Long summer is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer. It is hot in summer, so we should pay attention to health care and adjust our diet.

Duck eggs?

This is naturally the first push. Long summer is laying eggs, that is, laying duck eggs. Eating duck eggs can help you recover your strength and supplement other nutrients your body needs. ?

Strawberries?

Early summer is also the time when strawberries are out of season. At this time, eating more strawberries in season is also good for our health, which can help us eliminate toxins from the body.

bitter gourd

After summer, when the weather is hot, there will naturally be the possibility of getting angry, so eating more bitter gourd at this time can prevent getting angry. If you don't like bitterness, you can make it painless by cooking.

mung bean

Mung beans suggest eating mung bean sprouts or drinking mung bean soup, both of which are good choices. The former can clear away poison, while the latter can relieve summer heat.

Dietary customs in the long summer:

China has a vast territory and many nationalities. Every season, the local customs are different, such as the long summer season.

Suzhou changxia diet: see three new things.

"Sanxin" refers to newly matured cherries, plums and wheat.

People worship their ancestors with the "Three Novelties" first, and then the living taste food. Sue Su Long also wants to eat Haisi, gluten, white bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse, salted duck eggs and green beans in summer. On this day, the hotel manager Xia presented wine and soju to the old customers who entered the store without taking a penny, and called it "feed festival"

Changshu Long Summer Diet: Nine Meat and Thirteen Vegetables

"Nine meats" refer to shad, bonito, salted fish, salted eggs, sea cucumbers, elk ducks, salted shrimps, cherry meat and pomfret.

"Thirteen rows" refers to cherries, plums and wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), such as bamboo shoots, broad beans, hairy needles, peas, cucumbers, chicory bamboo shoots, grass heads, radishes, roses and pine flowers.

South Fujian's long summer diet: eat shrimp noodles (summer and shrimp are homophonic in Minnan dialect)

Every household in southern Fujian often mixes red distiller's grains with noodles and cooks them for the whole family. Because the red distiller's grains are auspicious in color, they also have the function of fermentation, thus making people rich. Red distiller's grains are also helpful for digestion and health. Later, this custom evolved, and red distiller's grains were replaced by sea shrimp, which was called "eating shrimp noodles (homophonic with shrimp in southern Fujian in summer)"

Shrimp will turn red when cooked, the same color as red grain, as a wish for summer.