What traditional food is good to eat during the Great Heat season in 2019? Is it really true that we can’t eat ice during the dog days?

What traditional food is good to eat during the Great Heat season in 2019? Is it really true that we can’t eat ice during the dog days?
Introduction: Great Heat is one of the 24 solar terms, and there are many food customs associated with it. So what traditional food is good to eat during the Great Heat season in 2019? Is it really true that we can’t eat ice during the dog days? Want to know more about the dates and auspicious and unlucky days in the sixth lunar month of 2019? Mr. Shui Mo's website introduces you to every day of the sixth lunar month of 2019.

What traditional food is good to eat during the Great Heat season in 2019?

Traditional food during the Great Heat: eating half a mooncake
The period around the Great Heat is the 15th day of the sixth lunar month, which is halfway through the year. It is also called the "Half-Year Festival" in Taiwan.
After worshiping the gods on this day, the whole family will eat "half-year dumplings" together. Half-year dumplings are made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and then mixing it with red flour. Most of them are cooked into sweets to eat, and their symbolic meaning is reunion and sweetness.
Traditional food of Dashu: drinking Shuyang
On the day of Great Heat, there is a custom in southern Shandong Province of "drinking mutton soup".
In Zaozhuang City, many citizens go to the local mutton soup restaurant to "drink summer mutton" on the day of the Great Heat.
From the perspective of health preservation, mutton is most nutritious when eaten during the dog days of summer. During the hot dog days, people are prone to heat accumulation in their bodies. Drinking mutton soup with chili oil, vinegar and garlic will make the body sweat profusely, and the accumulated heat in the five internal organs and toxins in the body will be discharged from the body with sweat, which is good for the body.
Traditional food for Dashu: old duck soup
"The Lesser Heat follows the Greater Heat, it's so hot that there's nowhere to hide." "Great Heat" among the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar is the hottest time of the year.
Nanjing people like to eat duck. On the day of Dashu, it is popular to eat duck soup in old Nanjing, because during Dashu, the weather is hot, ducks live in water, and duck meat is cool in nature.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that duck meat has the effects of nourishing the yang of the five internal organs, clearing away heat from fatigue, replenishing blood and promoting water circulation, nourishing the stomach and producing body fluid. There is a folk saying that "old duck in the Great Heat is better than tonic medicine." Traditional food during the Great Heat season: eating lychees
During the Great Heat, according to Putian customs, every household eats lychees, which is called "passing the Great Heat".
The Great Heat solar term is in the month shortly after the plum rain season. Although the weather is hot at this time, heat is dominated by yin, and the human body is easily invaded by heat, dampness, and evil, and may even become ill. Eating litchi can enhance the body's ability to resist disease and drive away heat and dampness.
At the same time, lychees contain a large amount of glucose and various vitamins, and are rich in nutritional value. Eating fresh lychees can nourish the body.
Traditional food for Dashu: ginger egg
There is a folk proverb: Eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer. In Zhejiang Province, there is a custom of eating eggs with ginger juice during the Great Heat season. Ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, and ginger juice and eggs can "replenish the body". Some elderly people also like to eat chicken porridge, saying that it can replenish yang.
In Shanxi and Henan, people will slice ginger or squeeze the juice and mix it with brown sugar during the Great Heat, put it in a container, cover it with gauze, and dry it in the sun.
If eaten after being fully blended, it has miraculous effects on chronic cold stomach, cold and cough, and has the effect of warming and health care.
Traditional food during the Great Heat season: eating pineapples
During the Great Heat period, there is a custom in Taiwan of eating pineapples. Ordinary people believe that pineapples at this time of year are the most delicious.
From the perspective of health preservation, pineapple is rich in nutrients, has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and promoting urination. It is the best fruit for relieving summer heat.
In addition, the pronunciation of pineapple in Minnan dialect is the same as "wanglai", so it is also used as a symbol to pray for peace, good luck and prosperous business.

Is it really true that we can’t eat ice during the dog days of summer?

It’s true, most people should eat less cold food during the dog days of summer. But you can eat a small amount and control the degree.
Although drinking cold drinks and eating ice cream during the dog days of summer can help relieve heat and increase appetite, for most people, there is no complete taboo on cold drinks.
Eating some cold drinks in moderation will not cause great harm to the body. However, the dog days are when the yang energy in nature and the human body is at its peak.
When the body's Yang energy is at its strongest, simply using cold foods (ice drinks, air conditioning) to resist it will inevitably deplete the body's Yang energy and damage the body's spleen and stomach functions.

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