1. Bitter vegetables

"Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary." In the season of Xiaoman, the diet should be light, but in the past, all kinds of wild vegetables, including bitter vegetables, were on the market. Therefore, on this day, people have the custom of eating wild vegetables and bitter vegetables and clearing away heat and toxic materials. People in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables and mix them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic after cold washing to make them cool and spicy, so steamed bread and rice can greatly increase people's appetite.

2. Wheat cake

Since ancient times, it has been said that Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god. Because there are many silkworms in the south, Xiaoman is an important time node for the hatching of young silkworms and the growth of mulberry leaves, so it pays more attention to "offering sacrifices to the silkworm god". At this time, people will use rice flour or flour as raw materials to make wheat cakes and wheat cakes shaped like cocoons and enjoy them together, hoping for a bumper harvest of cocoons.

Xiaoman solar terms health food:

1. Portulaca oleracea: It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice, gingivitis and other symptoms.

2. Sorghum: It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, eliminating dampness and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for children's dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea due to damp-heat, and diarrhea.

3. Corn: It has the effects of regulating appetite, reducing turbidity and diuresis, and is suitable for urinary calculi or edema of chronic nephritis, hypertension, loss of appetite and other symptoms.

4. Lentils: It has the functions of invigorating spleen, regulating middle energizer, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for vomiting due to summer heat, vomiting due to spleen deficiency, eating less loose stool, diarrhea and edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc.