Core Tip: "beginning of autumn" is the 13 solar term among the 24 solar terms, and it is also the first solar term in autumn. It starts every year when the sun reaches 135 degrees around August 7th. Although beginning of autumn has arrived, it is "different in Wan Li all year round." . In meteorology, the standard of autumn is that the local average temperature for five consecutive days is lower than 22 degrees Celsius, so it can be considered as autumn, and the last days of the dog days are still after beginning of autumn.

Chinese medicine says that beginning of autumn is divided into "long summer" from autumn to autumn, so it is advisable to drink health-preserving soup to relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Recommend a healthy soup-red bean, barley, melon and sashimi soup.

Boiled raw fish soup with red beans, barley and melon (3-4 people)

Materials:

30g adzuki bean, 20g coix seed, 600g wax gourd, 3 candied dates, fresh fish 1, lean meat 150g and 4 slices of ginger.

Steps:

1. Wash the materials separately; Wax gourd cut into pieces; Soaking Semen Phaseoli and Coicis Semen; Peel candied dates.

2. Wash the fresh fish and fry until it is slightly yellow.

3. Put all the soup materials into the pot, add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowl), simmer for about an hour after the fire is boiled, and add appropriate amount of salt.

Analysis of soup ingredients:

Adzuki bean: Li Shizhen praised adzuki bean as "the valley of the heart" in Compendium of Materia Medica. It is flat and sweet, enters the heart and small intestine, can dredge waterways, reduce swelling and jaundice, and clear away heat and toxic materials. The theory of medicinal properties also says that it can "ventilate and strengthen the spleen and stomach".