Every year 1 month 5 is a slight cold solar term. There is a folk proverb: slight cold and great cold make ice hockey. Slight cold indicates the degree of cold. Literally, the great cold is more terrible than the slight cold, but in meteorological records, the slight cold is colder than the great cold, which can be said to be the coldest of the 24 solar terms in the whole year. There is often a saying of "Sanjiu cold", and this "Sanjiu" is just within the slight cold solar terms. It is called slight cold instead of great cold because solar terms originated in the Yellow River basin. The twenty-four solar terms say: "The cold at the beginning of the month is still small ... but it is big in half a month." According to the situation at that time, it only lasted until today. It is said that in the early years, every farmer in the Yellow River valley used the "Cold Map of 1999" to avoid the cold, and now all kinds of medicinal hot pots have become delicious dishes for the people of the whole country to dispel the cold and strengthen the heat. Because of this, many people ignore the problem of reasonable tonic, especially young people, rely on physical strength, overeating, hunger and cold, and eventually lead to endless future troubles. You should know about Han Xiao.

Minor Cold

Slight cold * * * Yuan Zhen * * *

Han Xiaolu, Huan birds build new nests.

Picking up food to find a winding path, holding purple around the treetops.

The frost eagle is near the north head, and the pheasant is hidden in the bushes.

Not strange but strict, spring and summer are in the first month.

Slight cold, the 23rd solar term among the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, is also the fifth solar term in winter, marking the official start of winter. When the sun reaches the longitude of 285 * * * slight cold * *, it marks the arrival of the coldest day of the year in China.

Slight cold is around March 9th, as the saying goes, "Cold is in March 9th", and its cold degree can be imagined, which can be proved by popular meteorological proverbs all over the country. For example, in northern China, there is a saying that "slight cold and severe cold, dripping into ice", and in southern China, there is a saying that "slight cold and severe cold, dripping into ice".

In daily life, besides keeping warm, people are busy writing Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles, going to the market to buy New Year pictures, colored lights, firecrackers, incense and so on, and preparing for the Spring Festival one by one.

In terms of diet, mutton hot pot, sugar-fried chestnuts and baked sweet potatoes have become the fashion of Xiaohan. As the saying goes, "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year", which is the practice of eating mutton to regulate the body in winter. In ancient times, Rugao people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and people can only find some traces in their lives.

Xiao Han, old Nanjing usually cooks and eats.

In Guangzhou tradition, Han Xiao eats glutinous rice in the morning.

Although the slight cold season is the best period for "tonic"

But tonic is not just eating a lot of supplements.

It must be targeted.

Yi Meier recommended three recipes for treating mild colds today.

Yam mutton soup * * * has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, warming the middle and warming the lower * * *

Ingredients: 500g of mutton, 50g of yam, 30g of onion,15g of ginger, 6g of pepper, 20g of yellow rice wine, 3g of refined salt and proper amount of monosodium glutamate.

Practice: remove the fascia from the mutton, wash it, cut it several times, then blanch it with boiling water to remove blood. Wash the onion and ginger, cut the onion into sections and break the ginger. Wash the yam, put the mutton and yam into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, first boil it with high fire, skim off the floating foam, add the onion, ginger, pepper and yellow wine, then stew it with low fire until the mutton is crisp and rotten, and then take it out and let it cool. Slice the mutton, put it in a bowl, then remove the onion and ginger from the original soup, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate, stir well, and put it in a mutton bowl with yam.

Recommended by the food buyer:

Xinxiu grocery store

Address: No.3 Street, Agricultural Products Market, Zone 5, Chengdu International Trade City 1030 1

Tel: 159-2877-8072

Main products: nourishing stew series

Business hours: Monday to Sunday 8:00- 17:00.

Polygala jujube porridge * * * has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and calming the nerves * * *

Materials: polygala tenuifolia10g, Ziziphus jujuba seed10g, and japonica rice 50g.

Practice: Wash polygala tenuifolia, jujube kernels and japonica rice. Put the japonica rice into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil with high fire, then add the polygala tenuifolia and jujube kernels, and cook it with low fire until the rice porridge is thick.

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Zhixin agriculture products business

Store address: No.5-10294, Zone 5, Chengdu International Trade City

Tel:130-9631-1738

Main products: jujube series

Business hours: Monday to Sunday 8:00- 17:00.

Stewed quail with Pseudostellaria heterophylla has the efficacy of nourishing five internal organs and benefiting middle qi.

Ingredients: quail meat 250g, lean pork100g, codonopsis pilosula15g, yam 30g, longan meat10g, medlar15g, Euryale ferox10g.

Practice: Wash quail meat and lean pork, cut into pieces, wash Dangshen, Yam, Longan, Lycium barbarum and Euryale ferox, put them together in a casserole, boil them with strong fire, then stew them with low fire for 1.5 hours, and add refined salt.

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Runyuan dried fruits business

Address: No.5-10987, 10988, Agricultural Products Market, Zone 5, Chengdu International Trade City.

Tel: 133-78 10-3592

Main products: dried longan/dried longan/dried litchi.

Business hours: Monday to Sunday 8:00- 17:00.

Health products

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, pointed out: "Food is the foundation of peace of mind ... those who don't know how to eat correctly are not enough to survive ... so food can exorcise evil spirits and strengthen viscera", which shows the role of diet in the human body. Although the light snow solar term has been cold for several days, it is understandable that people make up for it, but it is essential to make up for it. We should understand the meaning of dietary taboos according to the principle of "different from person to person". The dietary instructions of the Yuan Dynasty emphasized: "Diet is for health, but I don't know whether the physical properties are suitable for each other. Even if they are mixed together, it will lead to internal discord and cause great disaster. " So I remind you not to be hurt by the "five flavors" when taking supplements. Young people should take supplements selectively according to their own conditions.

Speaking of tonic, there has been a saying since ancient times that "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year". After nearly a year's consumption in spring, summer and autumn, the yin and yang qi and blood of the zang-fu organs will decline. Reasonable tonic can replenish qi, blood and body fluid in time, resist the invasion of cold, and make young people suffer less from diseases in the future, thus achieving the goal of getting twice the result with half the effort. Tonifying in winter, combining food tonic with medicine tonic, and warming tonic is appropriate.

Commonly used tonics include Ginseng, Astragalus, Colla Corii Asini, Cordyceps sinensis, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Lycium barbarum and Angelica sinensis. Dietary supplement should choose mutton, pork, chicken, duck, Spanish mackerel, sea shrimp and other foods according to the nature of food, such as walnut kernel, jujube, longan, sesame, yam, lotus seed, lily and chestnut. Herbal dietary supplements are optional:

Yam mutton soup

[Ingredients] 500g mutton, 150g yam, ginger, onion, pepper, Shaoxing wine and salt.

[Practice] Wash and cut the mutton into pieces, put it in a boiling water pot and blanch the blood; Wash ginger and onion and pat evenly with a knife for later use; Soak the yam slices in clear water and put them into the pot together with mutton, add a proper amount of clear water and put other ingredients into the pot. After the fire boils, simmer it until it is cooked.

[Efficacy] Tonifying the spleen and stomach and benefiting the lungs and kidneys.

Stir-fried three-silk vegetables

[Ingredients] Dried Lentinus edodes 1.5, 2 green peppers, carrot 1, vegetable oil, sugar, yellow wine, monosodium glutamate, salt, water starch and fresh soup sesame oil.

[Practice] Wash mushrooms with water, squeeze out water, cut into thin strips, wash carrots and green peppers and shred them. Heat the oil in the pot, stir-fry the three shreds in the pot, add yellow wine and sugar, stir-fry, then add fresh soup and salt, add monosodium glutamate after the soup is boiled, thicken it with starch, pour sesame oil on it, and serve.

[Efficacy] Spleen, digestion and dryness.

Towel gourd and tomato porridge

[Ingredients] 500g of loofah, 3 tomatoes, 0/00g of japonica rice/kloc, minced onion and ginger, salt and monosodium glutamate.

[Practice] Wash and peel the loofah, cut the tomatoes into small pieces, wash and cut into small pieces for later use. Wash the japonica rice, put it into the pot, pour some water and bring it to a boil. Cook it gently until it is medium-cooked. Add loofah, minced onion and ginger and salt and cook until the porridge is cooked. Add tomatoes and monosodium glutamate to stew.

【 Efficacy 】 Clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, promoting fluid production and relieving annoyance.