Health food in summer and solar terms
1, vinegar
Vinegar is essential in cooking, especially in summer dishes. In summer, bacterial reproduction is active and intestinal infectious diseases increase. At this time, vinegar can kill all kinds of germs.
2. Duck meat
Duck is sweet, salty and cold. According to the treatment principle of "heat is cold" in traditional Chinese medicine, it is especially suitable for people with low fever, physical weakness, eating less, dry stool and so on.
3. Bitter food
As the saying goes, hot food is "bitter" and better than tonic. Bitter food contains amino acids, bittersweet, alkaloids and so on. It has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, summer-heat dispelling, refreshing, anti-fatigue and other functions.
4.watermelon
Watermelon is sweet and cold, which is also called "cold melon" by the people. It is the first choice for relieving summer heat and quenching thirst among melons. There is a folk saying that "it's half a melon, and it's nothing if it's hot." When heatstroke, fever, upset, thirst or other acute fever occurs in summer, watermelon should be used as an auxiliary treatment.
5, mung bean porridge
Eating more porridge in summer is a traditional health care method in China, which is of great benefit to the body. It is best to drink mung bean porridge, which is cool and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. The porridge used for heatstroke prevention also includes lotus leaf porridge, fresh lotus root porridge and raw reed root porridge.
6. tomatoes
The research results of German and Dutch scientists show that eating more tomatoes can protect against the sun. If you eat 40 grams of tomato sauce every day, the risk of sunburn will be reduced by 40%. Scientists believe that this may be that lycopene is playing a major role.
Summer solar terms custom activities
Boiled mutton wine
That is, "eat mutton and drink soju" in the dog days, "eat soup and cakes in the sun, wipe your sweat with a towel and look charming." The soup cake here is steaming mutton noodles. Even today, it is still very popular in Fengxian, Jinshan and Minhang in Shanghai. This is based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which holds that people should adapt to the change of summer weather, and nourishing the yang should focus on nourishing the heart, which can not only supplement nutrition, but also strengthen the heart by drinking more milk, eating more soy products, chicken and lean meat. Yang-heat qi of the heart not only maintains its own physiological function, but also has a warming effect on the whole body. Water-liquid metabolism and sweat regulation of human body are inseparable from the important role of kaiyang.
Eat "Cao Xian" in summer.
In southern Guangdong and Hong Kong, there is a custom of "eating fairy grass" in summer. Cao Xian, also known as Xiancao and Cao Xian, is an important medicinal and edible plant resource. It is known as "Cao Xian" because of its magical effect of relieving summer heat. After the stems and leaves are dried in the sun, they can be made into fairy grass, which is called bean jelly in Guangdong and is a summer dessert. Folk proverb: if you eat fairy grass in the midsummer of June, you will live like a fairy and never get old. Chiffodil is one of the famous snacks in Taiwan Province Province. You can eat it cold or hot. The appearance and taste of Xiancao is similar to another popular snack in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and it also has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. But this kind of food is taboo for pregnant women.
Send a "summer boat"
This is a traditional folk custom in Zhejiang coastal areas, especially in many fishing villages in Taizhou. Its significance is to send the "five saints" out of the sea and protect people from the heat. When sending the "Summer Boat", a series of blessing ceremonies were held, accompanied by colorful folk art performances. Subsequently, this "summer boat" was dragged out of the fishing port by fishing boats, and then lit on the sea to let it rise and fall, in order to wish people a bumper harvest and a healthy life.
Eat litchi to relieve summer heat
People in Putian, Fujian have the custom of eating litchi, mutton and rice grains during the summer heat, which is called "passing the summer heat". Litchi contains glucose and multivitamins, and it is nutritious. Eating fresh litchi can nourish the body. First, soak the fresh litchi in the cold well water and take it out to taste as soon as summer arrives. At this time, eating litchi is the most pleasant and nourishing. So some people say that eating lychee in summer is as high as eating ginseng.
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In some places, rice and white rice koji are mixed and fermented to ripen thoroughly; In summer, cut into pieces and add some brown sugar to cook.
Specific explanation of the third phase of summer heat
Wait: rotten grass is a firefly.
"Gewulun" said: "Fireflies are transformed from rotten grass and rotten bamboo roots." Also known as. In ancient times when science was underdeveloped, people could only guess and infer those unexplained natural phenomena by subjective consciousness.
In fact, rotten grass for fireflies is about campfire insects laying eggs. Fireflies usually lay their eggs on grass roots near the water surface in summer, and their larvae are buried and pupated, and then become insects in the next spring. The ancients mistakenly thought that fireflies were changed by rotten grass itself, which was just an illusion in their eyes.
In this hot season, people hide in the shade, while fireflies hatch their shells at this time. Although its life is only a short summer, it chose to come to this world in the hottest season, and its spirit of facing difficulties is really admirable. The fluorescent spots at night bring infinite romance and coolness in the heat.
Second class: the soil is hot and humid.
In the Book of Rites, it is said that "the soil moistens the summer heat", that is, the soil is infiltrated and the air is hot and humid-the rainfall is large, the soil and air are moist and the temperature is high, which is the moment when crops grow wildly. Mr. Wen Yiduo wrote in "Summer": "The loofah in our garden climbed the tree, and several small silver gourds hung on the vines, and the newborn cucumbers were as small as olives ..." It was very interesting.
Summer, or humid summer, refers to midsummer. There is also "Su Wenliu and Jacky's Collection": "Four Qi, summer solstice, rain, cold and heat come together." This shows the poison of summer heat. People in "sauna days" are upset; "Dirty heat" makes people sit in summer, the middle is hot and wet, like a beast with two claws, mercilessly eroding people's pleasure and health. But fortunately, the growth of crops makes people full of hope for life.
Third class: when it rains heavily.
Yizhoushu said: "The earth moistens the summer heat. In five days, it will rain cats and dogs, "he said." It rains sometimes, and the country is ungrateful. " The summer heat is the period with the most sunshine and the highest temperature in the basin in a year. It is also the period with the most rain, the most common thunderstorm and the most concentrated and frequent high temperature days in the west of the basin. Therefore, summer is also the season of thunderstorm weather.