What should I eat in summer?

Cao Xian, also known as Xiancao and Cao Xian, is a herb belonging to the genus Cao Xian in Labiatae. It 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. It can also be used as medicine. 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.

Make up three or nine in winter and three days in summer. The nutritional components of poultry meat are mainly protein, followed by fat, microorganisms and minerals. Compared with livestock meat, poultry meat is a low-fat and high-protein food, and its protein is also a high-quality protein. Birds such as chickens, ducks and pigeons are the best choice for summer tonic.

There is a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat broilers in summer. Broiler refers to a cockerel that can't crow, but has just matured but hasn't been bred yet; Or a cockerel weighing 1 kg for three months to 1.5 kg, which has never been bred. Later, there was a special variety called broiler. Broiler contains certain growth hormone, which has a good nourishing effect on children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level.

Duck is a kind of nutritious waterfowl. Every 100g duck meat contains protein 16.5g, fat 7.5g, and also contains nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins and carbohydrates. Living in water all the year round, it is cool, and it has the effects of nourishing the yang of the five internal organs, clearing the heat of deficiency and fatigue, enriching blood and activating blood, nourishing yin and stomach, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Especially after a winter and a spring feeding, the bones of the old ducks are stronger and the muscles are fuller. Can be used for treating edema, insomnia due to yin deficiency, sore toxin, convulsion, and epilepsy. Duck meat is called "panacea" in "Records of Famous Doctors", which is a top-grade tonic. There is also a folk saying that "an old duck wins in summer." When the old duck stews soup, it can be eaten by adding vegetables such as lotus root and wax gourd to make soup, which can tonify deficiency, relieve summer heat and strengthen yang. Combined with Gordon Euryale seed and Coix seed stew soup, it has better aphrodisiac effect, can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and stimulate appetite.

Pigeons have the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting qi and blood, expelling wind and detoxifying, nourishing qi and blood, and calming the nerves, and are especially suitable for mental workers and neurasthenia.

But generally speaking, summer heat is a solar term rather than a traditional festival, so there is no universal custom or anything.