In addition to the Lantern Festival, a representative holiday food, there are many other holiday foods around the country.
Eat steamed bread and wheat cakes in Pujiang, Zhejiang. Steamed bread is made of dough, and wheat cake is round, which means "reunion of children and grandchildren".
Taizhou area eats rotten soup after watching lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month every year. Sauté ed soup with shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, fresh duckweed, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan watercress, spinach, etc. Add a little rice flour and cook it into a salty paste.
The rotten soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, made of sweet potato powder or lotus root powder with lotus seeds, candied dates and longan.
In Qufu, Shandong Province, on the night of Lantern Festival, lights carved from bean powder or radish are lit in front of every household.
Lantern Festival food health
Lantern Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first month. All kinds of Yuanxiao dumplings are dazzling, all of which use glutinous rice as the main raw material. Compendium of Materia Medica points out that glutinous rice is a valley for nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting the lungs and benefiting qi. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, which can nourish human blood and spleen and stomach after eating. Common glutinous rice is white and purple. Every100g of glutinous rice contains about 7g of protein, 75g of carbohydrates and multivitamins. Yuanxiao and Tangyuan with different flavors are made through processing and ingredients, but their nutritional value is much higher than that of ordinary rice flour. Now people add fruit and vegetable juice (pumpkin juice, spinach juice, celery juice, tomato juice, pineapple juice? ) to enrich the nutrients in rice noodles. At the same time, there are many kinds of fillings for Yuanxiao, such as jujube paste, hawthorn, chocolate, black and white sesame, rose, fruit, nut, bean paste, fruit juice, ham and fresh meat. , dazzling. Yuanxiao is delicious and rich in ingredients, especially when it is just cooked and eaten while it is hot.
Four tips for making Yuanxiao.
Boil the water: After the water is boiled, put the Yuanxiao into the pot, gently push it away with a spoon, and let it rotate for several weeks without sticking to the pot wall.
Slow cooking: after the Lantern Festival float, quickly switch to slow cooking. Otherwise, the Lantern Festival will keep rolling, and it will be difficult to cook and eat outside.
Order cold water: In the cooking process, add a small amount of cold water every time you open the pot to keep the Yuanxiao in the pot tumbling. Boil the water for two or three times, then cook for a while, and you can eat it. The jiaozi cooked in this way is moderate in hardness and sweet and greasy.
Cooking in time: glutinous rice flour with raw Yuanxiao has more water content, which will deteriorate after being left for a long time and boil easily when frozen. It's best to cook for the Lantern Festival now, and don't put it on for more than three days. Once the Lantern Festival is changed, you can't eat it. Now, if you buy frozen Yuanxiao, you should eat it in time, and it is best not to store it for more than a week.
In addition, when tasting Yuanxiao, whether it is boiled or fried, it should be cooked thoroughly. When frying Yuanxiao, it's best to make a few holes in it to prevent it from bursting and scalding.
Dietary taboos of Lantern Festival
After the Lantern Festival, you have to eat Yuanxiao, just like eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which means reunion. Yuanxiao in the north is mostly sweet, including white sugar, red bean paste, sesame and hawthorn, while those in the south are sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian. The skin of Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice contains more starch, high viscosity and is not easy to digest. People with poor gastrointestinal function, the elderly and children should pay special attention when eating, so as not to cause indigestion or dysphagia.
In addition, when eating Yuanxiao, be careful that "scalding your mouth" will cause unnecessary harm. Patients with peptic ulcer, including gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, had better not eat too sweet food, so as not to cause the increase of gastric acid secretion and aggravate the stimulation to the ulcer surface. Treatise on Febrile Diseases specifically enjoins that people should "avoid being cold and sticky" when they are recovering from a serious illness, or when their condition is just right, so patients should not eat more Yuanxiao.
Prevention and health care of Lantern Festival
The lively Lantern Festival has arrived. Besides eating Yuanxiao, many folk activities add a little joy and peace to this grand festival. Experts remind you that many folk activities of the Lantern Festival have health care functions. Interested parties may wish to pay attention to it and experience it for themselves.
1, solve the riddle on the lantern: exercise the cervical vertebra and strengthen the brain.
Now every Lantern Festival, everywhere in playing riddles, I hope this year is festive and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication.
Generally speaking, lanterns are hung relatively high, which is both beautiful and relatively safe. Therefore, many readers and friends almost look up when enjoying the lights. For people who often work at their desks, the process of enjoying the lamp is a good process of moving the cervical vertebrae. As your neck actively raises its head from left to right, your cervical spine will naturally get effective relaxation and exercise. If it is accompanied by riddles on lanterns, it can increase the health care effect of strengthening the brain and improving intelligence.
2, walking all diseases: relax muscles, refreshing and healthy.
Folk reading is also called walking, scattering, roasting and walking on the bridge, which is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. On the Lantern Festival night, women meet and go out together. When they see the bridge, they will cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life. Walking away from all diseases has been a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of which were carried out in the fifteenth, but most of them were carried out in the sixteenth. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes went out of their homes in droves, crossed the bridge for danger, went into the city, and knelt down to beg for their children until midnight.
"Walking away from all diseases" is a simple and economical fitness method. Cao Tingdong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Ancient Heng Yan": "Sitting for a long time makes the collaterals stagnate, walking relaxes the muscles and strengthens the body, and exercising leisurely is full of energy and strength." Regardless of the age, "taking all diseases" is a cheap prescription worth popularizing. When away from all diseases, the upper and lower limbs should be coordinated, with deep breathing and even breathing. The venue should be a safe place with good air and broad vision, such as playground and park. Shoes should be comfortable, soft and elastic, so as not to hurt your feet when you walk quickly for a long time. Be careful not to take too big a step: taking too big a step will cause leg and hip muscles to ache and cause unnecessary injuries.
3. Row a dry boat: relieve stress and dredge meridians.
Folk-custom guide roller-skating boats often perform in rural farmers' homes. During the Lunar New Year, it is held from the first day of the first lunar month to the second day of the second lunar month (Dragon Head Festival). This activity is to pray for good weather and good luck in the coming year.
This kind of exercise can exercise the muscle strength and endurance of human back very accurately, and can effectively improve the physiological activity of back muscles and connective tissue covering muscles, which makes people feel "relieved". It is not realistic for most people to take part in outdoor boating. You can do some simple boating with your bare hands, but you need to pay attention to the speed from slow to fast in the first 5 minutes of each exercise to ensure full back movement without injury. The intensity of each row should be arranged in the order of small, medium, large and small.