Sour plum soup has a history of thousands of years and is one of the oldest traditional drinks in China. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, our ancestors knew that sour plums were used as drinks. The recipe of sour plum soup we drink comes from the royal teahouse in the Qing palace. In the Qing dynasty, sour plum soup was popular in the palace, especially by emperor Qianlong. Sour plum soup is a traditional summer drink, and its raw materials are mainly ebony, hawthorn, osmanthus, licorice, rock sugar and other materials. Authentic sour plum soup must be boiled with rock sugar. Mume and hawthorn can relieve boredom, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen, and plum soup tastes good, avoiding drinking too much polysaccharide.

2, mint tea

Adding sugar and fresh mint leaves to green tea soup is a veritable mint tea, which is a characteristic tea drink in North Africa. As a condiment and drink, mint is a rare treasure, which is very rough and easy to grow. It is suitable for planting and picking in flowerpots or flower troughs at home. Menthol, the leaf extractant of mint, is the main component of cool oil. Peppermint tea can calm nerves, refresh the mind, relieve depression, relieve cough, cool and relieve summer heat.

3. Lemon tea

Lemon tea is a beverage made of lemon slices or tea leaves, honey, sugar and other ingredients. It originated in Britain (some say Russia) and can be used for hot or cold drinks. This drink is rich in vitamin C and other beneficial ingredients. Because it has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving summer heat and reducing temperature, and consolidating slimming effect, lemon is slightly soaked in hot water, then sliced and soaked in water, added with honey, and pickled in a jar, which has a better taste.

4. Mung bean soup

Mung bean soup is a soup with mung bean and water as the main ingredients, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat. Mung bean soup is rich in nutrition, and it is a soup with high economic and nutritional value. Mung bean soup is a traditional summer product in China. Mung bean soup has various cooking methods and tastes, the most important ones are barley mung bean soup, lily mung bean soup, pumpkin mung bean soup and kelp mung bean soup.

5. Chrysanthemum tea

Chrysanthemum tea is a kind of herbal tea made from chrysanthemum, which is made by picking flowers, drying in the shade, sunning and baking. According to ancient records, chrysanthemum tastes bitter and slightly cold, and has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight, and cooling and relieving summer heat. Chrysanthemum tea originated in the Tang Dynasty and was widely used in people's lives in the Qing Dynasty. Add rock sugar or honey after cooling, it's cool. Chrysanthemum tea, as herbal tea in Ming and Qing Dynasties, was widely used in people's lives in Qing Dynasty. With the improvement of living standards, people pay more and more attention to the quality of life, and chrysanthemum tea is more and more loved by people.

6. Houttuynia cordata tea

Houttuynia cordata Thunb, formerly known as water shield, is a kind of tea, which comes from China Pharmacopoeia. It can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, eliminate carbuncle and expel pus. Often used with platycodon grandiflorum, fresh reed rhizome, peach kernel and elephant skin. The fresh leaves of Houttuynia cordata Thunb have a strong fishy smell, so it is named because it can't bear to smell. In fact, this kind of tea not only has no fishy smell, but also has a faint fragrance after being dried in the shade. When the juice is decocted with water, it emits a fragrance similar to cinnamon. If carefully tasted, it also has a taste similar to black tea, which is slightly astringent, without bitterness, fishy smell and no irritation to the stomach.

7. Bitter gourd juice

Bitter gourd juice, named after its own taste, has high nutritional value. Bitter gourd is rich in vitamins B, C, calcium and iron. Li Shizhen said that bitter gourd has the effects of "dispelling pathogenic heat, relieving fatigue, clearing heart and improving eyesight, and relieving summer heat". It is not recommended that children often drink bitter gourd juice, but occasionally it is ok. It is not recommended for people with hypoglycemia to drink it often, because bitter gourd has the function of lowering blood sugar.

8. Mulberry tea

Mulberry leaves recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Mulberry spirit, also known as cicada food. The old man who eats people is a child, and mulberry leaves are also called fairy grass. Japanese call mulberry leaf tea longevity tea. Mulberry leaf is the king of plants and has the reputation of "ginseng tonic, mulberry leaf tonic". Rich in 17 kinds of amino acids, crude protein and crude fat. It is a "medicinal and edible homologous" plant confirmed by the Ministry of Health, and is listed as one of the "Top Ten Health Foods for Human Beings in 2 1 century" by the International Food Health Organization, which has become a new source of green food for human beings. Mulberry leaf tea is brewed with boiling water, clear and bright.

9. Lotus leaf tea

Lotus leaf tea, also known as "lotus seed money tea", originated from Wangtian Lake, the hometown of famous patriotic poet Wen Yiduo, champion of the Qing Dynasty and prime minister Yao Gelao of the Ming Dynasty. According to legend, when Chen Ling took office in Jiaqing, he drank a little lotus leaf tea, a specialty of his hometown. According to ancient and modern medical (food) theories such as Compendium of Materia Medica, Taste Diet Spectrum and China Herbal Tea Prescription, lotus plumule and lotus leaf have the effects of clearing away heart fire, calming liver, purging spleen, lowering lung, clearing heat and nourishing heart. At the same time, China has regarded lotus leaf as a good way to lose weight since ancient times.

10, herbal tea

Herbal tea is the general name of traditional Chinese herbal medicine plant drinks, and Guangdong herbal tea is the representative of Chinese traditional herbal tea culture. Herbal tea is a drink made by boiling Chinese herbal medicines with cold properties, which can dispel the internal heat in the human body, thus eliminating the summer heat in the human body. Herbal tea has a long history. In 306 AD, Ge Hongnan, a Taoist priest of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, came to Lingnan and formed a herbal tea with profound Lingnan culture. Its formula was passed down from generation to generation. Herbal tea has a unique cultural heritage in China. Baozhilin has long been famous at home and abroad because of Huang Feihong, and Wang Zebang, the founder of Wang Lao Ji, also promoted herbal tea.