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The day of the summer 10 essential food in the South

Southern summer to eat what traditional food

1, eat grass

Guangdong many places in the summer season have "eat grass" custom. Fairy grass, also known as cool grass, fairy grass, Labiatae cactus genus herb, is an important medicinal and food plant resources.

Because of its magical summer effect, 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 lychee, mutton and rice bad

People in Putian, Fujian, like to eat lychee, mutton and rice bad in the summer, there are people who say that eating lychee in the summer, the nutritional value of ginseng as high.

Lychee is a Putian specialty, which, such as Song Jiaxiang, Scholar Red, 18 Niang Hong, etc. are excellent varieties, famous in ancient and modern times. In Putian, before and after the summer, lychee is already full of trees, ten miles of ripe time. According to custom, the summer, between friends and relatives, often to lychee as a gift to each other.

The rice bad is mixed with rice and white rice qu let it ferment, through the ripe into the lees; to the day of the summer, it is cut into a piece, add some brown sugar to cook, it is said that can "make up for the vitality". On the day of the summer, between friends and relatives, often to lychee, mutton to give each other.

3, 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 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.

4, 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 can make their own food.

5, eat ginger and eggs

Jiaojiang, Taizhou, people still eat ginger and eggs during the summer festival custom, ginger can remove moisture in the body, ginger and eggs, "complementary", but also the elderly like to eat chicken porridge, said to be able to make up for the sun.

6, drink ginger tea

Sun volts ginger, drink ginger tea, eat ginger egg is Taizhou people on the day of the summer food customs, because ginger can remove moisture in the body, and therefore inherited down through the generations.

7, eat chicken

Southerners have the habit of eating chicken in the summer. Folk have a traditional method of tonic, is to eat chicken in the summer. Children's chicken body contains a certain amount of growth hormone, in the growth and development of children as well as hormone levels decline in middle-aged and elderly people have a tonic effect. The production of the appropriate amount of ginger, regulating the human body in the summer inside and outside the temperature difference, so that the human body to adapt to the external environment, play a role in removing the wet strong body.

8, eat pineapple

Taiwan Province: the summer festival in Taiwan around the sea is mostly covered with warm-water fish stocks, the northeast waters have squid, Keelung off the sea there are small rolls, Chi Zong, Changhua waters are yellowfin snapper and so on. A Taiwanese proverb says: "Eat pineapple in the summer," which means that pineapples are the most delicious at this time of the year. In addition, June 15 is the "Half-Year Festival". Since June 15 of the lunar calendar is the halfway point of the year, the whole family will eat "Half-Year Round" together after worshipping the gods on this day, and the half-year rounds are made of glutinous rice grounded into powder and then rolled with red flour, which are mostly boiled into sweets to savor. The symbolism is reunion and sweetness.

9, drink tea

After the summer heat into the volts, one of the habits of the summer people drink tea, 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.

10, the old duck soup

North and South of the widely circulated recipe is - summer duck race tonic, to the old duck stewed slowly after adding lotus root, winter melon, Gorgon fruit, Semen Coicis to soup, summer nourishment. The old duck is the summer days of the good clean, not only nutritious, but also because of its perennial life in the water, the sex of the cool, nourishing the five organs of the sun, clearing the heat of the deficiency of labor, replenishment of the blood line water, stomach and the efficacy of the Jin.

Summer dietary taboos:

1, avoid drinking a lot of water

People should take a small amount of heatstroke, drink water many times, each time to no more than 300 milliliters is appropriate. A lot of water will dilute the gastric juice, which affects the digestive function, but also cause reflex hyper sweating.

2, avoid simple tonic

After the heat stroke, the summer has not been eliminated, although there is a deficiency, but can not simply tonic. If you think that the body is weak and urgently need to supplement is a big mistake. Because of the early supplementation, it will make the summer heat is not easy to subside, or has been gradually subsided in the summer heat will come back, then it is more than worth it.

3, avoid eating a lot of cold fruits and vegetables

Most of the people in the heatstroke belong to the spleen and stomach weakness, if a large number of cold fruits and vegetables, cold food, will damage the spleen and stomach Yangqi, so that the movement of the spleen and stomach, cold and damp stagnation, the severe cases will appear diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms.

4, avoid eating a lot of greasy food

After the summer should eat less greasy food to adapt to the digestive function of the summer gastrointestinal. If you eat a lot of greasy food will aggravate the burden of the stomach and intestines, so that a lot of blood stagnation in the gastrointestinal tract, the blood delivered to the brain is relatively reduced, the human body will feel fatigue aggravation, more likely to cause indigestion.