"Small summer heat, steaming and cooking", the arrival of small summer heat means that it is about to enter the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, the human body sweats a lot and consumes a lot. Health care must pay attention to supplement physical strength, reduce fever and prevent heatstroke. At this time of year, people have the custom of eating three treasures-Monopterus albus, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts.

2. jiaozi

Eating jiaozi in summer is a traditional custom. People in summer tend to lose appetite and lose weight than usual, which is called bitter summer. jiaozi is a traditional food to stimulate appetite and relieve hunger. Some places in Shandong eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, and eat eggs in the morning without eating other foods. Traditional food for summer festivals: eat new food (eat spicy food)

In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new things in summer", that is, after the summer heat, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, and prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new things" means "eating new things", which is the first new day after the summer festival. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice for cooking in old rice, plus newly listed vegetables.

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You can also eat fried noodles on water in dog days. The so-called fried noodles are fried with flour in a pot, and then stirred with water and sugar. This way of eating was quite common in the Han Dynasty in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, cooked wheat first and then ground pasta, saying that fried noodles could relieve summer heat and relieve diarrhea.

4. Mutton

The custom of eating mutton in Xuzhou can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a saying among the people that Pengcheng has a bowl of sheep soup, but there is no prescription from the imperial doctor. Xuzhou people love to eat Fuyang, which is nothing more than a local folk song: pick up girls on June 6 and make mutton soup with new wheat cakes. The custom of eating noodles in Fukui began at least in the Three Kingdoms period. Wei Chunqiu: Wipe your sweat with a towel when you are in the sun. Jiao Ran, the soup cake here is Hu spicy soup noodles. When Jingchu was old, he wrote: It is evil to eat soup cakes in June. May is an evil month, and June should also be an evil month.

5. Sparus macrocephalus

Summer is the second stage of rice seedling raising in Taiwan Province Province. At this time, the first stage of rice is yellow and ripe, and it is also the rich period of towel gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber and wax gourd. The waters around Taiwan Province Province belong to warm water area, which is also the gathering period of warm water fish. Red snapper is caught on the northern coast of Keelung, while black snapper can be caught in fresh water area.