When it comes to mutton, what people can think of is eating steaming mutton hot pot in winter and sweating all over. Mutton is a kind of warm food, which seems to be associated with keeping out the cold. I eat too much mutton in winter, so I'm afraid of getting angry. Can you still eat mutton in dog days? Yes, in summer, some people eat mutton and drink a big bowl of shochu, which plays a role in nourishing yin, benefiting qi and strengthening the body. Fuyang, a bowl of soup, does not need a doctor's prescription. In hot summer, Fuyang is mutton. From the first day of Fuyang Festival, eating mutton and drinking mutton soup is a long-standing dietary tradition in the next month. In addition to Xuzhou, Tengzhou and Xiaoxian in Jiangsu, Fengxian Zhuanghang in Shanghai has inherited this custom. These places hold a grand "Fuyang Festival" every year, and even the custom of "Fuyang" has been included in Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage. It is said that the custom of eating sheep in the Voldemort originated from the worship of Emperor Yan and Zhu Rong and the inheritance of Peng Zu's good at cooking sheep, which first prevailed in the Han Dynasty. Yang Hui of the Han Dynasty said in his book Bao Sun: "The Tian family worked hard, waxed when they were old, cooked and roasted sheep, and competed for wine." Now this custom has been handed down. At night, the new wheat is ripe, the new wine is brewed, and the mutton is fat. Many mutton shops offer all-sheep feasts on this day. People go to the mutton restaurant at 5 o'clock every morning, order a table of mutton, sheep liver, sheep belly and so on, and eat and drink with soju. A meal can often last for two hours, which is very rich and enjoyable. According to the locals, after eating this way, you don't have to be afraid of the cold in winter, and you don't have to wear cashmere sweaters. Less than 10 am, mutton is out of stock, and people who have eaten "mutton soup" are not satisfied. They often buy big bags of mutton to take home for relatives and friends to taste. Why can eating mutton in dog days prevent diseases and strengthen the body? Chinese medicine believes that "spring and summer nourish yang, autumn and winter nourish yin", and summer, especially after autumn, is the hottest season with the highest yang in a year. At this time, the pores of the skin are opened, and the excess damp heat in the body is discharged from the body. In the process of sweat transpiration, the yang is consumed, and the yang in the body, especially in the spleen and stomach, is relatively weak, so people need to maintain the yang. However, many people crave coolness, blow air conditioners for a long time, and eat a lot of bitter and cold foods such as cold drinks and herbal teas, which makes the spleen and stomach suffer from cold, aggravates the loss of yang in the spleen and stomach, and accumulates cold to help dampness, which can lead to abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite, low back pain, dizziness and fatigue, and cause diseases. Moreover, the hot weather makes people sweat easily and lose appetite. They only like to eat some vegetables and fruits. Coupled with lack of sleep, people's income is less and their expenses are more. Even healthy people may lose weight in summer, that is, "three points without illness." At this time, it is very important to eat some meat and warm food properly to warm the spleen and stomach yang consumed in the body. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, mutton has the effect of "warming the middle warmer to stimulate appetite, tonifying the middle warmer and benefiting qi", so proper consumption of mutton in summer can disperse stagnation, promote circulation of qi, promote blood circulation, clear orifices and eliminate dampness, especially suitable for women with deficiency-cold constitution, yang deficiency and poor blood circulation. Mutton can relieve their back, cold hands and feet, stomachache, indigestion and weakness of limbs. Eat mutton that warms and tonifies yang and drink soju that promotes blood circulation to keep out the cold in dog days. Can open pores that are abnormally contracted due to air conditioning and air conditioning. After sweating, not only the summer heat is completely eliminated, but also the cold in the body is eliminated, and the yang is sufficient. Some diseases with yang deficiency and yin cold are not easy to attack in winter. Sheep are full of treasures, and most of them have therapeutic effects. On Fuyang Festival, people eat sheep from the beginning to the end, from the inside out, including steamed mutton, roast leg of lamb, roast back of sheep and bone of sheep. This "making the best use of everything" way of eating sheep has existed since ancient times. At the banquet of ancient Mongolian court in China, there was the most abundant "all-sheep banquet" with the characteristics of nomadic people in northern China. In the Qing dynasty, the feast of all sheep was also a large banquet comparable to the Manchu-Han banquet. In Yuan Mei's Suiyuan Food List, a gifted scholar in Qing Dynasty recorded "seventy-two methods of whole sheep". Steaming, boiling, frying, explosion, smoking, frying, soup or soup are taken from different parts of a whole sheep, with different colors and tastes, which are very rich. Whole sheep tastes delicious, and the most rare thing is that almost all parts of sheep have therapeutic value. The earliest monograph on food hygiene and nutrition in China, Drinking Diet, mostly talks about how to use sheep to regulate the body. If sheep's heart has the effect of nourishing the heart and relieving depression, it can cure heartache, fright and other diseases; Mutton has the effects of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, warming the middle and lowering the temperature, and can be used to treat physical weakness and emaciation, postpartum deficiency and cold, spleen deficiency and nausea, cold hernia and abdominal pain. Sheep liver has the effects of nourishing liver, nourishing blood and improving eyesight, and can be used to treat diseases such as liver deficiency, decreased vision, glaucoma and cataract. Sheep kidney has the effect of invigorating kidney and essence, and can be used for treating kidney deficiency, strain, lumbago, soreness of feet and knees, deafness, thirst, impotence and enuresis. Sheep fat has the effects of nourishing deficiency, moistening dryness, expelling wind and removing toxic substances, and can be used to treat dry skin, chronic dysentery and tinea. Sheep bone has the effect of tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, and can be used to treat soreness and weakness of waist and knees, muscle contracture pain, turbid urine, etc. Sheep marrow is beneficial to nourishing yin, nourishing marrow, moistening lung and caring skin, and can treat lung fatigue, cough, thirst and bone steaming. Sheep hoof meat has the effect of tonifying kidney and essence; Sheep head has the effect of tonifying deficiency and moistening five internal organs; Mutton tripe has the effect of tonifying deficiency and strengthening stomach, and can be used to treat anorexia, fever of hands and feet, frequent urination, spontaneous sweating, etc. Sheep lung has the effects of invigorating lung qi and benefiting waterways, and can treat lung deficiency, lung dryness and other diseases. Eating Fuyang needs to be reasonably matched with different people, and everyone has their own attributes. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "different from person to person" and "different from time to time". Mutton is warm and can't be eaten in winter. It needs to be eaten reasonably in dog days to achieve the effect of nourishing the body. 1, it is not suitable for people with hot constitution, excessive yang, dry stool and hot heart; People with symptoms of excessive internal heat such as fever, toothache, sores on the mouth and tongue, cough and yellow phlegm are not suitable for eating. People with hepatitis should avoid eating mutton. People with deficiency and cold constitution are more suitable, but mutton and soju should be eaten in moderation, and mutton and wine should be eaten every day 1-2. 2. It is not advisable to eat in a place with low temperature. This is because mutton or mutton soup has the functions of dissipating heat, warming meridians and dredging collaterals. The temperature in "Fu Ri" is generally high, and people's bodies are in urgent need of heat dissipation and perspiration. The temperature in the air-conditioned room is too low, sweat can't be discharged, heat can't be dissipated, and it may even bring other diseases. 3. It is best to adopt simple cooking methods, menu design and eating methods. The popular practice in Xiaoxian County is to cut the mutton into white, cook the mutton head soup, wash the fresh mutton, cook it in boiling water, pour out the boiling water, and then pour in the boiling water, with only a little salt, onion and ginger. The mutton made in this way has less nutritional loss, delicious taste and is not greasy. Dip in salt and soy sauce when eating, without spicy sauce. While supplementing nutrition, you are not afraid of getting angry after eating. 4. You can use cool and sweet vegetables in your diet to cool, detoxify and remove fire. Cold vegetables generally include white gourd, loofah, spinach, Chinese cabbage, Flammulina velutipes, mushrooms, water bamboo, bamboo shoots and so on. Mutton with tofu is the best, which can not only supplement a variety of trace elements, but also play a role in clearing away heat and purging fire, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. If mutton is paired with radish, it can give full play to the role of radish in cooling, resolving phlegm and clearing heat. 5. After eating enough mutton, avoid eating watermelon immediately. Watermelon is cold, which not only greatly reduces the warming effect of mutton, but also easily causes dysfunction of spleen and stomach, so there is a saying that eating watermelon and mutton together "hurts the vitality". In addition, mutton can not be eaten with snails, otherwise it will cause indigestion and bloating; Eating with chestnuts is easy to indigestion and even cause vomiting; Mutton should not be eaten with tea because it will cause constipation. How to buy fresh mutton in summer 1, smell: normal smell, no ammonia, no sour taste. 2, touch: feel warm and elastic, not sticky, and the depression can be recovered immediately after finger pressing. 3, look: the skin has no erythema, the muscles are shiny, the red is even, not white, not yellow or green.