In July, the season of fire, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, the first in the country to revive the folk custom of “eating sheep”. In recent years, the festival has been held on the days of the summer. Summer in mid-July into the ambush that day, despite the sweat, people have to go out to restaurants to taste the family “whole sheep feast”, or thousands of home-burned lamb soup, light into the ambush on the first day of the city consumption of about 100,000 head of lamb, can be said to be spectacular. Hot days, eat warm lamb, but also add chili, pepper and other warm seasonings, drink hot liquor or beer. Hot days + warm meat + warm ingredients + wine, designed to replenish qi and blood, warming the middle and dispersing cold, regulating qi and blood, sweating to dispel evil spirits. Big red spicy mutton soup, chunks of mutton with beer, straight to drink people sweat droplets, grinning, mouth full of spicy, even called “addictive”, the body of the ambulatory cold by the opportunity of the summer yangsheng, through the hot soup steam sweating, a drum, and drive out. Cold to Yang recovery, is the “spring and summer Yang” excellent therapeutic food, deeply Peng Zu diet of the true meaning of health. So, Xuzhou people eat sheep have no reason? “Materia Medica Gleaner” in the mutton and ginseng comparisons, that it is warm, strong, strong body meat. Mutton temperature, taste sweet, with beneficial gas to make up for the deficiency, cold, warm, warm kidney, muscle strength, etc., for sexual dysfunction, chronic gastritis, malnutrition edema, anemia, neurasthenia and other Yang deficiency conditions. Modern research shows that lamb contains protein higher than rabbit, pork, its conversion of calories is also the most meat, so the winter consumption of lamb is particularly appropriate. Typhoid theory has angelica ginger mutton soup for the treatment of cold abdominal pain, body temperature, dysmenorrhea and other diseases, is a good tonic strong products, mutton can also enhance digestive function, protect the stomach lining, and has anti-aging, anti-fatigue effect. Modern nutrition has also confirmed that mutton is not only nutritious, but also contains trace sex hormones, does have aphrodisiac effect. Taking mutton long muscle strength, enhance the night and early morning penile erection ability, effectively improve sexual function, so plain cold and cold, stools are often loose, difficult to form, accompanied by impotence and premature ejaculation, may wish to often take mutton. Taking mutton in many ways, such as onion popping mutton, cumin mutton, stewed mutton soup, or cabbage fans mutton soup put some goji berries better, some people like braised mutton, or microwave oven, charcoal grilled mutton kebabs, packages of mutton dumplings and so on. Example: angelica ginger lamb soup, composition: 90 grams of angelica, ginger 100 to 150 grams, 500 grams of lamb, and auxiliary materials onion and ginger, wine, salt, monosodium glutamate. Method: the first lamb washed and cut into small pieces, put into a pot of boiling water to blanch the blood, fish out to cool, and then Angelica, ginger washed with water and cut into large pieces, with gauze package. Then take the casserole put a moderate amount of water, and then the mutton, angelica ginger package into the pot, placed on the fire after boiling, remove the foam, and then switch to the fire to cook, stewed until the mutton is cooked can be consumed. The main effect is to tonify the deficiency, warm the waist and kidneys, and warm the yin and blood. For blood deficiency and qi deficiency, yang qi deficiency caused by men and women cold limbs, fatigue, impotence, women cold infertility, frigidity, post-partum abdominal pain, menstrual disorders, have a certain degree of auxiliary therapeutic effect. This formula comes from the ancient medical sage Zhang Zhongjing book “The Golden Chamber” book, is since ancient times, widely circulated medicinal dietary formulas, for the four seasons of the good tonic. Mutton is delicious, but traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is a “hair”, “hair” refers to the food that is particularly likely to induce certain diseases (especially old diseases) or aggravate the disease. If the body of yin deficiency fire, internal heat, dry mouth, yellow tongue, hot hands and feet, dry stools, yellow urine, etc., body wounds or long sores, carbuncles, redness and swelling should not be eaten.