What food do you eat in summer?
1, drink ginger tea
Sunbathing ginger, drinking ginger tea, and eating ginger juice to adjust eggs are the food customs of Taizhou people on the summer day. Because ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, it has been passed down from generation to generation.
2, eat fairy grass
Many places in Guangdong will have the custom of "eating fairy grass" after the solar terms in summer. Xiancao is also called Mesona blume and Xiancao, which is better for people. It has a good effect of reducing summer heat and is known as "Xiancao". 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.
3. Eat litchi, mutton and rice grains
In Fujian and other areas, many people also like to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains during the summer heat. Now this has become a custom. Some people say that eating litchi in the summer heat will make you better. Litchi is a nutritious fruit, which is rich in substances and can be said to be a good tonic. Some people say that litchi has the same nutritional value as ginseng.
We should know that litchi is a specialty of Putian, and litchi is also divided into Song Jiaxiang, Zhuangyuanhong and Eighteen Niangs Red, which are excellent varieties. In Putian, especially before and after the great summer heat, litchi has become a ripe time for blooming flowers and fragrant flowers. According to the previous custom, when the summer is coming, litchi is often used as a gift between relatives and friends.
Rice grains are made by mixing rice with white rice koji, allowing it to ferment and ripen thoroughly into grains; 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.
4, drink old melon fresh lotus leaf soup
In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta area, almost every household cooks summer soup every summer day 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.
5. Eat noodles
When the summer comes, Linyi has the traditional custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) or eating noodles during the summer. 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.
6, fried grass tofu
Wenzhou summer custom is to fry grass tofu. 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.
7, eat ginger juice to adjust eggs
People in Jiaojiang, Taizhou also have the custom of eating ginger juice to adjust eggs in summer. Ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, and ginger juice can adjust eggs to "replenish people". Some elderly people like to eat chicken porridge, which is said to be able to replenish yang.
8. Eat chicken
Southerners have the habit of eating chicken in summer. There is a traditional folk tonic method, that is, eating broiler chickens in the summer. Broilers contain certain growth hormone, which is beneficial to children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level. When cooking chicken, add appropriate amount of ginger to adjust the temperature difference between inside and outside the human body in summer, so that the human body can adapt to the external environment and play a role in removing dampness and strengthening the body.
Health-keeping methods in summer heat
First, daily life: anti-glare, heatstroke prevention, and anti-yin and summer heat.
It is hot and humid in the summer, so we should pay attention to three defenses in our daily life: anti-glare, anti-heatstroke, and anti-shade.
1, heatstroke prevention and dampness prevention
Before and after the midsummer solar term, the ground temperature is the highest in a year. In many places, the temperature will be higher than 40 degrees Celsius, and there will be more rainfall. The rain will be transpiration by high temperature, and the atmosphere will be dense. The elderly and children, people with high blood pressure and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases need to pay special attention to their daily life. Try to avoid outdoor activities at noon and in the afternoon when the temperature is the highest, avoid too intense exercise in the morning and evening, and take a walk, do exercises and other soothing ways.
2. Anti-glare
With the change of atmospheric environment, the intensity of ultraviolet rays is getting higher and higher. In recent years, the number of patients with solar dermatitis has gradually increased. Sunscreen is not only a patent of Amy, but also a problem that the elderly and children and fair-skinned people need to pay attention to. Try to avoid direct sunlight when you go out. Even when you go out in smog or cloudy days, you can also apply sunscreen products to protect the sun. For sunburn, fresh aloe can be used to remove the skin, and the juice can be applied to the affected area. After ten minutes, it can be rinsed with clear water.
3, anti-yin and summer heat
Because of the hot and humid weather, people are prone to be greedy for cold and drink cold. If they are subjected to air conditioning or overeating for a long time, summer heat combined with wind-cold gas will easily lead to headache, sore throat, physical pain and fatigue, abdominal distension and diarrhea. It is not advisable to stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time and be properly ventilated. Especially after sweating, when the pores are wide open, it is even more necessary to avoid cold air going straight into the body.
Due to the long summer, the high temperature at night is easy to cause shallow sleep, and you need to make up your sleep briefly during the day. Sleeping in the afternoon or afternoon should not exceed 20 minutes. If it is too long, it should slow down the blood circulation and make you feel more tired after waking up.
Second, diet: the number of spleen-invigorating and dampness-eliminating is the first.
Excessive external dampness in summer season should lead to stagnation and poor operation of spleen and stomach qi, so strengthening spleen and eliminating dampness is the first priority. It is advisable to eat more grains, lotus seeds, yam, coix seed, poria cocos, white lentils and other things that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Milk and cool meat such as duck, pigeon and turtle are also suitable for this festival.
Clearing away summer heat, you can eat cold foods such as mung bean soup and bitter gourd, but people with spleen deficiency and dampness should not take them to avoid damaging spleen yang and aggravating internal dampness.
Seasonal fruits in summer, such as litchi, mango, watermelon, etc., are mostly high in sugar and calories, and should be taken in moderation to supplement the energy consumed by hot and humid weather itself, but it is not advisable to eat more and increase the burden on the spleen and stomach.
Many people like to barbecue cold beer in summer night, which is a common cause of spleen and stomach damage. People who have insufficient spleen and stomach should be especially cautious.
Sour plum soup is also a good product in summer, but dark plum is a sour and astringent product. Self-made sour plum soup should be supplemented with products such as dried tangerine peel to nourish the body fluid and prevent moisture from stopping gathering.
Third, nourishing the mind: avoid thinking and worrying.
In the summer, the spleen and stomach are in season, and the spleen hides meaning, and it is thinking about it. "Soul Pivot Ben Shen" said: "Therefore, those who serve things are called the heart, and the heart has the meaning of recalling them. What they mean is the ambition, and what they mean is the thought because of the will, the thought because of the long-term concern, and the wisdom because of the concern."
Thinking too much is easy to hurt temper, spleen deficiency can't hide feelings, and people are easy to recall past events and regret themselves, which leads to emotional depression or aggravation of original depression.
It is advisable to pay more attention to the present things during the summer heat. If there are many worries, it is advisable to dump them outside, or communicate with others, or write them on paper to avoid the worries and sorrows. You can listen to relaxing music more, and take a breath more than walking outdoors in the morning and evening when the temperature is suitable.
Fourth, acupoint health care: massage or moxibustion
You can choose the original points of the spleen and stomach meridians: Taichong and Taibai, which can nourish the original qi of soil circulation; Moxibustion: Zhangmen, Zhongwan, massage or moxibustion can be used.
Pay attention to anti-glare, heatstroke prevention and dampness prevention, and prevent yin and summer heat. In diet, spleen should be strengthened and dampness should be eliminated, and massage or moxibustion can also be used.
Health-keeping recipes for summer heat
1, stir-fried beef with black bean sauce and bitter gourd
Wash the required main materials and auxiliary materials. After washing the bitter gourd, remove the white pulp and cut it into large pieces. The washed beef is marinated with raw flour, soy sauce, a little salt, oil, shredded ginger and a little water for half an hour. Soak lobster sauce in clear water, then fish it up and drain it. Cut the garlic into minced garlic, then pour in the lobster sauce and stir together. Stir, pour into the pot, add a little oil, stir-fry until fragrant, and then fish up. After the pot is cleaned, stir-fry the beef for about 40 seconds, and then put the bitter gourd, garlic and lobster sauce into the pot and stir-fry. /kloc-Add seasoning after 0/0 minutes, and this fried beef with black bean juice and bitter gourd with heat-clearing and detoxicating effects can be taken out of the pot.
2, watermelon skin porridge
Peel off the hard skin of watermelon and cut it into dices. Wash the rice, put it in a casserole, add some water and watermelon rind, boil it over high heat, then turn to low heat to make porridge, and add sugar.
3. Coix seed, dried tangerine peel and carp soup
Wash Coicis Semen, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Fructus Benincasae, Carp, Lean Meat and Ginger respectively. Soak the medicinal materials, peel the wax gourd and cut into pieces. Wash the carp, fry until slightly yellow, and splash a little hot water. Boil it with lean meat and ginger, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls), boil it with strong fire and simmer it for about 1 hour.