Zongzi-the source is this.
What is zongzi? Zongzi doesn't know what he is. I often ask myself why I should throw myself into the river. Who is the most difficult person to understand in this world? Zongzi lifted her feet and shouted: The hardest thing to understand is yourself, yourself! ! ! )
Yuanyuan circle
One: Fate
Zongzi is a kind of food. Food is suitable for all ages and has different tastes. The main ingredients are glutinous rice and bamboo leaves, and the auxiliary materials are: meat, duck egg yolk, jujube, red beans, mung beans and chestnut. One side of the soil and water support one side of the people, and the northern and southern cuisines in China are different, so the Zongzi school is unique. There are too many ordinary soy sauce in the north, so Zong Zijun should be an honest and upright person, and his taste will add jujube flavor and make it sweet and waxy. The taste of the Central Plains is usually light. Zong Zijun jumped into the melting pot of society and the salty taste prevailed.
People in the north and south often travel to and from the economy, with convenient transportation. Southerners run north and northerners run south. Sweet and salty zongzi let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. Zong Zijun traveled abroad all over the world, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea. South and South people are very creative, adding colorful flavors to zongzi: chocolate, durian, pineapple, rice flour, coconut and so on. As long as it doesn't conflict with glutinous rice, all ingredients are added.
Zongzi has different shapes: triangle, square, pillow, mini and giant.
Zongzi asked himself: Who are you? From where? What is culture? What talent do you have?
Zongzi asked a circle of people around him and learned a simple story: he made it to commemorate Qu Yuan's throwing himself into the river. A long time ago, the ancients in China gave a gift to the Dragon King in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet who threw himself into the river. In order to let the Dragon King take good care of the old man Qu Yuan, he presented flowers to the Buddha. This custom has been passed down from generation to generation: Zongzi is an exchange made by ancestors to protect their children and the dragon king, and dragon boats are rowed every year on the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate their ancestors.
Zongzi frowned and dived into the water, looking for Qu Yuan's ancestors for a whole century, but couldn't find them. I found the kelp fairy who gave Qu Yuan that year. The fairy grabbed a zongzi and said, "Keep the change. You are not a zongzi. You are an elf in Li Sao. Remember, your natural mission is not only about eating, but also about cultural inheritance. "
Zongzi is scattered with hemp thread. It's shocking to hear such an id. The pearl rice grains in the zongzi pocket were thrown into the depths of the sea, and the fish, shrimps and crabs picked them up one by one and left with great interest. Knowing who you are is so important. Zongzijun is in a trance.
Because Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, Zongzi began a journey to find his roots.
Second: Source
Last night, the spring rain came and went.
The glutinous rice soaked all night is as white as pearls, and the dry and fragrant bamboo leaves are mixed with the smell of spring soil. Memory can be traced back to childhood.
Grandma wraps zongzi every year to give her children a snack for the New Year. When I was a child, I didn't understand why my grandmother always sang: Zongzi Zongzi, my son stayed up all night with me, and I was safe all year round. Hearing nursery rhymes, grandma looked up at me and smiled, not talking. She is still busy with her work: laying zongzi leaves in her left hand, scooping a spoonful of rice in her right hand, laying a layer of rice, a layer of meat, a layer of chestnuts, a layer of red beans and mung beans, and finally laying a layer of rice, covering the other two zongzi leaves on it, just like covering a baby with a quilt, which is gentle and gentle. A small quilt is like a bag, with two ends overlapping and sealed. Zongzi rope is finely wound and twisted into a fancy shape. As soon as the scissors are cut, the beautiful pillow zongzi will jump out vividly. Jiaozi, a pillow wrapped in hills, stayed up all night with firewood. Mother was careful not to let the water in the pot dry and the firewood go out. I got up at five o'clock in the morning and ran to the kitchen trembling: "Happy New Year, Grandma!" " "Grandma happily wiped her hands and handed me a big red envelope for lucky money. I held a red envelope in my hand, glanced at the cauldron of music, and stood on tiptoe to reach it hard. The aroma of zongzi came face to face: "Zongzi is really fragrant." Grandma was happy, wiped the beads of sweat on her head, took out a cucumber baby from the pot, carefully untied the zongzi rope, and let me sit on a small bench near the stove and eat slowly: one mouthful of glutinous rice, two mouthfuls of sweet red beans, three mouthfuls of soft mung beans, four mouthfuls of chestnuts, five mouthfuls of pork honey, six mouthfuls of glutinous rice and seven or eight mouthfuls of bamboo leaves. The mouth is full of oil, the heart is full of fragrance, and the taste buds are all love. At this time, my mother began to snore with steaming palm leaves in her hand. . . . . .
Many years later, I learned to wrap the fragrance of zongzi in my memory before I knew the hardships. Purchasing bamboo leaves, preparing glutinous rice, curing pork, peeling chestnuts, making zongzi and cooking zongzi are all done by myself. After a hard day's work, my hands and feet are numb, my eyes are sleepy, my back is sore and my back hurts. I sit for four or five hours. I don't know how my grandmother got through it. When the wrapped zongzi was delivered to the mother thousands of miles away, the mother's first sentence was: "It's delicious." I know that the hard work of cooking zongzi instantly turned into happiness, and this hard work is sweet to everyone. A happy flower appeared on the wrinkled face of an 80-year-old mother: the zongzi was wrapped a little lightly for the first time, and the taste was not authentic. This is secondary. What matters is the source-it is sweet and flowing.
Where is the root of Zongzi? In grandma's love.
Three: Yuan
Grandma said that zongzi is the root of leaving home. In spring, the roots will sprout and grow. On the solstice of summer, the leaves are too thick to dissolve. You should boil them in water so that they are fresh and delicious.
Zongzi has a crisp bamboo flavor. When people accidentally use things in nature, they suddenly find that they can get rid of dampness, so there is an original record: aromatic herbs have dehumidification effect. The ancients used practice to remove the false from the true, and cheap and easily available natural herbs were passed down by ordinary people.
An old man went up the mountain to collect medicine in summer. He was thirsty and felt sick after eating mountain spring water. When he got home, his stomach was bloated and he couldn't sleep. Grandpa's wife picked bamboo leaves from the mountain and burned wood to cook. Grandpa smelled the fragrance of bamboo leaves, and his stomach growled and swelled slightly. Grandpa was thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he asked his wife to put some bamboo leaves in the water. After drinking bamboo leaf water, the swelling disappeared by half. Grandma saw that her wife was in a better mood, so she imitated the way she wrapped rice in bamboo leaves and cooked it in water. After eating bamboo leaf rice in the evening, grandpa was refreshed and his stomach recovered as usual. Grandma said that thanks to the guidance of Zhu Xian, she was able to survive.
Since ancient times, many once delicious foods in China have been discovered by ancient doctors, but only forgotten. If the truth is covered up by some superficial stories, food will become a mere formality and lose its cultural heritage value.
Bamboo leaves are a member of aromatic herbs. For example, on the solstice of summer, people expel the evil of summer, hang moxa sticks and calamus on the doors, and use fragrant herbs as decoction pieces and moxa sticks to prevent dryness and humidity through air.
So what is the real meaning of zongzi?
Look at the function of zongzi ingredients first.
Bamboo leaves: Bamboo leaves have the function of fragrance and dryness. The ancients studied bamboo leaves entering the heart meridian and kidney meridian, which can induce diuresis, clear the heart and relieve annoyance.
Glutinous rice: Glutinous rice strengthens the spleen and benefits qi.
Jujube: spleen and stomach.
Adzuki bean: invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis.
The function of ingredients is summarized from the function: Zongzi eliminates dryness and dampness and cares for the spleen and stomach.
When do you eat zongzi? It must be the Dragon Boat Festival, right, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month?
The following is an explanation of what the Dragon Boat Festival is. Dragon Boat Festival is not the fifth day of May. End means positive, end door is the main entrance, noon means south, and noon door is the south gate. The end door of the Forbidden City in Beijing is the main entrance, the first door. In ancient times, the twelve earthly branches were used to indicate the direction, and the word "Zi" was due north and the word "Wu" was due south. The meridian gate is the south gate of the Forbidden City. The end door can be counted as the outer door of the noon gate.
Dragon Boat Festival means that the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer. The solstice in summer is therefore called the Dragon Boat Festival. From summer to sunrise, the sun directly reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly to the Tropic of Cancer (23.26 degrees north latitude), which is the longest place in the northern hemisphere. The higher the dimension, the longer the day.
Eating zongzi is related to solar terms. From summer to the future (June 2 1 Gregorian calendar), the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer, and the temperature rises and the humidity increases. Therefore, eating zongzi from summer to the future can be eaten all summer, and the amount should be moderate.
The original source of zongzi is from the perspective of cultural inheritance, not only from the weather, but also from traditional Chinese medicine. When the weather is hot, you can eat zongzi to cool off the heat, and you can also play water sports, such as rowing dragon boats, swimming and playing with water, so that people will be refreshed.
Therefore, Zongzi itself is not only to commemorate Mr. Qu Yuan, but its core values are cultural inheritance, TCM cultural health preservation and climatology. A small food, from such a source, is not simple.
Four: circle
Everything has yin and yang. The aromatic dehumidification of zongzi leaves is a combination of sunny and wet weather to achieve peace. But some people say, ha, can such a good baby be eaten while cuddling, standing, sitting and sleeping? If you eat too much zongzi, if you eat too much spleen and qi, your spleen and stomach will go on strike and you will feel uncomfortable all over. Good things should be enough.
Too much yang and too little yin, too much yin and too little yang, unbalanced and uncoordinated. With the help of Mr. Qu Yuan, Mr. Zongzijun ate too much exercise and recited Li Sao, which can help digestion and strengthen the stomach, replenish qi and strengthen the brain, and kill two birds with one stone.