Xiaoman's eating custom is bitter. Why does Xiaoman eat bitter food?

Bitter dishes are one of the customs of Xiaoman solar terms. The season of bitter vegetables is around Xiaoman, and bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Zhou Shu: Xiaoman Day Bitter Vegetable Show. The Book of Songs: Bitter comes sweet, under the sun. Sophora alopecuroides is all over the country. Medically, it's called Patrinia, Ningxia people call it Sophora alopecuroides, Shaanxi people call it Sophora alopecuroides, and Li Shizhen is called Tianxiao Herb.

Although Xiaoman symbolizes the arrival of a bumper harvest, it is only a time when the green and yellow are not connected. Therefore, in the past, many people had to satisfy their hunger with bitter vegetables. Bitter vegetables have become a unique dietary custom in Xiaoman solar terms. There are many ways to eat bitter vegetables. Stir-frying, cold salad, stir-frying meat, pickling, making soup and stuffing are the important reasons for the formation of this folk custom.

Since Xiaoman, summer crops such as barley and winter wheat have borne fruit, and the seeds are gradually full, but not yet mature, so it is called Xiaoman. But at this time, because the climate will start to blow some extremely dry and hot winds, it is also one of the dangerous moments for crops.

These high temperature and low humidity winds are not only harmful to crops, but also very easy to hurt yin and body fluids, leading to an increase in body heat and a "heat syndrome".