What traditional food does Grain Rain eat in solar terms?
1, eat Toona sinensis
As the saying goes: "Toona sinensis buds are tender before the rain, and Toona sinensis buds grow long after the rain." Before and after Grain Rain, it is a good time to eat Toona sinensis, especially in the northern region. Eating Toona sinensis in Grain Rain is the most fashionable and expensive dish at present.
2. Drink five grains of rain tea
The folk proverb says, "Grain Rain and Grain Rain pick tea in the rain", and Grain Rain is the time to pick tea. The tea leaves picked in front of Grain Rain are fragrant and have the best taste. So Grain Rain tried new tea and got used to it.
Step 3 eat coriander
"Qingming Snow Rest, Grain Rain Frost Rest". Spleen was in vigorous phase around Grain Rain 15 and the last 3 days in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Chinese medicine believes that coriander is warm and sweet, which can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion, induce diuresis and relieve constipation, and has the functions of sweating, promoting digestion and reducing qi. Suitable for colds and indigestion. Eating coriander in spring can dispel the cold, especially when it is chilly in spring.
4. Black 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, young men and women fully express their love. Young men will go to the 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.
Principles of seasonal health preservation in Grain Rain
1, drink more water at ordinary times.
Drinking water can increase the circulating blood volume, which is beneficial to nourishing the liver and excreting metabolic waste, and can reduce the damage of poisons to the liver. In addition, hydration is also beneficial to gland secretion, especially the secretion of digestive juices such as bile.
Drinking scented tea in spring is helpful to dispel the cold evil accumulated in the body in winter, promote the hair growth of human yang, and stagnate and evacuate. Moderate drinking tea can also refresh you, but don't be greedy for cold drinks in spring.
2, the diet should be light
From the thick taste of cream in winter to the mild temperature, the diet should be warm and avoid cold. In animal foods, we should eat less high-fat foods such as fat meat, because greasy foods are prone to satiety and fatigue.
People with cold stomach can often eat ginger to drive away cold and warm stomach; Asthma patients can take some ginger honey water to moisten dryness and relieve asthma; Patients with chronic bronchitis should fast or eat less spicy food. Others should not eat more irritating food, so as not to help the fire and hurt the body.
Step 3 eat more vegetables
After winter, most people will have insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis, night blindness and some skin diseases in spring.
Therefore, with the arrival of spring and the listing of a large number of fresh vegetables, people must eat more fresh vegetables in order to have a balanced nutrition and good health.
4. Increase sweetness and decrease acidity
In spring, the liver's drainage function is in the most vigorous season, so it is necessary to eat some foods that will inhibit the growth of liver qi, such as some sour foods, which have the effect of convergence and absorption and have a good effect on inhibiting liver qi. But if it's a group of people with liver yin deficiency, it's because they eat less sour food to prevent excessive liver qi. Eating some mild food in spring, such as red dates, can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also nourish yin and replenish blood. Yam is also a good product for health preservation in spring, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying kidney and solidifying essence.
Step 5 eat more fruits
Fruit is not only rich in high nutritional value, but also can enhance our body's resistance. Spring belongs to the rainy season, the weather is changeable and it is easy to catch a cold. Eating more fruits can help us keep fit and improve our immunity. Such as bananas, strawberries, apples and cherries.
Grain Rain's Food Culture
April 20th every year is the Fisherman's Day in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. This festival originated from Grain Rain Festival. Fishermen in the northern coastal areas of China have celebrated Grain Rain Festival for more than 2,000 years, and it was renamed Fisherman's Day in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty (182 1). On this day in Grain Rain, fishermen in Shandong coastal areas prayed for the blessing of Poseidon, smooth sailing and a bumper harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today, wealthy fishermen in Rongcheng held a grand "sea sacrifice" activity in the Grain Rain, toasted Poseidon, and then set sail for fishing.
In the old days, a Japanese Grain Rain painting, Zhang Tianshi, was posted on the door in Linfen, Shanxi, named "Forbidden Scorpion". Shaanxi Fengxiang Scorpion Curse is woodcut, which shows that there is a great demand. It was printed with the words: "In Grain Rain, in mid-March, scorpions showed off their bravado. God chicken bites, poisonous insects turn into water ... "In the center of the picture, the rooster holds the insect with a big scorpion under his paw. This painting is printed with a spell. The saying that the rooster cures the scorpion has been circulating among the people for a long time. Back to the fifty-fifth ghost story novel of Journey to the West, the Monkey King Pig Bajie is no match for Scorpion Essence, and Guanyin knows that he can't get close to him. So we had to ask the Monkey King to invite Pleiadian officials, and it succeeded. Pleiadian officials were originally a rooster with two crowns. It is described in the book that the Pleiadian star official showed his prototype-the rooster, and the rooster called out to the scorpion essence, and the scorpion essence immediately showed its prototype, which was a scorpion the size of a pipa. The cock crowed again, and the scorpion died delicate on the hillside. Scorpions are also forbidden in Shandong folk customs. Xiajin county annals in the sixth year of Qing Qianlong: "Grain Rain, cinnabar forbids scorpions." The folk custom of "banning scorpions" reflects people's feelings of expelling pests and longing for harvest and peace.
There was a custom of "going to Grain Rain" in ancient times. On this day, young women in Grain Rain visited relatives in the village, and some people came back after walking in the wild.
According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. Therefore, no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink.
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 has the functions of improving immunity, invigorating stomach, regulating qi, relieving diarrhea, moistening skin, resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation and killing insects.
Grain Rain's custom of offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Wen Zu, and Grain Rain's offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Baishui County, Shaanxi Province, is a folk tradition that has spread for thousands of years since the Han Dynasty.