What food do you eat during the Spring Festival?
1, bamboo shoots
When it comes to eating spring, you have to mention bamboo shoots. Spring bamboo shoots are crisp and delicious, and they are fragrant and sweet when chewed. They are known as "the first vegetarian food" and have been loved by people since ancient times. Scholars and gourmets are amazed at it, and there is a saying that "early adopters are like mushrooms after rain". If carnivores are contemptuous, eating bamboo shoots is just the opposite. The taste of bamboo shoots is so elegant and meaningful. Chinese medicine believes that spring bamboo shoots have the effects of "benefiting nine orifices, dredging blood vessels, resolving phlegm and promoting fluid production, and promoting digestion and abdominal distension".
2. Toona sinensis
There is also a folk saying that "eat Toona sinensis buds on March 8". Every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, it is a good season for the listing of Toona sinensis buds. Toona sinensis can not only make various special dishes, but also prevent and treat diseases. It is a natural green health food with the same origin of medicine and food. According to modern nutritional analysis, the vitamin content of Toona sinensis bud is 1 times higher than that of tomato. Toona sinensis also contains protein, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements, which is the highest in vegetables. Toona sinensis buds can be made into various dishes, and its new branches and leaves taste the best. It tastes delicious and mellow, and also has the effects of stimulating appetite, nourishing skin and strengthening body.
3. Cherry
Known as "the first branch of spring fruit", it is cultivated all over China. Cherry fruit is plump, delicious, juicy, bright in color and rich in nutrition, and its iron content is particularly prominent, which is more than 20 times that of citrus, pear and apple, ranking first among fruits. Cherry is warm, sweet and slightly sour, and has the effects of nourishing middle jiao, benefiting face, strengthening spleen and appetizing. Eating cherries in spring can make people sweat, benefit qi, dispel wind and penetrate rash.
Step 4: strawberries
Among the anti-cancer fruits, the role of strawberries ranks first. Fresh strawberries contain a wonderful tannic acid substance, which can produce anti-toxic effect in the body and prevent the formation of cancer cells. In addition, there is an amine in strawberry, which can also play a good role in preventing leukemia, aplastic anemia and other blood diseases.
5. honey
Chinese medicine believes that honey is sweet, enters the spleen and stomach, can replenish the middle energizer, moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, and is the most ideal tonic in spring. Therefore, in spring, if you can drink 1-2 spoonfuls of honey every day, take it with a cup of warm water or add milk, it will have a nourishing effect on your body.
6.chickpeas
Chickpea, also known as Chinese cabbage and Shanghai green, is one of the seasonal vegetables in southern spring. Chickpea is a tender seedling of Chinese cabbage, with tender taste and delicate flavor. Chinese cabbage is the most abundant vegetable in minerals and vitamins. The contents of calcium, vitamin C and carotene in Chinese cabbage are higher than those in Chinese cabbage, and the contents of sugar and carbohydrate are slightly lower than those in Chinese cabbage.
Tips for keeping healthy during the Spring Festival
Drink alcohol in moderation.
There is bound to be wine on the table during the Chinese New Year, but when it is difficult, it is often touched one after another. Drinking is harmful to your health. Alcohol not only damages your liver, but also affects your blood sugar. Moreover, alcohol contains a lot of calories. For example, a glass of white wine or champagne contains 89 calories, which is equivalent to 0.2 kg of beef ham. Although the quantity is small, if you drink alcohol without restraint, the calories will be high. In addition, alcohol will weaken your control and judgment, and it is likely to make you eat more snacks that you could have given up.
The so-called "drinking" means drinking in moderation at the New Year's Eve to protect the body from alcohol. If someone keeps toasting you, but you can't refuse, take a sip, and don't drink every cup to the bottom.
Keep exercising during the holidays.
The study found that during the winter vacation, the average weight of adults will increase by about half a kilogram, and this increase in weight is completely impossible to lose in the second year. During the holidays, if you can't control your mouth and walk, you will inevitably get fat. Therefore, during the holidays, we should always keep exercising and keep exercising, so as to keep the weight unchanged or grow slowly, and some people can lose weight instead.
Organize family photos
It is more and more convenient to take pictures now. Not only some cameras are easy to operate, but also mobile phones and tablets have the function of taking pictures. Polaroid cameras are also very popular among young people. The convenience of taking photos enables people to record the beautiful moments in their lives anytime and anywhere, but also because there are too many photos and there is not so much patience and time to sort them out, a large number of unsorted photos must have accumulated in a year.
Research shows that sorting out photos can release stress, and when you see these photos again, you will get great emotional satisfaction. When you put a photo into an album, it will definitely become the most precious spiritual wealth for yourself and your family.
The significance of spring festival blessing
When posting Spring Festival couplets, the word "Fu" should be posted backwards, indicating that the word "Fu" has come (below). Spring Festival couplets, also known as spring stickers, are one of the red festive elements posted during the New Year. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for China people to depict beautiful images and express good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words.
Spring Festival couplets color
The color of couplets is related to local folk customs. What you can usually see is red, which means welcome. In some places, there are white, yellow, purple, green and blue. For example, in Hubei, yellow represents missing relatives who have just passed away, purple-blue represents the second year of offering sacrifices to the deceased, and green represents the third year of offering sacrifices to the deceased. In some places, white represents missing relatives who have just passed away.
The moral of Spring Festival couplets
As early as the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago, peach stalks, also known as peach symbols, were hung in the Central Plains during the Spring Festival. Fu Cha Dunchong's Spring Festival couplets at the age of Yanjing in Qing Dynasty recorded: Spring Festival couplets, that is, Fu Tao also. Since entering the customs, some scholars have written Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of shops in order to polish their writing style. After the sacrifice of the stove, it is gradually glued on to make the stove look brand-new. Remove the old firecrackers from the traditional Spring Festival couplets; The renewal of peach symbols in Song Dynasty and Wang Anshi's poems always change new peaches into old ones, and we can also see the relationship between Spring Festival couplets and peach symbols.