Solar Festival Custom: What's the saying about eating mutton in summer?
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Mutton, warm and sweet, enters the lung meridian and eats its meat, which can make up for fatigue and Qi Long; Eat liver, nourish liver and improve eyesight; Eating its lungs can stop chronic cough; Eating its kidney can benefit essence and help yang; Eating its belly can eliminate nausea and vomiting. Sheep blood, detoxification; Goat milk can nourish yin and moisten dryness, and cure nausea and thirst. Medically, it is often said that "three volts should supplement it", and warm food should be given priority to. Mutton is dry and warm in nature, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency, which is a good product for tonic and aphrodisiac in summer.
Sheep heart is extremely tender, does not waste teeth, has a small smell, and is suitable for the elderly. Sheep liver can be divided into waxy and hard, and its color must be observed. Brown liver is hard and sticky. Because sheep only eat grass, there is no "clenbuterol" in viscera and meat, so it is much safer than eating pig liver and pork.
The "vase head" in the sheep's stomach is fat and soft, and there is no pain of lean meat. Because it is rich in gastrin, people with stomach problems should eat it. Sheep feet are skin and bones. If they are not cooked, they will be very tired and laborious to eat. The tender ones are all tasty. Sheepskin is rich in collagen. At the same time, according to the traditional Chinese medicine that sheep enter the lung meridian, the lung governs fur, and the skin is used to make up the skin, its beauty effect can not be underestimated.
Sheep blood, while it is hot, can be given first aid in places where there are few doctors and medicines and the traffic is inconvenient. Make soup with sheep blood and tofu, one red and one white, and put some garlic leaves on it. This is an economical and popular dish, which is suitable for people of all ages in Xian Yi. It can remove oxygen free radicals from the human body.
Mutton porridge is to cut the lamb tenderloin into small pieces and cook porridge with rice. Some people let one or two sparrows cook together, and the book says that it specializes in treating kidney deficiency in the elderly. Although sparrows can tonify yang, they are protected by law. Eating sparrows can tonify kidney. If they are detained for this, it will not be worth the loss. Add one or two sheep kidneys instead of sparrows.
In the past, some places had the habit of eating sheep cream in winter. Clean 1/4 or 1/2 sheep, put in a wok, add radish, 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.
In summer, the human body consumes a lot of energy. At this time, it is very appropriate and necessary to supplement energy with mutton filled with long gas. Because of its effectiveness, this custom has been retained and accepted by more and more people. But mutton is warm, not everyone is suitable. People with colds, coughs, skin diseases and hemoptysis should not eat mutton. As for people with yin deficiency and fire flourishing, it is better to eat less. In addition, you can't eat too much mutton. If you have abdominal distension after eating mutton, you can use mulberry leaf tea to solve it.