Has the heat started?

The heat is not the beginning or the first day of Fu Tou. From the time point of view, summer to sunset falls on the third Geng day, so it begins to fall on the third Geng day after the summer solstice solar term, which has nothing to do with the summer heat.

Lotus leaves in summer, lotus flowers in the lotus pond-

Summer, the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, means heat. The high temperature in summer is a little hot, but not very hot. It's getting hotter, but not the hottest. Although the summer heat is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar terms and summer heat in a year. There is a folk saying that "summer heat is hot, steaming is cooking". Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since summer.

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Climatic characteristics in dog days

The climate is characterized by high temperature, low pressure, high humidity and low wind speed. This is the hottest season of the year, because the days are longer than the nights in summer, so the sunshine time is longer. The heat absorbed by the surface is much more than the heat consumed, which will increase the heat accumulated on the surface every day and the temperature will continue to rise. During the period of three volts, the accumulation of surface heat reaches its peak. In summer, there is much rain, the air humidity is high, and the heat capacity of water is much greater than that of dry air, so it is easy to have sultry weather in summer.

What to eat in dog days?

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The arrival of the hot summer means that we are 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.

mutton

During the hot summer, the human body is full of yang, and it is naturally damp and hot. Drinking mutton soup can form an "internal and external attack", so that the cold in the body can be discharged from the body, which plays the role of warming the middle and dispelling cold and warming the qi and blood, thus achieving the purpose of treating winter diseases in summer.

And boiled eggs.

Some places in Shandong eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer. On summer mornings, they eat eggs instead of other foods.

noodles

The custom of eating noodles every day began at least in the Three Kingdoms period. Wei Chunqiu: "It looks charming to wipe your sweat with a towel". The soup cake here is hot noodle soup.

Chinese dumpling

It is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi first. The second person with poor appetite is often thinner than the second person, commonly known as bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is an appetizing and satisfying food.