What traditional food should I eat in summer?

Traditional foods eaten in summer include duck meat, longan, lotus root, pomegranate, white balls, corn, herbal tea and sour plum soup. Summer is a solar term reflecting the temperature change. The time point is August 23 of the Gregorian calendar every year, and "going out" means ending, which means that the summer heat is over, the temperature gradually drops, the weather turns cold and it enters autumn.

The meaning of summer heat

The heat means that the hot heat is coming to an end. Summer vacation is the "summer solstice", which is the 14th solar term among the 24 solar terms, indicating that the hot summer is coming to an end. As long as you persist, you will be able to usher in cool weather. Generally speaking, there will still be continuous high temperature after the intense heat, which will usher in the cool weather of the Millennium.

In other words, although the arrival of the summer heat means that the hot weather is coming to an end, it is not over, and it will continue to be hot for a while. At this time, the climate characteristics are mainly autumn tigers, with sultry weather and thunderstorms. The weather is cloudy and sunny, the sun is strong, the temperature is rising, the weather is sultry and the air is dry, so we need to pay attention to prevent "autumn dryness". There are many folk activities in summer, such as eating ducks, setting off river lanterns, opening fishing festivals, decocting medicinal tea and offering sacrifices to the land.