What do you eat in solar terms and what traditional foods do you eat in summer?

Summer food: Monopterus albus, mung bean sprouts, mung beans and new rice.

Monopterus albus: There is a folk saying that "Monopterus albus participates in summer". Monopterus albus is the most nourishing recently. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Monopterus albus is warm and sweet, and has the functions of nourishing middle warmer, nourishing liver and spleen, removing rheumatism and strengthening bones and muscles. It is most suitable to eat Monopterus albus in summer, which can prevent diarrhea caused by indigestion in summer and protect the cardiovascular system.

Mung bean sprouts: The third treasure of summer solar terms is mung bean sprouts. Eating mung bean sprouts often can clear the stomach, clear away heat and toxic materials, remove damp heat and clean teeth, which has a good health care effect. Clinically, mung bean sprouts decoction is used to treat traumatic infections such as furuncle and scald. Riboflavin contained in mung bean sprouts can be used to treat oral ulcers, regulate five internal organs, dredge meridians and relieve toxins, and can be used for excessive drinking, damp-heat stagnation, anorexia and physical weakness.

Mung beans: Mung beans are sweet and cool, and have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. In summer, people sweat a lot, body fluids are lost, and the electrolyte balance in the body is destroyed. It is the most ideal way to supplement it with mung bean soup. It can not only clear away heat and relieve summer-heat, replenish qi to quench thirst and induce diuresis, but also replenish water and inorganic salts in time, which is of great significance for maintaining water-liquid electrolyte balance.

New rice: In the past summer, there was a folk custom of "eating new rice", that is, after the summer, 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. Therefore, there is a folk saying that millet is eaten in summer and grain is eaten in summer.