1, because eating mutton in dog days has the highest nutritional level.

In dog days, heat accumulates in the human body. At this time, drinking mutton soup and drinking Chili oil, vinegar and garlic will inevitably make you sweat all over. This kind of sweat can take away the heat accumulated in the five internal organs and expel toxins from the body, which is beneficial to health. Because of its effectiveness, this custom has been retained and accepted by more and more people.

In the past, some places had the habit of eating sheep cream in summer.

Wash 14 or 12 sheep, put in a wok, add radish, ginger, yellow wine and water, and cook. Remove radish and ginger, remove sheep bones, put them back in the wok, add rock sugar and water, and boil the mutton until it is rotten.

Take it out, let it cool, and cut it into small pieces, which is sheep cream. Take one or two or more tablets a day, depending on your situation.

Eating sheep cream in summer gives you reasons to eat mutton in summer, and also gives you tips on eating mutton and shochu in summer.

So there was the Mutton Festival and the Fu Sheep Festival.

3. Drinking mutton soup in summer can stimulate appetite, protect the stomach and increase appetite, especially for women who eat after childbirth.

In the past, every summer, people had the custom of giving each other mutton.

Mutton is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins B 1 and B2, calcium, phosphorus and iron.

Its nature warms the middle warmer, dispels cold, eliminates stagnation, strengthens glands and benefits qi, and warms and tonifies kidney-yang.

Mutton soup is not as hot as chicken soup, and it is warm and nourishing, which is very good for people who are weak to drink mutton soup.

The benefits of squatting to eat mutton:

First of all, after being nourished in spring and summer, the sheep grow fat and tender meat, and the soup stewed with its meat is mellow and the rice tastes small. Therefore, there is a saying of mutton competition in June.

Secondly, in dog days, heat accumulates in the human body, and eating mutton after sleeping in summer is said to clean the stomach, relieve summer heat and eliminate dampness.

In summer, people have more opportunities to eat fruits and vegetables raw, which is easy to cause indigestion. Drinking cold drinks and cold beer can easily make the stomach cold, while mutton can warm the stomach and produce fluid, protect the gastrointestinal tract and dispel the accumulated heat in the body.

Third, there is a saying in Chinese medicine that winter diseases are treated in summer. Eating mutton in dog days will make you strong in winter, especially to keep out the cold. It can prevent all diseases induced by cold pathogens and has a certain therapeutic effect.

Fourth, hot weather is a good time to treat diseases such as cold pain in the waist and knees, cold pain in the abdomen, scapulohumeral periarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, chronic bronchitis, etc. caused by cold winter, which can play a miraculous role in alleviating or curing diseases with twice the effort.

Fifth, eating mutton in dog days can make people sweat a lot, forcing out the evil of yin and cold in the body, thus achieving the effect of "tonic in summer and cold tolerance in winter".

The origin of the Double Ninth Festival:

Double Ninth Festival is a festival with Peng Zu cultural connotation based on Xuzhou folk food customs. In the Peng Zu era, Xuzhou had the custom of eating sheep, and Peng Zu's "Hide Fish and Hide Sheep" was the sublimation of the cooking skills of sheep dishes in that era. [8] According to Hanshu, the emperor "worshiped his grandson and gave him official meat". At that time, the "official meat" was the mutton at the head of the "three animals", and it was certain that Emperor Fukuda and his followers enjoyed mutton. It is not only eating sheep in the palace, but also recorded in Hanshu that "the family worked hard, smoked wax when they were old, cooked and roasted sheep, and competed for wine."

Before the Song Dynasty, the court banquets were mainly mutton. From the structure of Chinese characters, from the aesthetic judgment of "sheep is beautiful", to the pursuit of delicious food of "fish and sheep are fresh", and then to the health care concept of "eating sheep as a supplement", all of them imply the ancestors' pursuit of mutton food and their understanding of mutton cooking.

In Xuhuai area, mutton is well known. Speaking of Xiaoxian, people in Xiaoxian and Xuzhou have the custom of eating sheep in dog days. On the first day of sleep every year, people are used to buying mutton from the vegetable market and cooking it at home. Because Xiaoxian was a county under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou in ancient times, there were frequent folk exchanges between the two places, and there were many restaurants in Xiaoxian, which was also the reason why the festival was quickly developed and spread in Xuzhou later. Xiaoxian mutton has a good reputation for more than 300 years. There are more than 5,000 mutton restaurants in Xiaoxian County, most of which are Xiaoxian white goats that have obtained national geographical indications for 3 to 6 months, and their meat is fresh and tender. The traditional famous dishes in Xiaoxian county are mainly mutton, and there is a saying that "nothing can be done without sheep".