What dishes to eat in the Great Summer Festival

Da summer is one of the traditional twenty-four seasons in China, each season, people will eat some corresponding traditional food, that Da summer to eat what traditional food? Let's find out!

1, pineapple: folk people think this time of year pineapple is the most delicious. Pineapple is rich in nutrients, with heat, thirst, is the best fruit to eliminate summer heat. In addition, the pronunciation of pineapple in Minnan language is the same as "wanglai", so it is also used as a symbol of praying for peace and good luck, business prosperity.

2, mutton soup: in the summer this day, the southeastern region has "drink summer sheep", that is, the custom of drinking mutton soup. Mutton in the ambient day to eat the most nutritious. Hot days, people are easy to accumulate heat in the body, will be added with chili oil, vinegar, garlic, lamb soup to drink, the body will sweat a lot, and the five viscera heat as well as toxins in the body will be discharged with the sweat, the body is good for the body.

3, lychee: summer, according to Putian custom households to eat lychee, called "over the summer". The summer festival is in the rainy season soon after the month, the human body is easy for the summer, dampness, evil invasion, and even disease, and eat lychee, can enhance the body's ability to fight disease, in order to drive away the summer, dampness. At the same time, lychee contains a lot of glucose and a variety of vitamins, rich in nutritional value, eat fresh lychee can nourish the body.

4, grass: many places in Guangdong in the summer season have "eat grass" custom. Because of its magical effect of summer, known as "immortal grass". After drying its stems and leaves in the sun, it can be made into roasted fairy grass, which is called cold noodles in Guangdong, is a kind of dessert to eliminate the summer heat.

5, lotus seed soup: since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the most prevalent eat lotus seed soup. Lotus seed taste sweet and flat, have the spleen and astringent intestines, nourish the heart and kidney function. Summer daily drink lotus seed soup, can complement the strong Zhi, nourish the spirit and benefit the spleen.

6, 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 and detoxification, thirst and thirst