Introduction: Everyone who knows something about the folk customs of the Great Summer Festival knows that the folk characteristics of the solar terms of the Great Summer Festival are mainly reflected in the aspect of eating. Of course, the premise is based on the climate characteristics of summer days, but are the eating customs the same in the northern and southern parts of the country? Let's introduce what to eat in the southern summer in 2121 and see what food to eat in the southern summer.

In 2121, the traditional foods eaten in the Southern Summer include: Xiancao, ginger tea, tea, fried grass tofu, old wax gourd fresh lotus leaf soup, cold vegetarian dishes, lotus seed soup, cold vegetarian dishes, pineapple, old duck soup, young chicken, litchi, mutton and rice grains.

Eat Xiancao

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating Xiancao" 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.

Drinking ginger tea

Sunbathing ginger, drinking ginger tea and eating ginger juice to adjust eggs are the food customs of Taizhou people in the summer, because ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, so it has been passed down from generation to generation. People in Taiwan Province are very popular to eat Xiancao and pineapple on the summer day. It is said that the pineapple is the most delicious at this time, and Xiancao is also a famous local snack, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

eat litchi, mutton and rice grains

People in Putian, Fujian have the custom of eating litchi, mutton and rice grains during the summer heat, which is called "over the summer heat". Some people say that eating litchi in summer is as high in nutritional value as eating ginseng. 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.

Fried grass tofu

It is the custom in Wenzhou to fry grass tofu during the summer heat. 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.

Drink old wax gourd and fresh lotus leaf soup

In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta area, almost every household cooks summer soup on the hot 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.

Chickens

Southerners have the habit of eating chickens in summer. A traditional folk tonic method is to eat broiler chickens in summer. Broilers contain a certain amount of growth hormone, which is beneficial to children in growth and development and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone levels. When it is made, a proper amount of ginger is added to adjust the temperature difference between the inside and outside of 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.

Tips on diet in summer

1. Eating more thin food is an important way to maintain health in summer, such as drinking porridge at breakfast and dinner and soup at lunch. Adding some lotus leaves to porridge has the functions of dispelling summer heat, nourishing stomach and clearing intestines, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Adding some mung beans to porridge or cooking soup with mung beans alone has the functions of relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and diuresis.

2. Pay attention to eating more fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, green peppers, wax gourd, bayberry, melon and plums; Supplement water and inorganic salts, especially potassium, such as beans and their products, mushrooms, etc. Eat more foods with heat-clearing and dampness-promoting effects, such as watermelon, bitter gourd, peach, dark plum, strawberry, cucumber, etc. Protein should be supplemented appropriately, such as fish, lean meat and eggs.