"The great heat and the third autumn are approaching, and the forest bells and nine summers are moving." From then on, the weather will slowly transition to autumn.

The Great Heat is around mid-day, and in many areas of our country, high temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius often occur. In this sweltering season, heatstroke prevention and cooling cannot be ignored.

It is said that "no disease in summer means three points of deficiency". In this hot weather, even if you are not sick, you will appear "deficiency", which means you consume more energy. Therefore, you should eat more light and replenishing foods during the hot weather.

Food that promotes body fluids, clears away heat and relieves heat without losing nutrition.

So, what is good to eat during the Great Summer Festival?

Fuyang soup is a bowl of Fuyang soup, and no doctor is required to prescribe it.

In the hot season, drink a bowl of mutton soup to warm yourself up, detoxify and relieve sweat.

Boiling hot pure white soup, sprinkled with green onion, rich aroma, fat but not greasy, fresh but not sour.

Pair it with a bite of freshly baked sesame seed cakes, which are so crispy and fragrant, it’s simply amazing.

"Eat jelly grass during the hot weather in June, and you will live like a god and never grow old."

During the summer season, there is a custom of eating fairy grass in many areas such as Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangxi.

Grass jelly, also known as jelly grass and jelly grass, is a medicinal and edible herb. Because of its miraculous relieving effect, it is known as "jelly grass".

Dry the stems and leaves of grass jelly, boil it in water, add starch, and let it cool to form a jelly.

In the north, noodles are eaten with "Toufu dumplings and Erfu noodles". Although noodles can be eaten every day, on Erfu day, many people line up early in the time-honored Huatian Yanji restaurant to eat cold noodles. Cold noodles are famous for their freshness and flavor.

Sour, spicy, sweet, and salty, the five flavors are balanced. With the addition of chewy noodles, refreshing noodle soup, and kimchi, beef, and eggs, you can have a bowl of it during the second lunar month, which is refreshing and comfortable.

For tea, more than 10 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, licorice, and prunella vulgaris are boiled and cooled to make tea. Drinking it in summer has the effect of cooling and dispelling heat.

In ancient times, it was provided free of charge to the people, but now some pharmacies provide it.

Rice grains, rice grains, glutinous rice grains, rice wine, are made from glutinous rice as raw material, steamed and naturally fermented with distiller's yeast.

It tastes soft and fragrant, and is both delicious and healthy.

In areas such as Fujian, there is a custom of eating rice glutinous rice during the Great Heat. Boiling rice glutinous rice with brown sugar and poached eggs is a simple and heat-repelling delicacy. It is said that eating it on this day can "replenish vitality".

There is also a folk saying that "Old rice wine and Zhuanzi fire, besides the emperor, it is me".

Sun-bathing ginger, drinking ginger tea, and eating ginger juice mixed with eggs are the food customs of Taizhou people during the Great Heat. Because ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, it has been passed down from generation to generation.

It is very popular for people in Taiwan to eat jelly grass and pineapples on the Great Heat Day. Legend has it that pineapples are the most delicious at this time. The jelly grass is also a famous local snack and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Laoya soup is a popular food recipe in the north and south - Laoya is a tonic during the great summer heat. The old duck is slowly simmered and then added with lotus root, winter melon, gorgon fruit and coix seed to make a soup to relieve the heat and nourish.

Laoya is a good tonic in summer. It is not only rich in nutrients, but also because it lives in water all year round, it is cooler in nature. It has the effects of nourishing the yang of the five internal organs, clearing away the heat caused by fatigue, nourishing blood and water, nourishing the stomach and promoting body fluids.