1, eat Xiancao

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass" in the summer. Xiancao, also known as Mesona blume and Xiancao, is an important medicinal and edible plant resource.

Because of its magical summer-heat effect, it 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.

2. Eat litchi, mutton and rice grains.

People in Putian, Fujian like to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains in the summer, and some people say that eating litchi in the summer is as high in nutritional value as ginseng.

Litchi is a specialty of Putian, among which Song Jiaxiang, Zhuangyuanhong and Eighteen Niang Hong are excellent varieties, which are well-known in ancient and modern times. In Putian, before and after the summer heat, litchi is ripe for the trees to be full of flowers and ten miles of fragrance. According to the custom, litchi is often used as a gift between relatives and friends when the summer is coming.

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.

3. Drink old melon and 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.

4. 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.

5, 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.

6, 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.

7. 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.

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.

9. Drink summer sheep

In southern Shandong, there is a custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) on the day of the great summer. In Zaozhuang City, many citizens go to the local mutton soup kitchen to "drink summer sheep" on the hot summer day. The habit of eating fu sheep in Zaozhuang is related to local farming and climate. Nutritionists have conducted in-depth research on this and believe that mutton has the highest nutritional level in the dog days. On the dog days, heat accumulates in the human body. At this time, drinking mutton soup and drinking Chili oil, vinegar and garlic into the stomach will inevitably lead to sweating all over. This sweat can take away the heat accumulated in the five internal organs and expel toxins from the body, which is very beneficial to health.

10, eat pineapple

Taiwan Province: Most of the waters around Taiwan Province are covered with warm-water fish, with squid in the northeast, and yellow-finned snapper in the offshore of Keelung. Taiwan Province folk proverb: Eat pineapple in summer, saying that pineapple is the best in this season. In addition, June 15th is the "Half-year Festival". Because June 15th of the lunar calendar is half of the whole year, the whole family will eat the "Half-year Round" together after worshipping the gods on this day. The Half-year Round is made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and rubbing it with red noodles, and most of them will be cooked into sweets to taste, which symbolizes reunion and sweetness.

1 1, drink tea

After the summer heat falls, one of people's habits to spend the summer is to drink tea, especially in Jiangxi and other places. People have the custom of drinking tea in the summer, and many people will also make dried ebony in the backyard into ebony tea.

12, old duck soup

The recipe widely circulated in the north and south is-the tonic for the old duck in the summer. After the old duck is slowly stewed, lotus root, wax gourd, Gordon Euryale seed and Coix seed are added to make soup to relieve the heat and nourish it. Old duck is a good tonic in summer, which is not only rich in nutrition, but also cold in nature because it lives in water all the year round, and has the effects of nourishing the yang of the five internal organs, clearing away the heat of fatigue, nourishing blood and promoting water circulation, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production.