Today is the 24 solar terms of Xiaoshu solar term. The arrival of this solar term indicates that the summer season officially begins. Xiaoshu will begin to fall into the ambush soon after. What's the best way to eat Xiaoshu solar term for health preservation? Let's have a look.
Six kinds of traditional food in summer
1. Cucumber + boiled egg
Some places in Shandong eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer. They eat eggs in the morning when they lie down, and don't eat any other food.
2. Eat three treasures
The arrival of Xiaoshu means that there will be three dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, the human body perspires a lot, consumes a lot, health care must pay attention to supplement physical strength, antipyretic heatstroke. Folk in this season has always eaten three treasures - eel, honey lotus root, mung bean sprout custom.
3. New food (spicy food)
In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new" in Xiaoshu, that is, tasting new rice after Xiaoshu. After the farmers milled the newly cut rice into rice, they prepared rice to offer sacrifices to the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone ate and tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new" is "eating spicy". It is the first spicy day after Xiaoshu Festival. The city generally buys a small amount of new rice and old rice to cook together, plus newly listed vegetables and so on.
4. Eat dumplings
There is a popular saying in the dog days that "the first one is for radish, the second for vegetables, and the third for buckwheat", "the first one is for dumplings, the second one is for noodles, and the third one is for pancakes and eggs". It's a traditional custom for people to eat dumplings in front of their heads. People in front of the sun have poor appetite and are often thinner than those in the ordinary days. It's called bitter summer, and dumplings are just appetizers in the traditional custom.
5, eat noodles
At least the Three Kingdoms period has already begun. "Wei spring and Autumn Period": "Fu solar eclipse soup cake, take a towel to wipe sweat, the face is bright". The soup cake here is hot soup noodles. In the book of Jingchu's age, it says: 'in June, I lay down the sun eating soup cake, which is named PI evil. "May is a bad month, and June is also on the side of the bad month, so we should also" fight against evil ".
You can also eat water and fried noodles in the dog days. The so-called fried noodle is to fry the flour in a pot, and then mix it with water and sugar. This kind of eating method was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but at that time, it was to fry the cooked wheat first, and then grind the pasta. Su Gong, a medical expert in Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can relieve the heat, stop the discharge and make the large intestine real.
6. Eat mutton
Xuzhou people go to sleep and eat mutton, which is called "eat sheep". This custom can be traced back to the period of Yao and shun. There is a saying in the folk that there is a bowl of soup for sleeping sheep in Pengcheng, and there is no need for a doctor to prescribe a prescription. Xuzhou people like to eat Fu sheep better than the local folk song 'pick up the girl on June 6, new wheat cake mutton soup'.