Summer heat treatment is the second solar term in the 24 solar terms, which gradually transits from summer to autumn. There are many folk food customs, such as eating ducks, longan porridge, eating white balls & hellip; have you heard of these customs? What food is better for your health?
What do you eat in summer?
1. Duck
The traditional diet of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in the summer. Ducks, especially the duck in Jiangning lake, Nanjing, are the most popular. It is reported that ducks there are sweet, cool, fat and thin. If there is no time, people in Nanjing will go to the deli to buy half a duck and go home. If there is time, people in Nanjing will stew the old duck with radish or make the braised duck pieces and give them to their neighbors. That's what the saying goes: send the duck to summer without illness.
Hangzhou people are used to dividing ducks into old duck, young duck and big duck. As far as nutrition is concerned, old duck has more lean meat and less water content. It's better in taste and nutrition. It's suitable for making soup to relieve summer heat, while meat duck is mostly used to make roast duck and sauce duck. Here's a tip for how to distinguish the old duck and the young duck: the old duck's hair is generally more uniform, the mouth and feet are relatively hard, the color is yellow and black, and the bones are relatively hard to touch. In addition, the same size, the old duck is heavier than the young one.
2, longan
When summer is over, summer vacation is over. Old Fuzhou no longer drinks herbal tea after 'summer heat treatment', but eats more 'Invigorating Qi' and 'invigorating blood'. Old Fuzhou is used to eating longan, which is made of porridge after shelling.
After heat treatment, it is necessary to enter autumn. There is a saying of "nourishing autumn" in traditional Chinese medicine, so it is reasonable to drink less herbal tea and eat more longan. At this time, we should pay attention to 'Invigorating Qi' and 'invigorating blood', and avoid cold food. At the same time, longan is warm, beneficial to the heart and spleen, Qi and blood, and has the effect of Nourishing Qi, which is beneficial to eat in this solar term. However, food therapy does not need to be too rigid, and there is no stipulation that this solar term must eat longan porridge, which many people can eat at ordinary times, which is beneficial.
3. White meatballs
In addition, another food that old Fuzhou ate in summer is white meatball. White balls are actually glutinous rice balls. It's very simple to knead the glutinous rice flour into a small one, boil the soup, add some sugar, taste clear and sweet, which can not only supplement carbohydrates, but also relieve the greasy taste in summer.
Glutinous rice has the effect of nourishing yin. In autumn, you can drink some glutinous rice porridge properly. Glutinous rice, sweet in taste and warm in nature, enters the spleen, kidney and lung meridians, can nourish the healthy qi of human body, and has the functions of Invigorating Qi, strengthening the spleen, promoting body fluid and stopping perspiration. After eating, you will get fever all over your body, which can keep you warm and nourish you. Eat some glutinous rice food in autumn, it will have a good tonic effect on the body.
4, herbal tea
Since Tang Dynasty, the custom of heat treatment and decoction of tea has prevailed. Every summer, every family has the habit of frying herbal tea. First, they go to the drugstore to prepare prescriptions, and then they fry tea at home to prepare drinks, which means that they have to eat some 'bitter' in autumn, which is quite beneficial in clearing heat, eliminating fire, eliminating food, eliminating lung heat, etc.
Before and after summer heat treatment, if you feel dry mouth and dry tongue, you can make tea with wheat winter or Dendrobium, which is dry and cold. It can help relieve heat and nourish yin. If you drink with pear and honey and boiled water with scallop, it can also help to dissipate phlegm, stop coughing, promote body fluid and nourish lung. It is also suitable for people with deficiency of Qi. However, we should drink less herbal tea in summer, because the heat is not serious at this time, and herbal tea is too bitter and cold, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, but also not beneficial to the lung and kidney.
5. Sour plum soup
In the 1960s and 1970s, there were tea stands selling sour plum soup on the streets of Wenzhou City. Therefore, there was a saying that "when summer comes, sour plum soup will burn down.". It's easy to make sour plum soup. You can make dried plum with boiling water at night, and then add ice sugar. After cooking and cooling, put it into a wooden covered ice bucket to reduce its temperature. It tastes sour and sweet, sweet and slightly salty, and tastes good.
The content of organic acids in Prunus mume is very rich, which can effectively inhibit lactic acid, reduce fatigue, and remove harmful substances that aging blood vessels. Therefore, drinking sour plum soup during the summer can relieve heat and refresh the mind, stimulate body fluid and quench thirst, and rejuvenate muscle and vascular tissue. In addition, when eating more meat, drinking sour plum soup can help the body to achieve acid-base balance.
After summer heat, the most important thing for health preservation is to raise the lungs. White food, such as tremella, yam, radish, lily, white peony and pear, is most likely to enter the lungs. It is recommended to eat more and less spicy food.