In fact, when we cook winter melon soup in summer, we can learn from the Guangdong people's practice, without peeling it, and stew it with the skin. This can relieve summer heat, get rid of heart fire and lose weight.

However, winter melon is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat more. Usually eat melons at home, it is best to add a little shrimp skin or shrimp skin.

There is another way to eat winter melon, which is to eat it raw. When I was a child, whenever I bought a tender winter melon at home in summer, my parents would carefully cut off a few thin pieces of winter melon with a knife and dip some sugar in it for our children to eat as fruit. The tender wax gourd slices taste cold and refreshing.

Summer is very hot, which makes people fidgety, thirsty and want to drink cold water. This is the heart fire caused by summer heat. After eating a few slices of raw wax gourd, people feel cool and comfortable at once. Some children are always clamoring for cold things like popsicle ice cream, but they are really angry. Eating a few pieces of cold winter melon can help him give up his heart fire.

In the Song Dynasty, Zen master Lin Yue once wrote a poem:

There is not an inch of grass in Wan Li,

How can a stubborn monk ask for it?

Dip in snow and eat melons,

Who knows it tastes good?

"Dip in snow and eat wax gourd" can be said to be bland and tasteless, and it can also be said to be self-knowledge. What I think of is the feeling of eating raw winter melon when I was a child, and my lips and teeth are cool. No matter how hot it is, it can make people feel cool. What kind of cool and refreshing state should a big monk eat wax gourd dipped in Leng Xue in winter? Thinking is desirable.