Maybe you will ask, why do you want to drink sour plum soup in dog days? This should start with the dog days.
The dog days, which appear between the hot summer and the hot summer, are the days with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry weather in a year. "Notes on Suburb Sacrifice in Hanshu" said: "Those who lie down say that Yin Qi will get up, but they are forced by the sunset, so they hide because of their names."
The "fu" in the dog days refers to the "fu evil", which means that yin is forced to hide underground by yang, that is, the summer evil in the "six evils" (namely "wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire").
Every year from solstice to summer, according to the arrangement of dry and branch days, the third Geng Day is the first month. Starting from the fourth Geng Day, it is China, starting from the first Geng Day in beginning of autumn, and ending. Gengri's "Geng" is the seventh word in the ten-day work, and Gengri is repeated every ten days. When there are four Geng days between summer solstice and the beginning of autumn, the middle part is 65,438+00 days, and when there are five Geng days, the middle part is 20 days. Therefore, the middle part of the last day is sometimes ten days, sometimes twenty days, and the "initial" and "last" days are both 65,438+00 days.
This year's dog days:
Fu Tou: July 6 to July 25, 2006.
Zhongfu: July 26th-August 14.
Terminal: August1May-August 24th.
It's hot and hot in dog days, and many people like cold drinks. Eating too much ice cream will easily lead to moisture invading the body, which will make the water wet and strengthen the spleen, affect the rise and fall of the spleen and stomach, cause digestive dysfunction, and lead to loss of appetite. In fact, if you want to relieve summer heat in dog days, you should eat/drink more warm and sour food/water, and sour plum soup is a sweet and sour product.
Sour plum soup is cool and delicious, it can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and it can also produce fluid and eliminate fire. It can play a good role in relieving and preventing symptoms such as sore throat and sore tongue.
Here's a bowl of authentic sour plum soup from Amway:
Ingredients: ebony 30g, hawthorn 25g, licorice 10g, dried tangerine peel 5g, Luoshen flower 5, crystal sugar and osmanthus fragrans.
Practice: Wash the ebony, hawthorn and licorice. , Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and Luoshen Flower, put them into a casserole, add about 2 liters of water, soak them for 1-2 hours, boil them on low fire for half an hour, add rock sugar, turn off the fire, filter, sprinkle with a little osmanthus, and let them cool.
Precautions:
1. Most of the ingredients are traditional Chinese medicines. It is recommended to buy it at a drugstore. Usually a pair comes down, ranging from 5 to 30 yuan. The boutique of Tong Ren Tang will be more expensive.
2, because they are all Chinese medicines, it is recommended to use casserole;
After cooking once, the amount of rock sugar can be adjusted according to your own preferences.
After drinking such sour plum soup, you will find it boring to drink sour plum soup mixed with sour plum powder in the restaurant!