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When is the summer dog days? Why do toufu eat dumplings?

What's good for health preservation in summer? The temperature in summer is relatively high, and the air is still relatively humid. Under this high temperature and heat, many people are out of a state of eating without taste. So what's good for eating in summer? Why eat dumplings in the first day?

The three dog days appear in the summer heat and the beginning of autumn, which is the day with the highest temperature, humid and sultry in the year.

Sanfu is the hottest 30 or 40 days of the year in Central China. Sanfu is calculated according to the lunar calendar, which is between the late July and the early August of the lunar calendar. According to this year's solar terms, the dog days will last for 30 days, 10 days less than last year.

Toufu eating dumplings

It is a traditional custom for people to eat dumplings when they are in a dog's day, because people have a bad appetite and can't eat anything. Dumplings are just appetizers in the traditional Chinese custom.

People are suitable to eat noodles in the dog days. There is a saying in the North called "tou Fu dumpling Er Fu noodles, San Fu pancake stall eggs". It's about what people should eat in the dog days. The custom of eating noodles in Funi has been started since the Three Kingdoms period.

According to the Weishi spring and Autumn Annals, when he Yan 'laid down the sun eating soup cake, took the towel and wiped his sweat, his face was bright', people knew that he Yan's skin white was not covered with powder, but natural white. The "soup cake" here is hot soup noodles.

Why do you eat hot noodles in hot days? In the book of Jingchu years of age by Liang zongbi of the Southern Dynasty, he said: 'in June, there is an eclipse soup cake, which is named Bi evil. "May is a bad month, and June is also on the side of the bad month, so we should also" fight against evil ".

This is superstition. The new wheat is ground into flour to cook soup. After eating, the whole body perspires. The new grain is rich in nutrition. Perspiration can drive diseases. Eating soup cake in June is scientific.