Traditional cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day
"Cold porridge" originated from the Cold Food Festival in Zhong Er, Jin Wengong in the Spring and Autumn Period (one of the ancient festivals, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day), when the hero meson pushed himself to death. Because the Cold Food Festival is similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people later merged into one festival, which evolved into the custom of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the festival, people are not allowed to move fireworks, so it is necessary to prepare cold food such as porridge to commemorate it. Cold porridge is a holiday diet handed down from the Cold Food Festival.
Ingredients: 5g of Bai Meihua and 80g of japonica rice.
Practice: Boil japonica rice into porridge, then add Bai Meihua and cook for two or three minutes. Eat a bowl for three to five days at a time.
Efficacy: Plum blossom is flat, which can soothe the liver and regulate qi and stimulate appetite. People with poor appetite have a good eating effect, while healthy people have more energy when eating.
Matters needing attention in eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day
1, be careful if you have a bad stomach.
The Qingming cold food is indispensable to the green ball, which is composed of sugar skin, green skin and white skin green ball. Green ball is mainly made of wormwood mixed with glutinous rice, which is a kind of indigestible food. People with poor gastrointestinal function should eat carefully, especially those with pancreatitis, gastritis, cholecystitis and gallstones, as well as the elderly and children. Eating green balls while they are hot, starch will age after cooling, which not only makes the taste worse, but also reduces the digestion and absorption rate, and is also prone to intestinal diseases. Green balls should not be eaten with a lot of oil or irritating food, so as not to increase the burden on the stomach. It should be eaten with vegetables rich in dietary fiber, yogurt with intestine moistening function or hawthorn to help digestion.
2. Snails should be cleaned.
During the Qingming period, snails did not breed. At this time, the snails are plump and plump, and they have the reputation of "Qingming snails are better than geese" among the people. However, you should pay attention to eating snails. Most snails grow in dirty places, and there are a lot of parasites in their bodies, which can easily lead to intestinal diseases such as cholera and hepatitis A. Snails bought from the market must be stocked for more than three days, dripped with a few drops of vegetable oil or sesame oil, so that the snails can discharge the mud in the intestinal cavity. Change the water several times a day, brush it with a brush, twist off the tail, blanch it, heat it at high temperature, and fry it thoroughly. At this time, you can cook. There are many ways to eat snails. You can fry them with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook, pick snail meat, mix, drink, rot and simmer.
Step 3 stay away from contaminated wild vegetables
During the Qingming Festival, many people will bring some roadside wild vegetables when they go hiking to worship their ancestors, which is very common in Jiangnan area. Wild vegetables are highly sought after in cities full of big fish and meat. Although wild vegetables look good, you can't eat them indiscriminately. Some wild vegetables are poisonous. If it is a potherb on the roadside or near a polluted canal, it will be poisoned if it contains heavy metals such as lead and mercury or other pollutants. In order to maintain the nutritional value of wild vegetables, experts suggest that it is best to eat them by steaming, scalding, making soup or stuffing, and pay attention to the hygiene of the processing links in the cold salad of wild vegetables.
4. Do not make up the liver.
At the same time, don't replenish the liver in this solar term. According to the theory of TCM health preservation, the liver belongs to wood, and the fire is the heart, so the heart will be too strong in this solar term, so this period is the prone period of hypertension, and patients with hypertension should attach great importance to it.
During the Qingming period, the diet should be warm and eat more fruits and vegetables, especially seasonal vegetables such as leeks and shepherd's purse. During the Qingming period, it is also suitable for eating sweet potatoes, Chinese cabbage, radishes, taro and other foods to warm the stomach and eliminate dampness.
Brief introduction of Tomb-Sweeping Day
Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival. Jin Wengong designated the second day of the Cold Food Festival as Tomb-Sweeping Day. In most parts of Shanxi, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yushe County and other places celebrated the Cold Food Festival two days ago; Yuanqu County also pays attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before, and the light cold food the day before.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Generally, it is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, and the festival is very long. There are two sayings: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10, and these 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally meant grave-sweeping day, and the government of the Republic of China designated 15 days after the vernal equinox in 935 as a national holiday, also known as the national grave-sweeping day.
"Almanac": "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, which is used for Qingming, when everything is clean and bright, and when it is covered, everything is clean and bright, hence the name." As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring ploughing. Therefore, there is a saying that "before and after the Qingming Festival, melons, fruits and beans are planted".
Tomb-Sweeping Day's article on traditional cold food;
★ The legend and origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day eating cold food.
★ Why is Tomb-Sweeping Day called Cold Food Festival?
★ Why does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat cold food? What's the point?
★ Introduction of traditional food in Cold Food Festival
★ The difference between Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival.
★ Cold Food Festival custom
★ The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day eating cold food.
★ What are the traditional folk customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
★ The difference between Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day.
★ Why does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat cold food?