What to eat in hot summer is good for cooling down and keeping healthy.
Eat lychees
In the summer heat, according to Putian custom, every household should eat litchi, which is called "passing the summer heat". The summer solar term is one month after the rainy season. At this time, although the weather is hot, the summer heat dominates the yin, and the human body is vulnerable to summer dampness and even gets sick. Eating litchi can enhance the body's disease resistance to drive away the heat and humidity in summer. At the same time, litchi contains a lot of glucose and vitamins, which is rich in nutrition. Eating fresh litchi can nourish the body.
Mix eggs with ginger juice.
There is a folk saying: eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. In Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating ginger juice to adjust eggs in summer. Ginger juice can eliminate moisture in the body, and ginger juice can adjust eggs and "replenish people". There are also elderly people who like to eat chicken porridge, which means they can tonify yang. In Shanxi and Henan, when summer is hot, people slice or juice ginger, mix it with brown sugar, put it in a container, cover it with gauze and dry it in the sun. After fully blending, it has a miraculous effect on stomach cold, cold and cough, and has a warming and health care function.
Eat pineapple
During the hot summer, there is a custom of eating pineapples in Taiwan Province Province, China, and people think that pineapples are the best at this time. From the point of view of health, pineapple is rich in nutrition, has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, and diuresis, and is the best fruit for relieving summer heat. In addition, the pronunciation of pineapple in Minnan dialect is the same as that of "Wanglai", so it is also used as a symbol of praying for peace, good luck and prosperous business.
Eat every six months.
Before and after the summer heat, it is June 15th of the lunar calendar, which is half of the whole year. Taiwan Province Province is also called the "Semiannual Festival". On this day, after worshipping God, the whole family will be together for "half a year". Half-year rings are made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and rubbing it with red noodles. Most of them will be made into candy to taste, symbolizing reunion and sweetness.
Drink sheep in summer
In summer, southern Shandong has the custom of "drinking summer sheep", that is, drinking mutton soup. In Zaozhuang city, many citizens go to the local mutton soup kitchen to "drink summer sheep" in the hot summer. From a health point of view, dog days mutton is the most nutritious. On a hot day, people tend to accumulate heat in their bodies. If you drink Chili oil vinegar garlic mutton soup, your body will sweat a lot, and the heat and toxins accumulated in the five internal organs will be excreted with sweat, which is good for your body.
Drink old duck soup
"The summer heat is followed by the summer heat, and it is too hot to hide." The "great summer heat" in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar is the hottest time of the year. People in Nanjing like to eat ducks. Duck soup is popular in old Nanjing in hot summer, because ducks live in water in hot weather and duck meat is cold. Chinese medicine believes that duck meat has the effects of nourishing the five zang-organs and yang, clearing away heat and relieving fatigue, nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production. There is a folk saying that "an old duck wins the tonic in summer".