What traditional food do you eat in summer in the north?

In summer in the north, we usually eat noodles, jiaozi, eggs, lotus seed soup and mutton soup. Around the Great Summer, it is the hottest, fastest-growing and most critical period of the year. Because it is a hot season, people pay great attention to diet in dog days, which is called "sticky fat" in the north. At this time, the custom of northerners is to eat noodles, jiaozi and eggs.

According to historical records, the eating habit of eating noodles in rainy days began at least in the Three Kingdoms period. Because every dog day, people have a bad appetite. In the traditional customs of China people, pasta is food to satisfy the appetite. In the past, people's living conditions were very poor, and they had a bad appetite in the cold summer. When they fell asleep, they had just finished harvesting wheat. Eating jiaozi is a way to improve their lives.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus seeds are sweet and flat, and have the functions of nourishing the spleen and astringent intestines, nourishing the heart and benefiting the kidney. Drinking lotus seed soup every day in summer can strengthen the heart and ambition, nourish the heart and benefit the spleen. Middle-aged and elderly people eat it, which makes people healthy and beneficial to health. It is scientific to drink lotus seed soup in summer to prolong life.

In southern Shandong, there is a custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) when the heat comes. In Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, many citizens want to "drink summer sheep" in summer, which is said to be related to local farming and climate. Zaozhuang is a famous wheat producing area. Lodging is the time when the wheat harvest is over and the new noodles are on the market. It is a short slack season.