2, eat bitter gourd. Summer solstice diet recuperation, should be more bitter, salty, cold food. In summer, when heart fire is in season, excessive heart fire will block lung gold. According to the relationship between five elements (summer is fire), 50% (summer is long), five internal organs (heart) and five flavors (bitter), bitter things can also help the heart and control lung qi. Therefore, bitter gourd is the best vegetable from summer to the sun.
Step 3 eat noodles. There is a folk saying that "eating noodles from the summer solstice shortens the day". It is said that after the summer solstice, the position where the sun shines directly on the ground gradually moves southward, and the daytime in the northern hemisphere is getting shorter every day. However, this also illustrates the widespread folk custom of eating noodles from summer solstice to Sunday from another angle. Especially in the north of China, many places have the saying "jiaozi in winter and noodles in summer".
4. Eat new wheat. In some places in Shandong, it is a custom to cook new wheat grains on the solstice in summer. It is both a taste and a game for children to fish for new wheat grains in soup with a small hedge made of new wheat straw.
5. Eat cold drinks. Although different places have different diets in summer solstice, they all have the meaning of cooling off the heat. Everyone is familiar with eating bean jelly, bean jelly, drinking sour plum soup, eating watermelon and serving ice cubes on summer solstice. According to legend, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, officials were in charge of ice and ice room equipment. In the Song Dynasty, people sold iced drinks in the streets, and shaved ice appeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On this day in the long summer, the Qing court gave the minister of civil and military affairs ice.
6. Eat garlic and green onions. There is a lot of rain in summer, and mosquitoes also enter a period of high incidence, which is easy to cause various infectious diseases, especially intestinal diseases such as dysentery. In Compendium of Materia Medica, garlic and scallion have the effects of "dredging five internal organs, dredging orifices, eliminating cold and dampness, eliminating pathogenic factors, relieving swelling and pain, and eliminating food stagnation". Therefore, people are used to eating green onions and garlic in their diet during the summer solstice to reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases.
7. Eat black rice in memory of Pang Juan. People in Hangzhou, Zhejiang like to eat black rice, which is said to commemorate Pang Juan in the Warring States Period. The folk song of Jiande, Zhejiang Province says: "long summer, food supplements." It shows that the summer solstice supplement began in the long summer. People usually eat boiled eggs with red dates and stewed chicken with astragalus to nourish their bodies and prepare for intense agricultural labor in autumn.
8, delicious dog meat in summer. In Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, there is a custom of eating dog meat from summer to Sunday. The custom of eating dog meat from the summer solstice in Kaiping has been passed down to this day. On the one hand, there are superstitious reasons such as avoiding evil spirits. Some citizens think that "eating dog meat in summer solstice can make people full of energy, make money and treasure" and "can promote and make a fortune"; 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.