City, Jingning She Autonomous County, the only She Autonomous County in China, which is known as "China Gu Xiang", so that readers and citizens can enjoy the real delicious nature.
In summer, edible fungi are good helpers for cooling and detoxifying, such as tremella soup, bamboo sun soup, fried black fungus and so on. In addition, they have more nutrition and health care functions.
Due to the long history, many facts have been given mysterious colors in word of mouth. Let's just listen, it may not be credible.
Ge Hong, a Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, said that eating a medicine called Xuan Bing Pill in summer and another medicine called Xue Feisan and drawing the symbol of "six benevolence and six degrees" would not make you feel hot. Su E in the Tang Dynasty said that there was a kind of cool grass in the world, which was blue in color, as dry as bitter bamboo and as thin as fir leaves. If you put it in the lobby or hang it on the window lattice in hot summer, the cool wind will naturally come. "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao" records that Yang Guifei is obese, Zhixia is bitter and hot, and her lungs are often thirsty. She has a jade fish in her mouth every day to cool her body and nourish her lungs. Li Longji, Xuanzong of Youyang Miscellany, learned that Wang Shen was afraid of heat and gave him a cold snake. This snake doesn't hurt people. Bai Rubing and Wang Shen played it, and the summer heat eased a little. Du Yang Miscellaneous Magazine records that Princess Tongchang, the daughter of Tang Yizong, ordered someone to get "Qingshui Silk" in order to drive away the summer heat. It is eight or nine feet long, as thin as cloth, thin and clear. It's a picture of Long Xianxiang, which is hung on Nanxuan after dipping in water. It's gloomy for a long time.