What are the traditional foods in the summer season?

The weather is hot in the Great Summer Festival, what are the traditional foods in this last festival of summer? Here is a look to find out.

China's large to a festival, small to a festival will have related customs. Turning to the arrival of another year of summer summer festival, every year the summer festival will have to eat the food, this year will not be an exception. What is good to eat in the summer? What traditional foods do you eat in the summer?

What traditional food to eat in the summer festival:

1. Eat grass

Many places in Guangdong in the summer season have "eat grass" custom. Fairy grass, also known as cool powder grass, fairy grass, Labiatae cactus genus of herbaceous plants, is an important medicinal and food plant resources. Because of its magical effect of summer heat, known as "fairy grass". After drying its stems and leaves in the sun, it can be made into roasted fairy grass, which is called Liang Fan in Guangdong, a dessert to reduce summer heat.

2. Eat cold vegetables

Southerners also like to eat a variety of cold vegetables before and after the summer festivities, most of them are simple to make and economic dishes, such as sprouts mixed with oil tofu, mixed with cold bean curd, have a crispy cool texture, which allows people to bring up the appetite. There will be seaweed, green pepper, red pepper with soy sauce, vinegar, ginger and other flavored cold three silk, but also the summer wine with a good wine, the feast of cold three silk can be seen in the fish, asparagus and roast duck figure.

3. Eat lychee, mutton and rice bad

Fujian Putian people in the summer season have eaten lychee, mutton and rice bad custom, called "over the summer". Some people say that eating lychee in the summer, its nutritional value and eat ginseng as high. The rice is mixed with white rice and let it ferment and ripen into lees; on the day of the summer, it is cut into pieces and boiled with brown sugar, which is said to "replenish vital energy". On the day of the summer, friends and relatives, often to lychee, mutton to give each other.

4. Drink the old winter melon fresh lotus leaf soup

In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta area on the day of the summer or the hot weather, almost every family is boiled summer soup. Old winter melon and fresh lotus leaf summer soup is a traditional Guangdong folk dietary soup to eliminate summer heat. It is mainly composed of old winter melon, fresh lotus leaves and red beans.

5. fried grass tofu

Wenzhou summer custom to fry grass tofu. Grass tofu refers to the use of grass, licorice, Xia Gu Cao and chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and other herbs fried into the shape of tofu, cooled to eat, cool, detoxification, thirst. In the past, many families were able to make their own food.

6. Drink ginger tea

Sun ginger, drink ginger tea, eat ginger egg is Taizhou people on the day of the summer food customs, because ginger can remove the body's dampness, and therefore inherited down through the generations. Taiwan people are very popular in the summer this day to eat cactus and pineapple, legend has it that this time of the pineapple is the most delicious, cactus is also a famous local snacks, has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification.

7. Eat chicken

Southerners in the summer days have the habit of eating chicken. There is a traditional method of supplementation, that is, the summer to eat the children's chicken. Children's chicken body contains a certain amount of growth hormone, in the growth period of children and hormone levels decline in the middle-aged and elderly people have a complementary role. When you add the right amount of ginger to the chicken, it regulates the temperature difference between the human body inside and outside the summer, which makes the human body adapt to the external environment, and plays a role in removing the dampness and strengthening the body.

8. Drink old duck soup

North and south of the widely circulated recipe is - summer duck race tonic, to the old duck slow stewed to add lotus root, winter melon, gorgonzola, Coix lacryma to soup, summer nourishment. The old duck is the summer days of the good clean, it is not only rich in nutrients, but also because of its perennial life in the water, the sex of the cool, nourishing the five organs of the Yang, clearing the heat of the deficiency of labor, blood line water, stomach, the efficacy of the Jin.

9. Drink ambrosia

After the summer heat into the ambrosia, one of the habits of the summer people drink ambrosia, especially in Jiangxi and other places, people in the summer days have to drink tea custom, many people will also be the backyard sun-dried plums to make plum tea to drink.

What to eat in the summer

1, lotus root

Lotus root has the spleen and stomach, heart and mind, blood and gas effect, is a good summer heat food. Lotus root can also promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so as to achieve the role of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach, eliminating flatulence and smoothing gas.

2, tea

Drinking a cup of hot tea is a treasure of summer. Drinking hot tea can prompt the pores to open, promote the secretion of sweat glands, but also diuretic, which helps to lower the temperature. British scientists have shown that the cooling capacity of hot tea greatly exceeds that of cold beverages, and it is the best of the summer drinks.

3, lotus leaf

Lotus leaf taste bitter and flat, gas aroma, good summer evil to melt turbidity. In summer, such as fresh lotus leaves wrapped round-grained rice, or fresh lotus leaves tea, all have the effect of clearing the summer moisture.

4, duck

As the saying goes: "anti-bitter summer eat eat duck". Duck meat is rich in protein and other nutrients that people desperately need in the summer, and can prevent and cure diseases. Duck is a waterfowl, cold, from the Chinese medicine "hot cold" principle of treatment, where there is heat in the body is suitable for people eating duck, weak, loss of appetite, fever, dry stools and edema people eat more beneficial.

5, lotus seeds

Lotus seeds can both strengthen the spleen and nourish the heart, is a very peaceful drug, lotus heart can clear heat to reduce heart fire. Lotus seed has the effect of clearing the heart and removing vexation, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and can also nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind, which has a better therapeutic effect on the heart and sleeplessness caused by summer heat in summer.