How about eating mutton in summer?
Eat mutton in summer and have a Yang-supporting Festival!
1, because eating mutton in dog days has the highest nutritional level. In dog days, heat accumulates in the human body. At this time, drinking mutton soup and drinking Chili oil, vinegar and garlic will inevitably make you sweat all over. This kind of sweat can take away the heat accumulated in the five internal organs and expel toxins from the body, which is beneficial to health. Because of its effectiveness, this custom has been retained and accepted by more and more people.
In the past, some places had the habit of eating sheep cream in winter. Wash 14 or 12 sheep, put in a wok, add carrots, ginger, yellow wine and water, and cook. Remove radish and ginger, remove sheep bones, put them back in the wok, add rock sugar and water, and boil the mutton until it is rotten. Take it out, let it cool, and cut it into small pieces, which is sheep cream. Take one or two or more tablets a day, depending on your situation. Eating sheep cream in summer gives you reasons to eat mutton in summer, and also gives you tips on eating mutton and shochu in summer. So there was the Mutton Festival and the Fu Sheep Festival.
3. Drinking mutton soup in summer can stimulate appetite, protect the stomach and increase appetite, especially for women who eat after childbirth. In the past, every summer, people had the custom of giving each other mutton. Mutton is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins B 1 and B2, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Its nature warms the middle warmer, dispels cold, eliminates stagnation, strengthens glands and benefits qi, and warms and tonifies kidney-yang. Mutton soup is not as hot as chicken soup, and it is warm and nourishing, which is very good for people who are weak to drink mutton soup.
Putian people pay the most attention to summer heat, eating litchi and mutton!
In normal summer weather, of course, the cooler the better. However, in our Putian area, it is just the opposite. Indulge in hot food on the hot summer day is the highlight of Putian people's festival! Among them, eating lychee and mutton soup is the most classic collocation.
Eat lychee in summer.
Walking in Putian fields, ponds and streets, people can always easily find lush litchi trees. Litchi is everywhere in Licheng? Litchi has become a shining postcard in Putian. Whenever the summer heat approaches, people who have litchi trees at home will start picking them. No matter whether the harvest is pleasant or not, everyone will tacitly leave the best litchi for the whole family to enjoy in the hot summer. However, people who don't grow lychees will go to the vegetable market or fruit stalls to buy fresh and watery lychees in hot summer.
Although it's not Chun Xue, everyone likes to eat Baliren's litchi in this way. In the old days, Putian people sat in the yard and ate lychees that had just been fished out of well water in the cool wind, which had a unique flavor. Eating litchi in summer is the most pleasant and nourishing, and its nutritional value is as high as eating ginseng.
The way of eating litchi is also unique to Putian: picking dew and soaking in well water are naturally the most poetic ways to eat litchi. But for modern people, even if it is taken out of the refrigerator, it will not reduce the enthusiasm for eating litchi. Litchi, which was not eaten that day in summer, was a delicious side dish the next morning. Put a few freshly peeled lychee meat in the boiling white rice porridge, and the unique sweetness of lychee immediately overflowed the whole bowl. If there is really a lot left, the clever housewife will carefully pick the litchi, pack it with a bamboo sieve and put it in a sunny corner to bask in the sun. After 20 or 30 days, the dried litchi is ready, which is another kind of blindly supplemented ingredients.
Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty loved litchi in Lingnan, and Emperor Taizong ordered him to whip his horse for eight hundred miles, which finally made his concubine laugh. In our Putian legend, the custom of eating litchi in summer is also related to Mei Fei, another concubine of Jiang Caiping, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
As a native of Putian, Mei Fei naturally loves litchi. In the hot summer, Mei Fei's homesickness became more and more intense. She had to travel 800 miles, and litchi in her hometown was soon put on her table. Soon, in Putian, Mei Fei's hometown, eating litchi in summer became a fashion custom, which has continued to this day.
Warm soup mutton
Compared with litchi, a fruit with unique symbolic meaning, mutton in warm soup in summer is much lower-key. Because, in the eating habits of Putian people, warm soup mutton is like an old friend. It doesn't need to look at the season, but always appears in the menu of daily food, whether it's a running water mat in the country or a banquet in the city.
As a special snack in Putian? Leadership? Warm soup mutton, because of its rich nutrition, has become another protagonist of Putian people to make up for the great summer heat. The method of making this kind of mutton is very rare: choose the best goat, slaughter it, clean it, put the whole goat in a pot, scald it with boiling soup for several times, quickly put it in a wooden bucket, then pour in a proper amount of boiling water, drown the whole goat, cover the bucket and take it out the next day. In the early morning of summer, stalls or old shops selling warm soup mutton are crowded, and people will buy a catty or two to eat at home at night.
Unlike instant-boiled mutton and roasted mutton in the north, mutton in warm soup, as its name implies, has a mild taste. When people in Putian eat, they don't take a bite of meat and wine, but pick up thin slices of mutton and stuff them into their mouths with a sauce mixed with Jiang Mo, garlic slices, rice vinegar and soy sauce.
Medically speaking, although the solar terms are dry in summer, people are easily attacked by dampness and evil. According to the custom of Putian people, spitting lychee and eating mutton can really strengthen the body and drive away moisture.
How to exercise in summer?
The first level: damp-heat level.
Summer is hot and humid, and people often feel headache, so they are prone to depression, burnout, chest tightness and poor appetite. For patients with respiratory diseases, more attention should be paid to maintenance in summer to prevent cough and recurrence of tracheal diseases. For people in damp heat constitution, the palms and soles of the feet often feel hot. Under the interaction of moisture and hot air, they are prone to constipation, and their stools look yellow and smelly.
The diet is light and easy to digest. Eat more heat-clearing and dampness-promoting things in the diet, such as mung bean porridge and red bean porridge, and you can also drink melon and lotus leaf soup. But everyone should also pay attention to maintaining indoor humidity.
The second level: sleep level.
In summer, the days are long, the nights are short, and the temperature is high at night, which causes some people to have a bad rest at night. According to Chinese medicine, is that right? Yin and yang imbalance? , will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, such as hypertension patients tend to increase blood pressure, angina patients increase the frequency of attacks.
Ensure adequate sleep. Only in this way can we maintain the normal operation of various functions of the body. Adults are advised to get 7 hours of high-quality sleep every day.
The third level: diet level.
Summer diet should not be too full, usually seven or eight points full, but we must pay attention to a comprehensive and balanced nutritional mix, not picky eaters, partial eclipse. Some people have a bad appetite because of the weather, so they can eat lightly. Professor Zhou suggested that we should eat more foods with low sugar, low salt, high carbohydrate and high protein in summer, and try to eat less spicy and fried foods.