1. Eat Xiancao

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating Xiancao" in the summer. Xiancao, also known as Mesona blume and Xiancao, is an important medicinal and edible plant resource.

It is known as "Xiancao" because of its magical summer-heat relieving effect. After drying its stems and leaves, it can be made into grass jelly, which is called bean jelly in Guangdong area and is a kind of summer dessert.

2. Eat Litchi, Mutton and Rice Grains

People in Putian, Fujian like to eat Litchi, Mutton and Rice Grains in summer, and some people say that eating Litchi in summer has the same nutritional value as ginseng.

Litchi is a special product of Putian, among which Song Jiaxiang, Zhuangyuanhong and Eighteen Niang Hong are excellent varieties, which are well-known in ancient and modern times. In Putian, before and after the summer heat, litchi is ripe for the trees to be full of flowers and ten miles of fragrance. According to the custom, litchi is often used as a gift between relatives and friends when the summer is coming.

Rice grains are made by mixing rice with white rice koji, allowing it to ferment and ripen thoroughly. 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.

3. Drink old wax gourd and fresh lotus leaf soup

In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta area, almost every household cooks summer soup on the day of summer heat 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.

4. Eat noodles

When the summer comes, there is a traditional custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) or eating noodles in Linyi urban and rural areas. On this day, every married daughter and married son will go back to their parents' home, kill a sheep and cook a pot of cold noodles. The whole family will drink mutton soup and eat noodles with joy and have a hot summer.

5. Fried grass tofu

It is the custom in Wenzhou to fry grass tofu during the summer heat. 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. Eating ginger juice to adjust eggs

People in Jiaojiang, Taizhou also have the custom of eating ginger juice to adjust eggs in the summer. Ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, and ginger juice can adjust eggs to "replenish people", and some elderly people like to eat chicken porridge, which is said to replenish yang.