1, eat three treasures

"Small summer heat, steaming and cooking", the arrival of small summer heat means that it is about to enter the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, the human body sweats a lot and consumes a lot. Health care must pay attention to supplementing physical strength, relieving fever and preventing heatstroke. At this time of year, people have the custom of eating three treasures-Monopterus albus, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts.

2, eating new (spicy)

In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new things" in the summer heat, that is, after the summer heat, farmers tasted new rice, and after grinding the newly cut rice into rice, they prepared meals for worshipping the gods of the five grains and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new" means "eating spicy", which is a spicy day after the light summer holiday. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice to cook with old rice, plus newly listed vegetables.

3, cucumber+boiled eggs

In some places in Shandong, raw cucumbers and boiled eggs are eaten to cure the bitter summer, and eggs are eaten in the morning and no other food is eaten.

4. Eat jiaozi

There are folk proverbs in Futian, such as "radish can grow buckwheat when it's on its head, but buckwheat can grow when it's on its feet", and "jiaozi can grow buckwheat when it's on its head, and pancakes spread eggs when it's on its feet". It is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi on one's head. People in Furi lose appetite and tend to be thinner than usual, which is called bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is the food to stimulate appetite.

5. Eat noodles

The custom of eating noodles in Furi began at least during the Three Kingdoms period. "Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals": "Fu Ri Shang Bing, take a towel to wipe your sweat, you look Jiao Ran", and the soup cake here is hot soup noodles. "The Chronicle of Jingchu's Years Old" said: "The soup cake is called evil when it is eclipsed in June." May is an evil month, and June also touches the edge of the evil month, so it should also be "evil". You can also eat water and fried noodles in the dog days. The so-called fried noodles are the dry fried flour in a pan, and then mixed with water and sugar to eat. This kind of eating method has been more common in the Han Dynasty since the Tang and Song Dynasties, but at that time, the wheat was fried first, and then the pasta was ground. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can relieve heat, stop diarrhea and strengthen the large intestine.

6. Eat mutton

People in Xuzhou eat mutton in ambush, which is called "eating mutton in ambush". This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period, and there is a saying among the people that "Pengcheng sleeps sheep in a bowl of soup, and there is no need for a doctor to prescribe it". Xuzhou people's love for eating Fu Yang is nothing more than the local folk song "Pick up the girl on June 6th, make new wheat cake mutton soup".