What traditional food does Grain Rain eat in solar terms?
Eating "Toona sinensis" in northern Grain Rain improves immunity
Toona sinensis is eaten in northern Grain Rain, and it is the season for Toona sinensis to go on the market around Grain Rain. At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis is tender as silk before the rain.
Toona sinensis, also known as Toona sinensis bud and Toona sinensis head, was called Li Hou and Tiger Eye in ancient times. It's a toon bud. Toona sinensis is generally divided into purple Toona sinensis buds and green Toona sinensis buds, especially purple Toona sinensis buds. Fresh Toona sinensis buds are rich in sugar, protein, fat, carotene and vitamin C. Toona sinensis has considerable nutritional and medicinal value, and its leaves, buds, roots, skins and fruits can be used as medicine. Toona sinensis has the functions of improving immunity, invigorating stomach, regulating qi, relieving diarrhea, moistening skin, resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation and killing insects. It should be noted that because of the high nitrate content in fresh Toona sinensis, it should be blanched with boiling water before eating.
Drinking "Grain Rain Tea" in southern Grain Rain can clear liver and improve eyesight.
Grain Rain tea, that is, tea before rain, is spring tea picked in Grain Rain season, also called spring catechu. The moderate temperature and abundant rainfall in spring, coupled with the recuperation of tea trees in winter for half a year, make the buds and leaves of spring shoots plump, green in color, soft in leaves, rich in vitamins and amino acids, and make spring tea taste fresh and fragrant. Grain Rain tea has a bud and a leaf or a bud and two leaves. Tea leaves with buds are soaked in water like ancient guns with labels, called flag guns; A bud and two tender leaves are like sparrow's tongue, called sparrow's tongue; With Qingming tea, it is a good product in a year. Generally, the price of tea before rain is relatively economical, the shape in water is good, and the taste is not inferior to that of tea before Ming Dynasty. Most people who drink tea usually prefer Grain Rain tea. The Chinese Tea Society and other relevant departments proposed that the annual lunar calendar "Grain Rain" should be regarded as the "National Tea Day" to hold various tea-related activities.
The book Shennong Materia Medica says: Drinking tea before rain is "safe and beneficial for a long time" ... intellectual man fit but not old.
Grain Rain tea is moist with rain and dew, rich in nutrition and rich in fragrance. It has a mellow taste, which is particularly beneficial to people's health, and can relieve the stagnation of the whole body: use tea to drive away dampness, use tea to prevent diseases and use tea to nourish life. It is said that drinking tea in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits, so there is a custom of picking tea in Grain Rain in the south. No matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink in order to pray for health.
However, it should be noted that when drinking the five-grain rain tea, you should be careful not to drink it when it is "fresh".
In addition, there are the following grains.
Yanlai bamboo shoots
Yanlai bamboo shoots are tender bamboo shoots unearthed when swallows come, which are called Sun Yansun, that is, spring bamboo shoots. Spring bamboo shoots are fresh and tender, with brown shell and long body, milky yellow meat, sweet and light taste and rich nutrition. They are essential vegetables for cooking delicious food. Bamboo shoots are rich in protein, dietary fiber, various amino acids, vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, iron and phosphorus, and have high nutritional value, which can effectively promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion and help prevent constipation. In addition, bamboo shoots have low calories and good weight loss effect. In addition to cooking soup, bamboo shoots can be eaten in oil and bamboo shoot oil, which is a seasonal dish of solar terms in Grain Rain.
Peach mandarin fish
In Grain Rain season, what you want to eat is mandarin fish. Mandarin fish, also known as stone mandarin fish and mandarin fish, is called koi fish. Mandarin fish has tender meat, less thorns and more meat, petal-shaped meat and delicious taste, which is the best among fish. Zhang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence, "Peach blossoms and flowing water nourish the fat of mandarin fish", which shows that the delicious taste of mandarin fish is well known in the Tang Dynasty. March is the spawning season of Siniperca chuatsi, so the fish is tender and nutritious. In addition to steaming, braised mandarin fish, mandarin fish with tin foil and iron plate, and Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish are also the best in food.
black kerneled rice
Every year in Grain Rain, Zhaoxing Dong Village has the custom of "eating black rice, scratching the face and sowing rice seeds". On this day in Grain Rain, Dong people used to soak glutinous rice with the juice of Vaccinium bracteatum leaves and steam it into black rice. Later, black rice, like the "candy" of the Han nationality, became the mascot of the Dong people's engagement. On this day in Grain Rain, young men will go to their girl's house to throw bamboo baskets and beg for black rice. The more people go, the more embarrassed the girl's family feels. It is a double moral expression of local farming culture and marriage customs.
The Legend of Grain Rain
There is a folk saying, Grain Rain, three days later, peony peony took the lead in the garden, peony pedicure. There is also a proverb, China's flower stalks only after it has fallen, and the flowers do not stagnate, which describes the spring scenery of this solar term.
In folk proverbs, there is a sad legend: It is said that during the period of Tang Gaozong, there was a young man named Grain Rain who was very good at swimming. Once, there was a flood in his hometown of Cao Zhou. He used this skill to save the villagers, risked his life to save a peony flower and asked a gardener to plant it well. A few years later, Grain Rain's mother was seriously ill, and Grain Rain had to take care of her while doing things. At this time, a beautiful woman appeared in his family, taking care of his mother every day. Grain Rain and this woman have been in love for a long time. Just when Grain Rain wanted to marry this girl, she learned that this beautiful girl was the fairy peony, and it was the peony he saved several years ago.
Fairy peony promised to stay until April 8th next year, and the slave went to settle at the entrance of the Valley. Later, the vulture, the enemy of Peony Flower Fairy, became seriously ill, forcing Peony sisters to treat her illness and brew Huaruidan wine. The peony sisters refused to take their own blood and brewed Dan wine for the evil thief to drink, but they were taken away and detained by vultures. Grain Rain has experienced many difficulties and obstacles. On his birthday, he finally broke into the magic cave, defeated the vultures and rescued Hua Xian. When everyone was ready to go home, the vulture that was not dead stabbed Grain Rain with a dark sword. Sister Peony was so angry that she picked up Grain Rain's axe and chopped the dying vulture into a paste! Turned to help Grain Rain's body, sobbing. Grain Rain saved the lives of these flowers with his own life. From then on, on the day Grain Rain died, it would rain in the sky and all the peonies would bloom in memory of Grain Rain.