The end of summer is one of the twenty-four solar terms in my country. During the end of summer, the weather has already entered autumn, and there are many delicacies during the end of summer. So what traditional delicacies should be eaten during the end of summer?

What are the customary foods to eat during the summer heat?

Next, let’s take a look at the food culture in this issue!

What traditional foods are eaten during the summer season? 1. Duck. The traditional eating custom of Nanjing people is to eat duck during the summer season.

Ducks, especially shelducks from the Jiangning Hushu area in Nanjing, are the most popular. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet in taste and cool in nature, and are suitable for fatness and leanness.

If they are not free, old Nanjing people will go to the delicatessen to buy half a duck and take it home; if they are free, they will stew "radish duck stew" or make "braised duck cubes" at home to give to their neighbors. This is what the saying goes,

Send ducks when the heat is over, and everyone will be free of illness.

2. Longan: The "summer heat" has arrived, and the "summer escape" is over.

Old Fuzhou people no longer drink herbal tea after the "summer heat", but eat more "qi-tonifying" and "blood-tonifying" things. Old Fuzhou people are accustomed to eating longan, which is peeled and soaked in porridge.

3. White meatballs In addition, another food that old Fuzhou eats during the summer heat is white meatballs.

White meatballs are actually glutinous rice balls. The preparation is very simple. Grind the glutinous rice flour into small pieces, boil the soup, and add some sugar. The taste is sweet, which can not only replenish carbohydrates, but also relieve the greasy mouth in summer.

4. Herbal tea: The custom of decoction of herbal tea in summer heat has been popular since the Tang Dynasty.

During the summer season, every household has the habit of making herbal tea. They first go to the pharmacy to prepare the prescription, and then make the tea at home to prepare it. This means that you have to eat something "bitter" in autumn, which is very useful in clearing away heat, removing internal heat, digesting food, and removing lung heat.

There are benefits.

5. Sour plum soup. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup on the streets of Wenzhou city, hence the proverb that “sour plum soup in the summer heat will reduce all the anger”.

Making sour plum soup is very simple. Just brew the dried plums with boiling water at night and add rock sugar.

After cooking and letting cool, put it in a wooden covered ice bucket to lower the temperature.

It tastes sour and sweet, sweet and slightly salty, and has a very good taste.