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Why do you eat ducks in summer?

The reason for eating ducks in summer is that ducks belong to moist food suitable for summer, which means the beginning of cool autumn. At this time, the diet should follow the principle of moistening lung and strengthening spleen in summer. Summer is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the fourteenth solar term.

Being in the heat is "out of the heat", that is, out of the heat. The arrival of the summer heat marks the end of the hot weather, and the summer heat gradually fades, from hot to cold. Summer solar terms are in the period of short-term high-temperature weather (autumn tiger), which generally occurs between August and September in the Gregorian calendar.