People in Hangzhou call it "ham on the head and chicken on the feet". Chinese medicine believes that ham has the effects of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, promoting fluid production and benefiting blood. Ham can be eaten all year round, but it is best to eat it in summer. In summer, people often lose their appetite and lack nutrition. Ham is nutritious, not greasy, and can stimulate appetite. Ham and wax gourd are cooked together, which is nutritious and can prevent heatstroke and get rid of diseases. Ham soup also has nourishing effect. Foods rich in vitamin C, such as tomatoes, can be added to eliminate the concern of cancer caused by pickled food. Ham also has the function of accelerating wound healing, and is now used as an auxiliary food after surgery.

2. jiaozi

Eating jiaozi means "Yuan Baofu" on the head, because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and "Fu" is homophonic with "Fu". In the past agricultural society, the wheat harvest was just less than a month. In Man Cang, every family has a valley, and people take this opportunity to have a toothache and eat white flour. In the north, they will definitely eat jiaozi in the dog days. It is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi on the head, because when it rains, people have a bad appetite and can't eat anything, while jiaozi is a food that stimulates and satisfies the appetite in the traditional customs of China people.

3. Chicken

Nanchang "eats chickens and ducks first", Hunan and Jiangxi are adjacent, and the first place is also eating chickens. Relatively speaking, it is scientific for people in Jiangxi and Hunan to eat chicken in dog days. There is a folk saying that "eat a chicken in ups and downs and be healthy for a year." In dog days, people consume more physical energy, so they must be properly supplemented with nutrition. You can add a proper amount of ginger when stewing chicken. Ginger is warm, which can adjust the temperature difference between inside and outside the human body in summer, make the human body adapt to the external environment, and play a role in eliminating dampness and strengthening the body. This can disperse the accumulated cold in the body and prevent the onset of cold diseases in autumn.

The biggest advantage of jiaozi is that it is both a staple food and a non-staple food, and there are both meat dishes and vegetarian dishes. How to keep the shape intact when making jiaozi? In fact, in the process of boiling jiaozi, the water is boiled four times, and it is cooked. Boil water into jiaozi. When the water boils to 1 time, add a little cold water, and then add cold water after the water boils. The total backwater is 3 * * * points, and it will be cooked after jiaozi cooks it for 4 times, which will neither stick nor break the skin easily.

4.wonton

In some southern areas, such as Shanghai, people want to eat wonton. Actually, for southerners, wonton and jiaozi are almost a kind of food. Shanghainese have the saying "Fu Tou Wonton Er Fu Tea". Compared with jiaozi, wonton is thin and transparent when cooked. In addition, wonton is cooked for a short time, and cold water needs to be added several times to ensure thorough cooking. Another point is that jiaozi is heavily dipped, and wonton is heavily soup, especially in Guangdong. Chicken soup and meat and bone soup are the first choice for soup base.

5. Noodles

"June eclipse soup cake, named evil." May is an evil month, and June also touches the edge of the evil month, so it should also be "evil". This is superstition. Grinding new wheat into flour and cooking soup will make you sweat. The new grain is rich in nutrition, and sweating can drive away diseases. It is scientific to eat soup cakes in June. In dog days, you can drink water besides hot noodle soup. Cooked noodles are cooked in cold water, mixed with garlic paste and watered with halogen seeds, which not only stimulates appetite, but also "defeats the heart". Welfare can also eat "fried noodles". The so-called fried noodles are fried and cooked in a pot, and then mixed with water and sugar to eat. This way of eating has existed since the Han Dynasty. It was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but at that time, the wheat was cooked first, and then the pasta was ground. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can "clear away heat and stop diarrhea and strengthen the intestines".

6. Mutton

The custom of Xuzhou people squatting to eat mutton can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a folk saying that "Pengcheng has no prescription for too much medicine, and a bowl of soup squats sheep". Buyang Festival is a traditional festival in Xuzhou. Xuzhou people prefer Fuyang to local folk songs: picking up girls on June 6 and making mutton soup with new wheat cakes. Locals believe that this method can "treat heat with heat and detoxify by sweating".

Eating mutton in dog days is a great pioneering work, which can clear away heat, sweat and detoxify, and drive away the toxic moisture in winter and spring. Doctors suggest that eating Fuyang in summer will lead to a large loss of water and liquid, which will easily lead to electrolyte disorder in human body. The elderly, pregnant women, young children and other weak people are not suitable for sweating a lot. People eat Fuyang, drink plenty of water, avoid excessive sweating, eat more salty food and supplement electrolytes.