Can eating dog meat on the solstice get angry in summer?
People will get angry when they eat dog meat in summer. Dog meat is warm and invigorates vitality. Only suitable for autumn and winter. Eating dog meat in hot summer is not good for your health. However, people think that the summer solstice is an exception. Eating dog meat in summer solstice will not only cause discomfort, but also be beneficial to the body.
So why isn't it hot to eat dog meat on the summer solstice? This may be related to the fact that dog meat can replenish the body and create ominous legends. According to relevant data, in the second year after Qin Degong ascended the throne in the Warring States period, June was very hot and epidemic was prevalent. Qin Degong ordered his subjects to kill dogs to ward off evil spirits according to the saying that "dogs are yang animals, which can bring misfortune", and later gradually formed the custom of killing dogs in summer.
In addition, there is a folk saying, "Eat dog meat from summer to day, and the west wind will take a detour", to the effect that people can resist the attack of the west wind and bad rain, catch fewer colds and be healthy as long as they eat dog meat from summer to day. Just like the popular treatment of winter diseases in summer, the folk song "make summer, eat tonic" also shows that tonic begins in the long summer. It is based on this beautiful wish that the unique folk food culture of "eating dog meat from summer to the sun" came into being.
Of course, eating dog meat in the summer of solstice should be enough. After all, dog meat is warm and dry, so it is not advisable to eat more, so as not to cause indigestion and gastrointestinal heat accumulation. Professional doctors pointed out that, relatively speaking, it is best to eat some nourishing and cool foods in summer to relieve the heat, such as: crucian carp and red bean soup, cucumber (or cold melon) sparerib soup, fish head and tofu soup, winter melon and lentil duck soup, dried tangerine peel soup and so on.
At the same time, people can also cook red bean paste, mung bean paste, millet porridge, sago tremella rock sugar porridge, mung bean and ginkgo porridge, bean jelly, lotus seed soup, bean curd, sweet potato soup and so on. When the weather is getting hotter and hotter from summer to Sunday, you can drink traditional, very moist and sweet foods, such as tremella papaya syrup, cold soybean milk, sugarcane root herbal tea and sour plum soup, but diabetics should not eat too many desserts.
Benefits of eating dog meat from summer solstice
Eating dog meat in the summer of solstice contains a certain theory of TCM health preservation. Traditional Chinese medicine is known as "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter". That is to say, the temperature rises gradually in spring and summer, people go out one after another, activities increase relatively, and sweating increases. Especially in summer, the summer heat is pressing, which often leads to excessive yang, or excessive gluttony of cold food and cold food because of heatstroke prevention, which makes the yang in the body weak.
Don't record that dog meat "protects the five internal organs and makes up for injuries", while Biography of Lin Yi says that it "makes up lung qi, strengthens kidney qi, strengthens camp and health, and strengthens waist and knees". Chinese medicine believes that eating dog meat often is beneficial to deficiency of both spleen and kidney, fullness of chest and abdomen, abdominal distension and edema, soreness of waist and knees, cold malaria and chronic ulcer.
Why do you eat dog meat on the summer solstice?
Eating dog meat in the summer of solstice may be related to the fact that dog meat can supplement the body and create ominous legends. According to relevant records, in the second year after Qin Degong ascended the throne in the Warring States period, June was extremely hot and epidemic was prevalent. Qin Degong ordered his subjects to kill dogs to ward off evil spirits according to the saying that "dogs are yang animals and can bring misfortune". Later, the custom of killing dogs in the summer of solstice was formed.
"Eat dog meat from summer to day, and the west wind detours", which means that when people eat dog meat from summer to day, their bodies will be able to resist the invasion of the west wind and rain, catch fewer colds and be healthy. It is based on this beautiful wish that the unique folk food culture of "dog meat from summer to day" in Guangdong and Guangxi has been achieved.
The custom of eating dog meat in summer has been passed down to this day. On the one hand, there are superstitious reasons such as avoiding evil spirits, and some citizens think that "eating dog meat from summer to Sunday can be full of energy and good luck" and "can be promoted and made rich"; On the other hand, it is because dog meat nourishes and warms the stomach. After the summer solstice, farmers have to harvest and cultivate, and their physical strength is very high. Eating dog meat can strengthen their physical strength. Dog meat is a hot food, so many people just taste it symbolically now. Many people drink a bowl of herbal tea before and after eating dog meat.