What traditional food is good to eat during the Great Heat? What’s the weather like during the Great Heat?
The Great Heat season is the hottest time of the year. To maintain health during this time, we need to eat more foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat. So what traditional foods are good to eat during the Great Heat? The sixth lunar month of 2018 also ushered in summer. Follow the Fortune Teller website and we will accompany you through a hot summer.What traditional food is good to eat during the Great Heat?1. Eating grass jelly In many places in Guangdong, there is a custom of "eating grass jelly" during the Great Heat season. Grass jelly, also known as jelly grass and fairy grass, is an herbaceous plant of the genus Grass jelly in the family Lamiaceae and is an important plant resource for both medicinal and edible purposes. Because of its magical effect of relieving heat, it is known as "immortal grass". After drying its stems and leaves, they can be made into grass jelly, which is called liangfen in Guangdong and is a summer dessert.2. Eat cold vegetarian dishes. Southerners like to eat various cold vegetarian dishes around the Great Heat solar term. Most of them are simple and economical dishes to make, such as cold bean sprouts with fried tofu and cold beans. They all have a crisp and cool taste that can whet people's appetite. There is also the cold-mixed shredded dish made with kelp, green pepper, red pepper, soy sauce, vinegar, minced ginger, etc., which is a great dish to go with wine in summer. Fish, winter bamboo shoots and roast duck can also be seen in the cold-mixed shredded dish at the banquet. 3. Eat lychees, mutton and rice glutinous rice. People in Putian, Fujian have the custom of eating lychees, mutton and rice glutinous rice during the Great Heat season, which is called "Guo Dashu". Some people say that eating lychees during the Great Heat has the same nutritional value as eating ginseng. Rice dregs are made by mixing cooked rice with white rice koji and letting it ferment until it is fully cooked. On the day of the Great Heat, it is cut into pieces, cooked with some brown sugar, and is said to be able to "greatly replenish energy." On the day of the Great Heat, relatives and friends often give each other lychees and mutton as gifts. 4. Drink old winter melon and fresh lotus leaf soup. In Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta, almost every household makes cooling soup on the day of the Great Heat or in hot summer weather. Old winter melon and fresh lotus leaf heat-relief soup is a traditional summer-relief soup among the Guangdong people. It is mainly composed of old winter melon, fresh lotus leaves and red beans. 5. Fried green grass tofu. In Wenzhou, it is a custom to fry green grass tofu during the Great Heat. Green grass tofu refers to tofu made from Chinese herbs such as grass jelly, licorice, selfheal, chrysanthemum, and honeysuckle that are fried into the shape of tofu and can be eaten after cooling. It has a cooling and detoxifying effect, and can quench thirst. In the past, many families could make their own food. 6. Drinking ginger tea Drying ginger in the sun, drinking ginger tea, and eating eggs with ginger juice are the food customs of Taizhou people on the day of the Great Heat. Because ginger juice can remove moisture from the body, it has been passed down from generation to generation. It is very popular among Taiwanese people to eat grass jelly and pineapple on the day of Great Heat. It is said that pineapples are the most delicious at this time. Grass jelly is also a famous local snack that has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. 7. Eating chicken: People in the south have the habit of eating chicken during the hottest days of the year. There is a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat young chickens during the Great Heat. Young chickens contain a certain amount of growth hormone, which has a tonic effect on children in their growth and development period as well as middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone levels. Adding an appropriate amount of ginger when cooking chicken can regulate the temperature difference between inside and outside the human body in summer, allowing the human body to adapt to the external environment and play a role in dehumidifying and strengthening the body. 8. Drinking old duck soup: A recipe widely circulated in all parts of the country is that old duck is a tonic during the Great Heat. After slow-cooking the old duck, add lotus root, winter melon, water chestnut, and coix seed to make soup, which can relieve heat and nourish the body. Old duck is a great tonic for the summer, not only is it rich in nutrients, but also because it lives in water all year round, it has a cool nature, and has the effects of nourishing the yang of the five internal organs, clearing away heat from deficiency and fatigue, replenishing blood and promoting water circulation, and nourishing the stomach and producing body fluids. 9. Drinking Fu Tea After the summer heat begins, one of the ways people get rid of the heat is to drink Fu Tea, especially in Jiangxi and other places. People have the custom of drinking Lei Cha during the Great Heat Day. Many families also make black plum tea with the black plums dried in the backyard. What’s the weather like during the Great Heat?The solar term of Great Heat falls during the "three hottest times of the year" in my country, which is the period with the most sunshine and the highest temperature in a year. Most parts of the country are dry and rainy, with temperatures in many areas reaching over 35 degrees. The so-called "three major furnaces" are also at their most prosperous.In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River north of South my country, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other areas, it is a hot and dry season, and every drop of rain is like gold. There are sayings such as "The rain in Lesser Heat is like silver, while the rain in Greater Heat is like gold", "More rain in the dog days means more rice in the granaries", "Abundant rain in the dog days means abundant grain and cotton", and "If there is no drought in the dog days, one acre of land will produce one load of rice". Just as Zuo Heshui’s poem says: “The heat is at its peak during the dog days of summer, and sitting idle is only annoyed by flies and mosquitoes. Even if war drums sound in the clouds, arrows shoot into the lotus pond like gold.” If it is cloudy and rainy before or after the Great Heat, it indicates that there will be more rain in the future. There is an agricultural proverb that says "If there is heavy rain during the Great Heat, there will be sufficient autumn water; if there is no rain or little rain during the Great Heat, there will be worries about water supply." Although high temperatures occur most frequently in the western part of South my country, rainfall is most abundant and thunderstorms are most common, making it the season with the most thunderstorms. There is a proverb here that says: "If you dodge east, you will lose everything; if you dodge west, you will not be able to escape in time." It means that in the summer afternoon, if lightning appears in the east, the rain will not fall there, but if the lightning appears in the west, the rain will come soon and it will be too late to avoid it. |
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