The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in the summer. Ducks, especially Ma ducks in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake, Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cool, and fat and thin. If there is no time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; People who are free will stew "radish old duck pot" or make "braised duck pieces" at home and give them to their neighbors. This is what the saying goes, sending ducks in the summer will save everyone.

2. Herbal tea

The custom of decocting medicinal tea in summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. During the summer, every household has the habit of frying herbal tea. First, they go to the pharmacy to prepare prescriptions, and then they fry tea for drinking at home, which means that they should eat something "bitter" in autumn, which is quite beneficial in clearing away heat, removing fire, promoting digestion and removing lung heat.

If you feel thirsty before and after the summer heat, make tea with Ophiopogon japonicus or Dendrobium, which is dry and cold, to help relieve summer heat and nourish yin; Drinking Sydney with honey and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae in water has the functions of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting fluid production and nourishing lung, and is also suitable for people with qi deficiency. However, you should drink less herbal tea in the summer season, because the summer heat is not serious at this time, and herbal tea is too bitter and cold, which is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and it is also not good for the lungs and kidneys.

3. Sour plum soup

In the sixties and seventies of last century, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup in the streets of Wenzhou city, so there was a proverb that "the sour plum soup in the summer was completely extinguished". Making sour plum soup is very simple. At night, soak dried plums in boiling water and add rock sugar. After cooking and cooling, put it into a wooden ice bucket with a cover to reduce its temperature. It tastes sour and sweet, sweet and slightly salty, and tastes good.

The organic acid content in dark plum is very rich, which can effectively inhibit lactic acid, reduce fatigue and remove harmful substances that age blood vessels. Therefore, drinking Sour Plum Soup in summer and solar terms can refresh the body, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and rejuvenate muscles and blood vessels. In addition, when eating too much meat, drinking sour plum soup can also help balance the pH value in the body.