About The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient Chinese traditional festival.For more than two thousand years, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month has become a traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.And the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duan Yang Jie or Chong Wu Jie.It is said that the ancient Chinese great poet, one of the world's four major cultural celebrities Qu Yuan cast Luojiang martyred days.

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What Are Those Basic Ingredients for Hot Pot?

Basic ingredients for hot pot mainly refer to hot pot food, soup base and condiment sauce. Sauce for Chongqing hot pot, also called oil dish, generally is sesame oil which can prevent body from getting too much internal heat.
Hot Pot Food
Large varieties of food can be used for hot pot food, ranged from fly in the air, walking on the land and swimming in the water. According to the nature of food, it can be classified into seafood, freshwater fishes, poultry, livestock, vegetable, and processing product. Those for cooking and eating are almost suitable for hot pot food.
Hot Pot soup base
Generally speaking, it is made into red soup, but sometimes, white soup.
Red soup means spicy soup which made from concentrated soup and pepper, fermented soy, chili bean, salt, and rice wine.
While white soup is made from chicken, duck, pig bone, ham, meat, onion and ginger. But it often used with red soup, and barely used alone.
Condiment sauce
It is an indispensable part of hot pot. Commonly seen are sesame sauce, garlic sauce, red oil sauce, spicy sauce, pepper sauce and soybean sauce. Boiled food from hot pot is extremely hot, so put it into the sauce dish can decrease its temperature making it easy to put into mouth.

Hot Pot Ingredient In Winter

As temperature is low and weather is cold in winter, diet should be arranged according to the principle of nourishing yin and maintaining Yang. For  thermoregulation, people should eat mutton, dog meat, chicken, beef, turtle, mushroom, and pig lung, and choose pepper and ginger as condiment. In cities of northern China, lack of fresh vegetable will lead to vitamin deficiency. So carrots, spinach and bean sprout should be added in hot pot to make soup base fresh and fragrant. Last but not least, avoid cold food and cold drink in winter.
As temperature is low and weather is cold in winter, diet should be arranged according to the principle of nourishing yin and maintaining Yang. For  thermoregulation, people should eat mutton, dog meat, chicken, beef, turtle, mushroom, and pig lung, and choose pepper and ginger as condiment. In cities of northern China, lack of fresh vegetable will lead to vitamin deficiency. So carrots, spinach and bean sprout should be added in hot pot to make soup base fresh and fragrant. Last but not least, avoid cold food and cold drink in winter.

Hot Pot Ingredient In Autumn

In autumn, the sky is clear and the air is comfortably cool, but the climate is obviously dry. Symptom such as dry throat, chap lip, thirsty, constipation occur easily in human’s body. During this time, people need to eat sesame, honey, grape, carrot, White fungus, wax guard and cucumber to supplement Yin and moisten lungs. Those who eat too much hot pot should drink more water, milk, tea and soy milk and avoid using spicy and dry ingredient like pepper and ginger. And people start to supplement tonic moderately in autumn, but it is still not the right time to use mutton, beef, and dog meat as hot pot food. Instead, tofu, lotus roof, and agaric. Green bean and lotus leaf can be used to cook hot pot soup before filtered.

Hot Pot Ingredient In Summer

Summer is characterized by high temperature, humid air. People in this environment tend to sweat tremendously, lack water and electrolyte, which leads to bad appetite. Therefore it is necessary to supplement water, salt, potassium, calcium, electrolyte, vitamin B/C, in summer diet. That is to say, hot pot food is better to choose vegetable, tofu, egg, meat, fish, chicken, duck, eggplant, cucumber, bitter gourd, and wax gourd. Because these food help stimulate appetite, nourish stomach, improve digestion.  
What’s more, they provide rich amino acid, vitamin, and other nutritious elements, refresh one’s mind, relieve summer heat and exhaustion. Green bean or lotus leaf gruel is such a good choice to eat after hot pot to repeal summer heat. Or a cool drink after a break for hot pot eating decreases the possibility of diarrhea. Summer is a season easy to breed bacteria, so garlic and vinegar should be added to hot pot to keep health.

Hot Pot Ingredient In Spring

In spring, climate gets warmer, everything revived, internal environment of human body has switched from winter to spring, so diet should be arranged to help body adjust to season change. And ingredients, should be picked to gently supplement Yang, such as Chinese-date, pork, beef, .meat, fish, chicken, bean product, green onion and garlic. People could also buy hot pot food according to Chinese ancient pharmacist Sun Siyi’s traditional taste theory that diet in sweet and sour taste helps nourish spleen in spring.
Climate changes a lot in spring. Hence people can add ginger to hot pot when it is cold, and sugarcane when warm. And carrots need to be added to repeal inner heat. In this way, disease from climate change can be prevented. Spring is a good time for ladies to beautify themselves. So for those women who love eating hot pot, they might as well add chrysanthemum, trotters, cucumber, hogskin.