2. Eat cold vegetarian dishes. Southerners also like to eat all kinds of cold vegetarian dishes before and after the summer solar terms. Most of them are simple and economical dishes, such as bean sprouts, bean curd and beans, which have a crisp and cool taste and can arouse people's appetite. There are three kinds of cold-mixed shredded kelp, green pepper and red pepper seasoned with soy sauce, vinegar and Jiang Mo, which are the best products for summer wine. Fish, winter bamboo shoots and roasted ducks can also be seen in the three kinds of cold-mixed shredded kelp at the feast.
3. Eat litchi, mutton and rice grains. People in Putian, Fujian have the custom of eating lychee, mutton and rice grains during the summer heat, which is called "over the summer heat". Some people say that eating litchi in summer is as high in nutritional value as eating ginseng. Rice grains are made by mixing rice with white rice koji, allowing it to ferment and ripen thoroughly into grains; On the day of the great summer, it is said that cutting it into pieces and adding some brown sugar for cooking can "greatly replenish vitality". On the day of the great summer, litchi and mutton are often given to each other between relatives and friends.
4, old melon fresh lotus leaf. In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta area, almost every household cooks summer soup every summer day or hot weather. Old wax gourd and fresh lotus leaf soup for relieving summer heat is a traditional diet soup for relieving summer heat in Guangdong. It is mainly composed of old wax gourd, fresh lotus leaf and adzuki bean.
5, fried grass tofu. Wenzhou summer custom is to fry grass tofu. Grass tofu refers to the use of Xiancao, licorice, Prunella vulgaris, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and other Chinese herbal medicines to make tofu shape, which can be eaten after cooling, cooling and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. In the past, many families could make their own food.
6. Drink ginger tea. Sunbathing ginger, drinking ginger tea, and eating ginger juice to adjust eggs are the food customs of Taizhou people on the summer day. Because ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, it has been passed down from generation to generation. People in Taiwan Province are very popular to eat Xiancao and pineapple on the summer day. It is said that the pineapple is the most delicious at this time, and Xiancao is also a famous local snack, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.
7. eat chicken. Southerners have the habit of eating chicken in summer. There is a traditional folk tonic method, that is, eating broiler chickens in the summer. Broilers contain certain growth hormone, which is beneficial to children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level. When cooking chicken, add appropriate amount of ginger to adjust the temperature difference between inside and outside the human body in summer, so that the human body can adapt to the external environment and play a role in removing dampness and strengthening the body.
8. Drink old duck soup. The recipe widely circulated in the north and south is that the old duck in the summer is better than the tonic. After the old duck is slowly stewed, it is added with lotus root, wax gourd, Gordon Euryale seed and coix seed to make soup to relieve the heat and nourish it. Old duck is a good tonic in summer. It is not only rich in nutrition, but also cold because it lives in water all the year round. It has the effects of nourishing the yang of the five internal organs, clearing away the heat of fatigue, nourishing blood and promoting water circulation, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production.
9, drink tea. After the summer heat falls, one of people's habits to cool off the summer heat is to drink tea, especially in Jiangxi and other places. People have the custom of drinking tea in the summer, and many people will also make dried ebony in the backyard into ebony tea.