Venue: Yulin, Guangxi

On the day of summer solstice every year, Yulin people like to get together with friends to eat dog meat and lick litchi; If you can't eat dog meat or are afraid of litchi getting angry, there are other foods, wines and snacks to entertain tourists. In short, enjoy yourself.

Guangxi Yulin Dog Meat Festival is held every year from summer to Sunday in the United States, so 20 19 Guangxi Yulin Dog Meat Festival is held on June 2 1 day. This festival is unique to Yulin people. This day, regardless of men, women and children, will be held on time even at a high temperature of 30 degrees. Yulin people only know that the solstice in summer is a festival to eat. As for when the dog meat festival came into being, what is its origin and its cultural origin, most people in Yulin don't know.

Holiday ingredients

lychee

Litchi is a precious fruit in southern China, which is as famous as banana, pineapple and longan.

Four major fruits in South China. Yulin is rich in litchi, with many varieties and good reputation.

With the arrival of summer, as a special product of South China, fiery red litchi is also full of streets and lanes. From Du Mu's Smile when the Red Dust Riding a Princess, no one knew that it was Lychee Lai and Su Dongpo's Three Hundred Lychees. They did not hesitate to write a few famous sentences of Lingnan people. Litchi enjoys numerous reputations, and the sweet litchi has won people's love. Li Shizhen introduced litchi in Compendium of Materia Medica: Eating litchi regularly can strengthen the brain and body, cure carbuncle and furuncle, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen. Drying can replenish vitality and is a tonic for the old, the weak and the sick.

dog meat

Dog meat, in some areas of China, is also called fragrant meat or broken sheep. Dog meat is not only high in protein, but also has obvious effects on enhancing human disease resistance, cell vitality and organ function.

For China, dog meat has been in the menu for a long time, which is also a kind of food culture. Li Shizhen, a great doctor in Ming Dynasty, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that eating dog meat has the effects of calming the five internal organs, benefiting qi, nourishing the kidney and stomach, warming the waist and knees, strengthening the tendons and bones, nourishing the blood vessels and strengthening the lower energizer. Dog meat is regarded as a delicious food by many people, and it is also regarded as a nourishing medicine beneficial to health. In addition, dog meat tastes mellow, so it is favored by people. There is a custom of eating dog meat in winter all over China.

Dog meat and lychee, two seemingly unrelated but easy-to-get-angry foods in TCM theory, were put on the solstice of hot summer, and a food festival was born. Northerners eat watermelons with stoves in winter, while Yulin people eat hot pot with bare arms in summer. Yulin is famous for dog meat, litchi and summer solstice dishes. The solstice in summer is an important festival in Yulin, and this time is also the golden season for fresh litchi to go on the market. In this early summer festival, at night, the dog meat stalls in the urban-rural fringe and streets are packed, full of people and extremely hot. People sit around the hot pot at the dining table, eating dog meat and tasting fresh litchi, or soaking litchi in wine and drinking litchi wine, chatting while eating, punching cards and guessing codes, and being in high spirits. People who are interested will hold a banquet all night, which is called the carnival in Yulin.