1. Eating wild vegetables

Eating wild vegetables is the custom of Xiaoman. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Zhou Shu: Bitter vegetable show on the day of Xiaoman. The Book of Songs: Take pains, under the sun. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Take it for a long time, feel at ease and benefit qi, intellectual fit and be resistant to old age. In medicine, bitter herbs are often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up. Bitter weeds are all over the country, and they are called Patrinia in medicine. Bitter bitter herb is astringent in bitterness and sweet in astringency, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol needed by human body, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.

2. Wheat cakes

Since ancient times, it is said that Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god. Because there are many silkworms in the south, Xiaoman is also an important time node for young silkworms to hatch and mulberry leaves to grow, so more attention is paid to "offering sacrifices to the silkworm god". At this time, people will use rice flour or flour as raw materials to make wheat cakes and wheat cakes shaped like cocoons and enjoy them together, hoping for a bumper harvest of cocoons.

3. Bitter gourd

Bitter gourd is a good food in summer, with rich nutrition, mainly containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients. Immature tender fruits are used as vegetables, and ripe fruit pulp can be eaten raw, cold, fried meat and roasted fish, which is crisp and refreshing and has a unique flavor. Momordica charantia has the effects of stimulating appetite, helping digestion, removing heat and pathogenic factors, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Momordica charantia contains protein in addition to bitter quinine. It is found that protein can stimulate immune cells and has anti-cancer effect.

4. Lycium barbarum seedlings

Lycium barbarum seedlings are also called Lycium barbarum tips. Chinese medicine believes that the whole plant of Lycium barbarum seedlings is cool, sweet and bitter, and has the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing yin and improving eyesight. It is suitable for treating fever due to yin deficiency, thirst, hand and foot heart fever, liver and kidney deficiency, dry eyes, toothache due to deficiency of fire, etc.

5. Taraxacum mongolicum

Taraxacum mongolicum, also known as Laopoding, Herba Violae, etc., is a whole grass with roots of Taraxacum mongolicum belonging to compositae, which is widely distributed in China. Dandelion is a nutritious vegetable, which mainly contains protein, fat, carotene, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dandelion is sweet, bitter and cold, and enters the liver and stomach meridians, which has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, stopping diarrhea, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver, invigorating stomach and lowering blood pressure.