Toufu is the first day of three dog days in traditional Chinese calendar law. Strictly speaking, the arrival of toufu is the beginning of summer weather. Toufu dumplings two Fu noodles, three Fu days to eat pasta is appetizer, so that food better digestion. So it's a good day to eat noodles.
Dumplings
In the agricultural society of the past, when the wheat harvest was less than a month. Every family is full of grain. People take advantage of this opportunity to make a tooth offering and eat white noodles. In the north, they must eat dumplings in the dog days. 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. When cooking dumplings, the two common problems of adhesion and broken skin make people headache. How can we cook them to keep their shape intact? In fact, in the process of cooking dumplings, water boils four times, and then they are cooked. When the water boils for the first time, add a little cold water, and then add cold water after the water boils. In total, order 3 backwater, boil 4 times, the dumplings will be cooked, neither adhesion, nor easy to break the skin.
Wonton
In some parts of the south, such as Shanghai, toufu wants to eat wonton. In fact, for southerners, wonton and dumplings are almost a kind of food. Shanghainese have a saying of "first serve wonton and second serve tea".
Compared with dumplings, wonton has a thin skin and a sense of transparency after cooking. In addition, it takes a short time to cook wonton. In the process of cooking dumplings, you need to add cold water for many times to ensure that they are well cooked. In addition, dumplings are heavily dipped and wontons are heavily stocked, especially in Guangdong. Chicken soup and meat bone soup are the first choice for the soup bottom. We often eat wonton with noodles, called wonton noodles.
Ham
Hangzhou People 'head Fu ham two Fu chicken'. According to traditional Chinese medicine, ham has the functions of invigorating the spleen and appetizing the stomach, promoting the body fluid and benefiting the blood. Ham can be eaten all year round, but it's best in summer. In summer, people often have poor appetite and nutrition. Ham is rich in nutrition and not greasy. It can increase appetite. It can cook soup with winter melon. It has both nutrition and heatstroke prevention.
Ham soup also has a tonic effect, but also can add some tomatoes and other foods rich in vitamin C, to eliminate the concern of pickled food carcinogenesis. Ham also has the effect of accelerating wound healing. Now it is also used as an auxiliary food after surgery.
Noodles in soup
On the first day of ambush, there was a custom of "two ambush noodles for toufu dumplings and three ambush pancakes for eggs" in the north. In the south, such as Shanghai, wonton was eaten, while in Guangzhou, noodle soup was eaten. Noodles are rich in carbohydrates, which can provide enough energy, and absorb a lot of water in the process of cooking. After 100 grams of noodles are cooked, it will become about 400 grams, so it can produce a strong sense of fullness.
In addition, noodles can stimulate people's thinking activities. People's brain and nervous system need a kind of food with carbohydrate accounting for 50%. Noodles are the food that people's brain needs. Durum contains B vitamins, which stimulate brain cells.
chicken
In Nanchang, the first volt eats chicken and the second volt duck. Hunan and Jiangxi are close neighbors. The first volt also eats chicken. Comparatively speaking, Jiangxi and Hunan people eat chicken in the dog days is quite scientific.
As the proverb goes: 'the ups and downs of a chicken, a good year of health. 'people's physical energy consumption is more in the dog days, so they should be properly supplemented with nutrition. When stewing chicken, ginger can be added appropriately. Ginger temperature can adjust the temperature difference between inside and outside of the human body in summer, making the human body adapt to the external environment and play the role of dehumidification and strengthening. In this way, it can spread cold in the body and prevent cold disease in autumn.
mutton
"Pengcheng Fu sheep a bowl of soup, do not prescribe prescriptions.". As we all know, mutton is a sweaty food, which is the best food in winter. However, people in Xuzhou are up to the challenge. They eat mutton with chili oil on the hottest dog day of the year. Fuyang Festival is a traditional festival in Xuzhou. In every year's season of ambush, that is, the first day of ambush, in the following month, Xuzhou people gathered in various hotels, restaurants, mutton restaurants, barbecue stands, eat mutton, drink mutton soup, so it is called eating ambush.