Activities of solar terms in summer.
1, eat summer sheep
"Eating sheep in summer" is a traditional custom in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu during the summer season. After the summer, just after the third summer and before the autumn harvest, the farmers who have been busy for half a year will eat summer sheep in groups of three or five families and seven or eight families. At this time, the little goat who grew up drinking mountain spring water has eaten grass for several months, which is already tender and fragrant.
2. Eat new things
There are many folk places where there is the custom of "eating new things" in the summer. Farmers will cook rice with new rice to worship the gods and ancestors of grain and pray for a bumper harvest of grain after autumn. Then people happily taste new wine and so on. In some places, the newly harvested wheat is fried, then ground into flour and eaten with water and sugar. This way of eating, as early as the Han Dynasty, was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can "relieve annoyance, relieve diarrhea and strengthen the large intestine".
3. fast
The fasting day of Miao nationality in western Hunan is from the day before the summer heat to the day after the summer heat every year. During this period, chickens, ducks, fish, turtles, crabs and other things were fasted.
4, eat noodles
As the saying goes, "the heat is in the dog days", and it will enter the dog days after the slight summer heat. V, which means hiding, so people should go out less to escape the heat. In diet, people will eat cool and refreshing food to spend the hot summer days.
5. Fishing
Cool in midsummer, not suitable for strenuous exercise, but suitable for activities that are enjoyable and nourishing. Fishing in Liutang. It is the most pleasant leisure interest to wear a skirt when the wind blows.
6. fighting thrush
Thrushcross, with picturesque eyebrows, is euphemistic and varied, just like Kuzu. Men are good at singing and fighting, and people like to raise more. It's fun to put thrush in a high cage, hang it under the porch and feed it carefully. Thrush has a melodious voice, which is very beautiful and can relieve boredom and add interest.
7, small summer lick cattle
In Linyi, Shandong Province, people have the custom of improving the diet of cattle every summer. Furi cooked wheat kernel soup for cows. It is said that cows are strong and can work without sweating. "Spring bullwhip, lick Niu Han (bull), wheat kernel soup, lick beef rice, lick beef without sweating, and cook it again in June".
Matters needing attention in light summer diet
1, should be light, eat fruits and vegetables.
The rainy and high temperature in the summer makes the digestive tract diseases, which are high incidence in summer, more frequent.
Therefore, this season's diet, we must pay attention to food hygiene, and diet should be moderate, not gluttony, excessive; And the diet should be light and nutritious.
2, watermelon is good, eat carefully.
When the weather is unbearable, if you have more outdoor activities, you will sometimes feel uncomfortable. Just as people are exposed to the sun, they often sweat and pant, which is the expression of "summer evil hurting body fluid and consuming gas". There are many foods for relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production, while watermelon with sweet and cold taste has better effect of clearing heat and promoting fluid production. If you are annoyed by the summer heat and thirsty, you can choose to eat it. However, due to the cold nature of watermelon, if people with deficiency and cold constitution take too much food, it will easily lead to diarrhea, abdominal fullness and other gastrointestinal discomfort diseases, so we should not be careless.
3. Drink enough water and replenish water.
In the hot summer, no matter the amount of exercise, you should replenish water in time; Never wait for thirst to drink water, because thirst means that your body is short of water.
4, clear and cool, strengthen the spleen and stomach
When the humidity is high, we can consider choosing some ingredients and medicinal materials with the effect of clearing away heat and dampness. There is a prescription called "Qingbuliang" in the workshop. The materials are generally mung beans, yam, lotus seeds, Gordon Euryale seeds, coix seed, etc., which have the effect of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and strengthening the spleen. You can add a proper amount of lean meat for soup. However, it should be noted that the ready-made "Qingbuliang" soup packets contain different materials, so it is advisable to consult Chinese medicine practitioners first.
5, drink more soup to clear away heat and relieve summer heat
When people sweat more and lose a lot of body fluids during the summer solar term, drinking more soup can not only replenish water in time, but also help digestion and absorption. It is best to drink mung bean soup, which is cool and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Mung beans with some food or medicine can be made into delicious soup for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, such as mung bean mint soup, mung bean pumpkin soup, mung bean coix seed soup and mung bean honeysuckle soup. In addition, using watermelon peel and peanut100g each, malt and coix seed 50g each, and boiling into soup for drinking, all have a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
6, eat more porridge, nourish yin and strengthen the spleen and stomach
Eating more porridge is a traditional health care method in China, which is of great benefit to the body. The porridge used for heatstroke prevention includes mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, fresh lotus root porridge and raw reed root porridge. You can also use cassia seed, white chrysanthemum each15g, japonica rice 60g, and rock sugar to cook porridge as a cool drink in the summer. In addition, white sweet potatoes and mustard greens are added to japonica rice to cook porridge, which has the effect of relieving summer heat and sweating.
Xiaoshu solar terms health fruit
1 watermelon
The weather is hot during the summer, and watermelon is a very recommended summer fruit. It can not only clear away heat and detoxify, relieve annoyance and quench thirst, but also induce diuresis and help digestion, so people must eat some watermelons.
2. Mango
The farmer's proverb says, "Eat mango in a light summer", and mango is the most mature and delicious season around the light summer. Because mango contains a lot of vitamins, eating mango regularly can moisturize the skin. Eating mango has the effect of clearing the stomach and intestines, and has a certain antiemetic effect on motion sickness and seasickness.
3. Peaches
It has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, and relieving asthma, and is mainly used for treating deficiency of stomach yin, thirst in mouth, intestinal dryness and heat, and constipation. In addition, fresh peaches nourish people mainly because of their mild taste and high nutritional value. Peach contains a variety of vitamins, fruit acids and inorganic salts such as calcium and phosphorus, and its iron content is 4-6 times that of apples and pears.
4. Myrica rubra
Myrica rubra has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, invigorating spleen and appetizing. Eating more does not harm the spleen and stomach, but also has the effect of detoxifying and dispelling cold. The fruit acid contained in Myrica rubra can not only stimulate appetite, promote salivation, relieve summer heat, but also prevent sugar in the body from transforming into fat, which is helpful to lose weight.
5. Begonia fruit
Begonia contains sugar, multivitamins and organic acids, which can help to supplement the intracellular fluid of human body, thus having the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst; It can also help the gastrointestinal tract to digest food and drink, so it can be used to treat dyspepsia, food retention and abdominal distension.