In fact, China has a long history of planting mung beans. As early as thousands of years ago, people began to plant mung beans, but in the past, people mainly used mung beans as fertilizer, not for eating, and the record of mung beans' cooling and summer-relieving effect can be traced back to Sun Simiao, the king of medicine!
Sun Simiao believes that mung beans have the function of relieving summer heat, and can also treat abdominal distension, while the use method invented by Sun Simiao is to boil mung beans with water into a shape similar to porridge, so you can take them. This is also the embryonic form of mung bean soup, just as jiaozi was originally used to treat frozen ears in winter. Slowly, on the basis of medicine, mung bean soup has gradually evolved into a must-have drink for every household in summer!
Today, mung bean soup can be said to be a cool summer diet in the north and south streets of China, among which Su's mung bean soup and Chao's mung bean soup are the most famous. Although the raw materials of mung bean soup are very common, it is not easy to cook a bowl of good mung bean soup!