Northwest Shanxi picked wild vegetables to eat before and after the Grain Rain Festival. In spring, plants germinate, and fresh willow and poplar leaves are picked home, soaked to remove bitterness, and seasoned after boiling. Picking fresh elm, washing hands, adding flour, commonly known as "puppet". Sophora japonica and alfalfa can also be eaten like this.

In the past, everyone in the countryside had shovels and baskets to pick vegetables. When spring came, they went to dig wild vegetables in the fields. When you come back, you can clean it, or make steamed dumplings, or seasoning dishes, such as chicory, chicory, gray vegetables, etc., brew it with boiling water, soak it to remove bitterness, and add chopped green onion and garlic as side dishes, which is light and spicy and has a unique flavor.

In the past, when there was not enough food, the villagers by the river went to the seaside to dig cattail roots, wash them, dry them in the sun, grind them into powder and mix them with food. After continuous rainy days, there is a kind of black fungus similar to laver on the ground in the forest grass, commonly known as "Pueraria lobata" and "Gegulong", which is picked in the rain, washed, blended with salt and vinegar or dried in the sun to make stuffing. It's delicious.

2. Grain Rain tea

On this day in Grain Rain, villagers in Taojiang and Anhua counties picked fresh tea and fried it in Grain Rain to make tea, commonly known as "Grain Rain tea", with sesame seeds, fried mung beans and peanuts. Anyone who can drink tea knows, "Eat good tea. Pick flower buds before it rains. " See bud in Qingming Festival, see tea in Grain Rain. The really good tea comes from Grain Rain season and tastes very mellow. According to tea picking experts, Grain Rain is also called "Tea Festival". The tea leaves picked in front of Grain Rain are fragrant and have the best taste. Therefore, it is a good time for Grain Rain to taste new tea and learn new tea. According to legend, drinking rain tea from five grains can cool and disinfect, indicating that it is not easy to get prickly heat and blisters in summer.

On this day in Grain Rain, in addition to drinking "fresh tea before the rain" at home, there is also the custom of drinking tea together to entertain, so there is a folk saying that "the teahouse in March is the clearest". On this day, teahouses all over the country are also decorated to welcome tea guests. Tea friends get together, drink a cup of fragrant and elegant "tea before rain" and talk about their experiences in drinking tea. In the old society, some literati drank "tea before rain" and paid attention to two things, thinking twice before acting.

At first glance, after the tea is washed, it gradually sinks, slowly spreads out, and then slowly stretches and dances up and down, which is full of fun; The second product, dark brown, dark green, fragrant, the entrance turned from astringent to sweet, and the throat was cool and refreshing. Look before you leap, close your eyes and meditate for a long time. It seems that the lake is full of smoke and sails, poetic and picturesque. It is said that Su Zimei, a poet of the Song Dynasty, became very poetic after drinking "tea before the rain" in Shuiyuewu, West Lake, Hangzhou, leaving a poem of "three trips to the waterfront" for later generations.

3. Toona sinensis is as tender as silk before the rain

In the past, Beijingers would pick Toona sinensis and come back to fry or mix vegetables. Toona sinensis, also known as Toona sinensis, is a deciduous tree with a straight trunk and yellowish brown bark. Often born in sunny hillside miscellaneous forests, beside valleys or on the edge of sparse forests, it is often cultivated on the edge of villages, roadsides, in front of houses and behind houses. The tender buds of Toona sinensis in spring have a unique aromatic smell and are woody vegetables with unique flavor. Can be fried, cold salad, wine fried, dried, pickled. The average family eats Toona sinensis bud gluten, which is fragrant and tough, and Tofu with Toona sinensis leaves tastes better. And the production is very simple. Just wash the Toona sinensis leaves, cut them into fine powder (tofu can be scalded with boiling water first), and mix well with fine salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil. They are green and white, white and delicious.

Grain Rain solar terms health recipes

1. Tofu mixed with tofu

Ingredients: Toona sinensis, tofu, tobacco, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.

Practice: cut tofu into pieces, put it in a pot and add water to boil, drain and cut into pieces; Wash Toona sinensis, blanch slightly, and cut into powder for later use; Put salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil in the bowl. Add Toona sinensis and stir well; Finally, pour it on the tofu and stir it gently.

2. Lily lotus seed tremella soup

Ingredients: tremella, lotus seeds, dried lily, crystal sugar and medlar.

Practice: soak tremella in warm water and wash it after about half an hour. Cut off the roots, tear the tremella into small pieces by hand, and soak the lotus seeds, lilies and medlar in water; Put the torn small pieces of tremella into a casserole, pour enough water, boil over high fire and stew over low fire for about 2 hours; Boil tremella until it is thick, then add rock sugar and stir, then add lotus seeds and cook for about half an hour; Finally, add Lily and Lycium barbarum and cook for 15 minutes.

3. Stir-fried yam with mushrooms

Ingredients: dried mushrooms, fresh yam and celery. Starch, salt and soy sauce.

Practice: Wash the mushrooms, soak them in hot water until soft, and soak them in water for later use. Peel the yam and cut into small pieces, and cut the celery into small pieces. When the oil is hot, add mushrooms, yam and celery, stir fry, and then pour mushrooms in water. When the soup is slightly dry, add appropriate amount of starch thickening and add appropriate amount of soy sauce or salt to taste.

Efficacy: invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying kidney and essence, and enhancing human resistance.

4. Cardamom Amomum and Lotus Leaf Beverage

Ingredients: cardamom 2g, Amomum villosum 2g, lotus leaf 1/2.

Practice: Wash the lotus leaf, chop it up, put it in a casserole with the washed cardamom and Amomum villosum, add enough water, cook for 20 minutes on low fire, filter it with clean gauze and take juice. Take it in the morning and afternoon.

Efficacy: It has the functions of promoting digestion, relieving swelling, promoting qi circulation and regulating stomach.

5. kelp and tremella soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of kelp, 20 grams of tremella, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Practice: wash and chop kelp, soak tremella and kelp, add water and simmer into thick soup, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar. 1 day after oral administration, can be taken frequently.

Efficacy: It has the functions of soothing liver, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney.