Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass" in summer. Cao Xian, also known as Xiancao and Cao Xian, is an important medicinal and edible plant resource.

It is known as "Cao Xian" because of its magical effect of relieving summer heat. After drying the stems and leaves, it can be made into Xiancao, which is called bean jelly in Guangdong and is a summer dessert.

2. Eat lychee, mutton and rice.

People in Putian, Fujian like to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains in summer. Some people say that the nutritional value of eating litchi in summer is as high as ginseng.

Litchi is a specialty of Putian, among which Songjiaxiang, Zhuangyuanhong and Eighteen Niang Red are excellent varieties, which are well-known in ancient and modern times. In Putian, litchi matured into a tree full of thyme before and after the heat. According to custom, litchi is often used as a gift between relatives and friends when summer comes.

Rice grains are made by mixing rice with white rice distiller's yeast, allowing it to ferment and fully mature; On the day of the great summer heat, it is said that cutting into pieces and adding some brown sugar to cook can "greatly replenish vitality". On summer day, relatives and friends often give litchi and mutton to each other.

3. Drink old melon and fresh lotus leaf soup

In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta, almost every household cooks summer soup in summer or hot weather. Old wax gourd and fresh lotus leaf soup for relieving summer heat is a traditional diet soup for relieving summer heat in Guangdong. It is mainly composed of old wax gourd, fresh lotus leaf and adzuki bean.

Step 4 eat noodles

When summer comes, Linyi has the traditional custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) or eating noodles in summer. On this day, every married daughter and married son will go back to their parents' home, kill a sheep and cook a pot of cold noodles. The whole family will happily drink mutton soup and eat noodles and have a hot summer.

5, stir-fried grass tofu

The custom in Wenzhou in summer is to stir-fry grass tofu. Grass tofu refers to tofu made from Cao Xian, licorice, Prunella vulgaris, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and other Chinese herbal medicines, which can be eaten after cooling, cool and detoxify, promote fluid production and quench thirst. In the past, many families could cook for themselves.