1, eat lotus root in the summer

Lotus root is a kind of health food with rich nutrition, which is suitable for both medicine and food. It also has the good meaning of getting rid of mud but not dyeing. Eating lotus root also has the function of cooling off summer heat, and there is a custom of eating lotus root in the south of the Yangtze River in the summer.

2, eat new rice in the summer

In Guangzhou, Fujian, Jiangxi and other areas, there is a folk custom of eating new rice in the summer, and the newly cut rice is made into rice, which is made into meals to worship the God of Grains and ancestors.

3, eat eel in the summer.

Monopterus albus is a very delicious food, and it is the most delicious in the summer. There is a custom of eating Monopterus albus in the coastal areas in the summer, and eating Monopterus albus in the summer has an excellent nourishing effect.

4, eat fruit in the summer

In hot summer, water is urgently needed. Therefore, some fruits with sufficient water are especially suitable for eating before and after the summer heat. For example, watermelons and tomatoes are particularly suitable choices. These two fruits can be peeled and seeded, mixed together and squeezed into juice for drinking. Watermelon is a particularly good fruit to relieve summer heat and replenish water. In Chinese medicine, there is a famous prescription called "White Tiger Decoction", and watermelon has the reputation of "Natural White Tiger Decoction" because it has the same effect. Tomatoes can produce body fluid to quench thirst, and have a good effect on heat diseases such as thirst, irritability and indigestion in summer.