Dog days in 2020, starting from July 16 and ending on August 24th, totaling 40 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. The "crouching" in "dog days" refers to "crouching evil", which is the so-called "six evils" in summer evil.

The dog days in 2020 will be divided into initial, middle and final days, totaling 40 days, as follows:

Debut: Gregorian calendar/kloc-July 0/6 (May 26th of the lunar calendar)-July 25th, 2020 (the fifth day of the sixth lunar month).

Zhongfu: July 26th (June 6th)-August 202014th (June 25th).

Last day:15 August 2020 (June 26th)-August 24th 2020 (July 6th).

When do the dog days usually appear?

The dog days appear in midsummer and summer heat, and it is the hottest, humid and sultry day of the year. The so-called "dog days" refers to the "dog days" of the lunar calendar, which is the hottest period of the year. It can be understood as "squatting" means that the weather is too hot to move. But the dog days are called "dog days" because there are also many cold factors. The dog days are the hottest 30-40 days in a year in the Central Plains. According to the lunar calendar, it is from the middle and late July to the middle and late August of the solar calendar.

What to eat in dog days?

1, eat mutton with your head down

"Yang Yi Bowl of Soup, without a doctor." As we all know, mutton is a sweaty food and the best food in winter. However, Xuzhou people face difficulties and eat red pepper mutton in the hottest summer of the year. Xuzhou people love to eat Fuyang, which is nothing more than a local folk song: pick up girls on June 6 and make mutton soup with new wheat cakes. Locals believe that this method can "treat heat with heat and detoxify by sweating". Buyang Festival is a traditional festival in Xuzhou. From the beginning of Lunar New Year's Eve every year, in the following month, Xuzhou people gather in hotels, restaurants, mutton restaurants and barbecue stalls to eat mutton and drink mutton soup, so they eat mutton.

2. Eat chickens and ducks in the middle.

Dog days are the most sunny season and the most consumed stage for human body. Some people suffer from hot weather because of poor food and poor sleep, so they have symptoms of summer sickness and bitter summer. Therefore, there is an old saying that "a summer is free from illness, and three points are empty." Therefore, health preservation should conform to the characteristics of abundant yang in summer and pay attention to protecting yang, so dog days are also one of the best opportunities for tonic.

There is a folk saying that "eat a chicken in ups and downs and be healthy for a year." People consume more physical energy in dog days, so they should be properly supplemented with nutrition. You can add ginger when you roast chicken. Ginger is warm, which can adjust the temperature difference inside and outside the human body in summer, make the human body adapt to the external environment, and play the role of eliminating dampness and strengthening the body.

In fact, it is better to eat Abby Mallard chicken in Er Fu, because duck meat is especially suitable for summer. Ducks are waterfowl, and their nature is cold. It is especially suitable for people with fever, weak constitution, loss of appetite, fever, dry stool and edema. It can obtain protein and other nutrients urgently needed in summer from duck meat, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on diseases. There is an old saying that "eat ducks to prevent summer".

3, finally eat lotus root

"Lotus is a treasure, and autumn lotus root is the most nourishing." Autumn season is the time when fresh lotus roots meet the market. Eating some lotus roots can nourish yin and clear away heat, moisten dryness and quench thirst, and clear the heart and soothe the nerves. For the elderly, lotus root is a good ingredient to nourish the spleen and stomach. In addition, lotus root is also a health food for people with hypertension, liver disease, anorexia, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition.

Lotus root is especially suitable for the elderly, women and children, the infirm and sick, especially for people with high fever, vomiting blood, hypertension, liver disease, loss of appetite, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition. Need to be reminded that pregnant women should not eat lotus root prematurely, and it is best to eat it a few weeks after delivery; However, people with low digestive function of spleen and stomach and loose stool should not eat lotus root raw.

Taboos for eating mutton in dog days

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 the daily ratio of mutton and wine is 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 matched 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.