The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and sometimes it's even unbearable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt turns out that I don't pay much attention to this, because there is heating in winter and air conditioning in summer, and I can hardly feel the extreme contrast of the four seasons. But since I came to Boredom, I rarely use the air conditioner when I'm alone, except when the bar opens.

Liqing: They don't usually use air conditioning, and of course, they don't need it at all.

When I had the heart to seriously feel the difference between the four seasons, I realized that the four seasons were so distinct. In the sixth month of the lunar calendar, sometimes it is so hot that you can't even wear clothes, and the folding fan has become a must-have best friend at the bedside.

Thunderstorms also became more abundant, but they were all very short, coming and going in a hurry, and the rain that fell could not dissolve the suffocation of the summer heat at all, but only like a steamer being lifted from the lid, blowing a cool breeze, allowing people to take a deep breath, and then the lid of the steamer was closed again.

Sometimes I think that the white dragon is already absent from this world, but there will still be lightning and thunder in the sky, and it seems that this world really exists just as well without anyone, no matter how powerful and legendary he once was. But who is the one who has been in charge of thunderstorms in the sky? Will it be dragons too?

It is worthy of the summer season, the real heat is difficult, and it is extremely important to prevent heat stroke and cool down, so I boil all kinds of summer soup more and more often.

In ancient times, when there were no air conditioners and electric fans, people borrowed the summary of these countless years of experience to spend the long hot summer, right?

There are many kinds of summer soups, not only the ingredients used, but sometimes medicinal herbs are added, such as licorice, zexiao, lotus leaf, soil poria, kapok, which are commonly used in this season. As for the ingredients, they are used more, such as black plum, hawthorn, bitter gourd, barley, and lotus seeds, which are all suitable for making soup and syrup in this season, which has the effect of preventing heatstroke and cooling down, and removing fire and appetizing.

These days, the most common thing I make is sour plum soup, which is a combination of black plum hawthorn licorice and rock sugar, boiled in a pot, and chilled when it is cooled, which is the taste of the sour plum soup on the market in Jiulong Zhai, which is not too sweet. The pharmacy also released a prepared sour plum soup, if you want to save trouble, you just buy it, open a portion and throw it into the pot to cook. But now I like the ultimate taste of choosing my own ingredients at the market and mixing them with my own hands, so that I can continue to enter the country, and I feel like a housewife.

It is also common to make four-bean soup, where red beans, white lentils, mung beans, black beans and licorice are soaked and boiled together in a casserole. After the fire boils, change the heat to a low heat and simmer for more than two hours, until the beans and rice are ripe, add rock sugar or brown sugar to taste, and the hot drink is delicious.

Food grows from the earth, absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon, and feeds for human beings, becoming a part of our body. Amazingly, they are born with many wonderful functions, and after entering the human body, they can unconsciously adjust the functions and microcirculation of the human body.

Take the four-bean soup as an example, red beans can clear heat and water, lentils can dissolve dampness and nourish the spleen, mung beans are cold, which is a good product for clearing heat and removing fire, while black beans are relatively mild, which is not only nutritious, but also can neutralize part of the cold nature of mung beans, so that it is not too cold. All this is recorded in the ancient classics of traditional Chinese medicine, and at that time, we already knew how to coexist with all things in nature. When I think about it, I suddenly feel grateful for these ordinary ingredients.

This year is really a wonderful year, there are many special days that coincide, such as the beginning of spring and the Spring Festival, such as the birthday of Mangzhong and the dragon, such as Xiaoxia and June 6.

June 6 is a strange day, and for some reason there are different rituals in different places, perhaps because the number "six" has been regarded as a symbol of good luck since ancient times, or maybe something did happen a long, long time ago. In short, for people, June 6 is probably more memorable than the summer solar term.

This day is commemorated in different ways across the country, and it varies greatly. Some places are sacrificed, some places are vegetarian, some places eat mutton, and some places go back to their parents' homes. In addition, on the day of June 6, people can take off the colorful thread tied to the wrist on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits, and then throw it high, it is said that this will be taken away by the magpie, and until the seventh day of the seventh month of the following July, it will become the material for weaving the magpie bridge on the Milky Way to help the annual meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Although the multicolored line is small, there are hundreds of millions of people in the world, and if each person throws a multicolored line, it is enough to weave a large-scale colorful bridge. Love is the eternal theme of the human world, and even if it sounds like a fantasy, it does not prevent people from following this romantic custom.

Maybe it's because I hope I must have a beautiful love.

Another widespread custom on June 6 is "washing" and "drying". Bathing, washing clothes, and even in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it was still the traditional "elephant washing day", which led the elephants to the waterhole to bathe and play, attracting many people to watch. On this day, people also spread out the washed clothes, as well as the grain and agricultural products that have just been harvested, and the roof of the courtyard is full of colors, which is very spectacular. Even large and small temples and Taoist temples are accustomed to holding a "scripture drying meeting" on this day, and all the scriptures and books stored in the house are taken out to dry, so this day is also called the "Drying Festival".

In ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, and the customs of various places were very different, but there would be such similar customs on the same day, probably because of this season, the sunshine is indeed very good, right?

The sun is a presence of light, and as long as the sun is still hanging high in the sky, it seems to be safe, and there is nowhere to hide in darkness and evil.

In fact, there is another name for this day, called "drying dragon robe".

Some people say that the reason why there is such a name is because this day is the day of the dragon king in the dragon palace to choose to dry clothes and dry treasures, the dragon king Si Yunyu, so the day of the dragon king's drying will never rain, on the contrary, the sun will be very good, the clothes will not rot, and the books will not beetle, so people will follow the clothes on such a day.

But now, every day I listen to the legend related to the "dragon", my heart is always like playing a drum, quite unpeaceful.

All the legends are not groundless, but because they are so old that they have lost their original color. I know that the real dragon is not the dragon king at the bottom of the sea, so how did this day have to do with dragons?

What kind of relationship does the dragon god related to the "sun-dried dragon robe" have with the white dragon?

I still remember the day of "Dragon's Birthday", Liqing seemed very excited, and her happiness could be experienced even if she didn't say it, so I thought that June 6 would also be a special day. But for some reason, I feel that Liqing doesn't like this day very much, she has been listless since a few days ago, and she seems to be in a bad mood. (To be continued.) )