Because mutton, ginseng and other foods are warm and tonic, eating them in summer can easily lead to excessive internal heat, and neither the eating habits nor the mutton itself is suitable for eating in summer.

The first is the custom of eating mutton, mostly in winter.

Foods like instant-boiled mutton are the favorite of many northerners. Every year in the dead of winter, people always go to the instant-boiled mutton shop in groups of three or five and have a happy meal. Originally, it was bitterly cold because of the weather, and it all disappeared because of a meal of instant-boiled mutton. Mutton is so effective that it can make people forget the cold instantly.

This is probably what Chinese medicine says about warming up, but I think what Chinese medicine says is too implicit, because mutton can't be eaten at all in summer.

Secondly, the smell of mutton is too pungent for people in summer.

Mutton has its own smell of mutton, which is barely acceptable in winter because of the cold weather. And in summer, it is simply torture. My father used to raise sheep. Every summer, he went to the sheepshed and came home, and our house was full of sheep smell. Not to mention making mutton, when we were young, we were most afraid of my father slaughtering sheep, especially in summer, when the whole yard smelled of sheep, which was simply unacceptable. Mutton is more greasy than beef and has more fat. In summer, people like to eat light food, and the meat is mostly chicken and beef. Mutton is naturally blocked because it is too greasy.

Thirdly, mutton is often cooked in skewers in summer, which can't be eaten much. Only in winter can it be made into soup and eaten in large quantities.

It's not that no one eats mutton in summer. Most of the mutton is still made into kebabs on barbecue stalls. The mutton kebabs, which were originally greasy, were roasted under the hands of the kebabs master, and they were particularly refreshing. Drinking a cold beer was simply a weapon to relieve summer heat.

Even so, there are still a few people who eat mutton in summer.