1, food new (food Xin)
The past folk summer "food new" custom, that is, after the summer taste new rice, farmers will be newly cut rice milled into rice, do a good job of rice for the gods of the grains and ancestors, and then everyone ate to taste the new wine, etc. It is said that "eat new" custom, that is, after the summer taste new wine. It is said that "eating new" is "eating Xin", the first Xin day after the summer festival. Cities usually buy a small amount of new rice to cook with the old rice, along with newly released vegetables.
2, eel
As the saying goes, "summer eel race ginseng", almost all of the classic dishes around the eel as a raw material. Eel grows in the mud cave in the waterfront, the most nourishing, the most flavorful belongs to the summer eel before and after a month of summer. In addition, this period is often chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases of the remission period, according to the winter disease summer treatment, this time with eel tonic more can play a tonic in the qi, tonic liver and spleen, in addition to rheumatism, the role of the strong bones.
3, mung bean sprouts
Hot summer, cooking a mung bean sprouts dishes can clear heat and detoxification, diuretic dehumidification. At the same time, mung bean sprouts are very low calorie, and water and fiber content is high, can promote intestinal peristalsis, with the role of laxative, is recognized as a summer slimming good, but also constipated patients with healthy vegetables, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, rectal cancer patients also have good therapeutic value.
Health Tips: Although the mung bean sprouts of high food value, but also eat up quite pay attention to. Mung bean skin do not casually remove, to know, this layer of unassuming mung bean skin has more than mung beans have strong heat detoxification effect. In addition, mung bean sprouts sex cold, eat more easily damaged stomach gas, therefore, chronic enteritis, spleen and stomach cold, chronic gastritis is not advisable to eat more. But cooking with a little ginger or pepper, or with some warm cilantro, leeks, it can be very good to neutralize the cold out of it.
4, lotus root
Many friends have had such an experience: every summer, a little inattention, will be nosebleeds, go to the hospital to find out what the problem, the doctor just urged: eat more lotus root can be. It really did not take long, the problem naturally disappeared. In fact, there is a certain cause and effect relationship here, in the dry air, hydration and insufficient time, often eat lotus root can cool blood, nourishing Yin, heat, to solve the nosebleed this trouble can be said to be a piece of cake. For the elderly, summer lotus root is a good ingredient to nourish the spleen and stomach. In addition, lotus root is also hypertension, liver disease, lack of appetite, iron deficiency anemia, malnutrition health food.
5, cucumber + hard-boiled eggs
Shandong, some places to eat raw cucumber and hard-boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, into the ambush of the morning to eat eggs, do not eat other food.
6, eat dumplings
Volts of folk proverbs, "the first two volts of turnips and vegetables, three volts can grow buckwheat", "the first volts of dumplings, two volts of noodles, three volts of pancakes and eggs. Dumplings is a traditional custom, people's appetite on the day of the ambush, often thinner than normal, commonly referred to as the bitter summer, and dumplings in the traditional custom is the appetizing food to relieve cravings.
7, eat noodles
Volts eat noodles custom at least the Three Kingdoms period has begun. Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals: "Vuji eat soup cake, take a towel to wipe sweat, face bright", here the soup cake is hot soup noodles. Jing Chu chronicle" said: "June, the day of the soup cake, called the evil." May is the evil month, June also dip the edge of the evil month, it should also be "open evil". The day can also eat water noodles, fried noodles. The so-called fried noodles is a pot of flour fried dry and fried, and then mixed with water and sugar to eat, this eating method has been the Han Dynasty Tang and Song Dynasty, more common, but then it is the first fried grains of wheat, and then grind the noodles to eat. Tang Dynasty physician Su Gong said, fried noodles can solve the annoying heat, stop leakage, solid colon.
8, eat mutton
State people eat mutton into the ambush, known as "eat sheep", this custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period, in the folk "Pengcheng ambrosia a bowl of soup, without a doctor to prescribe medicines," the saying. Xuzhou people eat sheep favorite than the local folk song "June 6 to pick up the girl, the new wheat cake mutton soup.