The eleventh section of the twenty-four solar terms,

It is also the fifth solar term in summer.

Represents the official start of the last month of summer.

On this day, the sun reached longitude 105 degrees.

The weather has officially entered a hot period.

But it's not the hottest yet,

So this solar term is called Xiao Shu.

dog days

It usually happens between midsummer and hot summer.

This is the hottest, wettest and sultry time of the year.

In the summer, it began to enter the dog days.

There will be no cool wind on the earth, and there will be heat waves in the wind.

As summer is light, people are ready for the heat.

How to escape the heat in hot summer without air conditioning?

In the days when there was no air conditioning in ancient times, it was necessary to rely on ice to cool down on hot days ~

In ancient China, there was a long history of storing ice cubes in winter for use in summer. As early as the pre-Qin period, there was something called an ice guide in the court, which was used to hold ice cubes and cool food and drinks. It can be said to be an ancient refrigerator. Of course, in winter, you have to cut out the ice and put it in the ice room, so there is a sentence in the Book of Songs that "cut the ice the next day and suck it in the shade the third day".

Then come to the frozen fruit. Watermelon is something that adults and children love to eat. When you sit in the shade and take a bite of watermelon, it's not so hot just thinking about it.

Watermelon is a particularly good fruit to relieve summer heat and replenish water. There is a famous prescription in Chinese medicine called "White Tiger Soup". Watermelon has the same effect, so it has the reputation of "natural White Tiger Soup".

Tomatoes can produce fluid to quench thirst, and have a good effect on summer fever such as thirst, irritability and indigestion.

In addition to these physical cooling methods, for ancient intellectuals, it may be a matter of mood. The great poet Lu You has two words in his poem Summer:

The so-called calm and natural cooling probably means this.

It will be autumn soon after the slight summer heat. In order to cope with the heat of the hot summer, the people also summarized some targeted foods.

In hot summer, most people will feel bad appetite. Therefore, at this time, the diet should choose more light foods, and the ingredients are mainly spleen-strengthening, summer-cooling and dampness-removing.

In many parts of our country, there is a custom of "eating lotus roots in summer".

It is said that this custom began in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, lotus root is homophonic with "even", which means that a pair of people are full. Of course, lotus root also has the function of strengthening the spleen and appetizing, which is suitable for summer consumption.

Eating jiaozi on the head is a custom in northern China. Fukui people have poor appetite and tend to weigh less than usual, which is called bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is a food to stimulate appetite and relieve hunger.

Some places in Shandong eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, and eat eggs in the morning without eating other foods.

In some areas in the south, there is a saying that "Monopterus albus competes with ginseng for food in light summer", and it is a good time to eat Monopterus albus before and after light summer.

As a kind of food, Monopterus albus has the effect of eliminating dampness and nourishing according to Chinese medicine, and it is the most plump time of Monopterus albus before and after the slight summer heat, which is really suitable for eating.

Finally, I send you a little poem, hoping you can have a cool and happy summer.

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