Food in Tomb-Sweeping Day
1. los
Snail meat is plump, delicate and delicious, and it is known as the "pearl in the plate". Rich in protein eggs, vitamins, essential amino acids and trace elements, it is a typical natural animal health food with high protein, low fat and high calcium. Snails bought in the market should be kept for three days. Drop a few drops of sesame oil or vegetable oil in the basin to let the snail discharge the muddy dirt 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, fry it and stew it thoroughly.
2. Shrimp
"Yellow croaker in March, shrimp in April, and bitter gourd stew in May." As for Qingming shrimp, there was a poem that said: "The east wind blows rain all night, and fish and shrimp grow in the new water of the river." Just the clear sight of spring rain and the mouth-watering growth of river fresh. Now, Qingming Shrimp is at the turn of the old and the new. There is plenty of rain, and the new shrimp has not "dispersed in spring". Fortunately, you can even see shrimp seeds in your stomach.
Step 3: mussels
It is said that, like snails, mussels around Qingming are the fattest. "Drink a bowl of light vegetable soup in spring, no prickly heat, no sores". The common practice in old Yangzhou is that mussels burn tofu and bacon burns mussels, so that eyebrows will fall off. It shows that mussels should be eaten in spring, especially before Qingming. Because leeches and microorganisms in Tomb-Sweeping Day's forewater do not move frequently, mussels at this time are the cleanest, the most plump, and especially crisp and delicious.
4. Spinach
Spinach is a seasonal vegetable in spring, which has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, soothing the liver and nourishing blood, and has a good auxiliary treatment effect on hypertension, dizziness, diabetes and anemia caused by liver yin deficiency in spring. Another study by Harvard University found that eating spinach 2-4 times a week for middle-aged and elderly people can reduce the risk of retinal degeneration. Anemia patients can take spinach100g to make soup. People with blurred vision can take 500g of fresh spinach and 50g of sheep liver, put it into the sheep liver after boiling, cook it a little, then add spinach, add appropriate amount of salt, sesame oil and monosodium glutamate, and eat it after cooking.
5. Malantou
Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, the special fragrance of Malantou is the most attractive. Many wild vegetables grow in spring, and the most tender is spring. For example, once Malantou has passed Qingming Festival, it will gradually get old and cannot be chewed, so it is most suitable for eating Malantou these days. Malantou is the easiest to make, just mix with dried tofu and sprinkle with sesame oil. Malantou is pungent and slightly cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Suitable for health preservation in spring, it can not only supplement vitamins, relieve spring drowsiness, but also be very effective for common sore throat in early spring.
6.bracken
Pteridium aquilinum, also known as auspicious dish and dragon claw dish. Whenever the ice and snow melt and spring returns to the earth, it is the golden season for picking ferns. Pteridium aquilinum tastes crisp, tender and smooth, and tastes fragrant. You can often cook, stir-fry, marinate noodles and make buns. There are many ways to eat. Pteridium aquilinum is rich in nutrition, which has the functions of refreshing, removing greasy and helping digestion. Therefore, people call bracken "wild vegetable" and "snow fruit mountain treasure". Fresh bracken has a heavy bitter taste. Before eating, you need to scald it with boiling water, and then soak it in cold water to remove the odor. Without this step, the entrance of bracken is bitter. Well-made fresh bracken tastes delicious and smooth, and with seasonings, it is a rare and excellent dining table. In addition, there is a popular way to eat fried shredded pork.
7. cereals
Everyone should eat cereal, such as oats, buckwheat, lentils, coix seed, peanuts, soybeans, coffee beans and sunflower seeds. These are seed plants. They are very nutritious. Especially for Qingming health, you can eat more grain soup, mix your favorite grains with soup at will, or cook porridge. Cereal food can nourish the liver, relieve annoyance, eliminate dampness, regulate the stomach, moisten the intestines, replenish deficiency and enhance resistance.
8.tremella fuciformis
Tremella is a tonic for civilians, but it can be compared with ginseng and bird's nest, and it is a beauty food for women. Tremella fuciformis is often used to make sweet soup, and it is a rare health-care medicine for promoting diuresis, nourishing blood and nourishing yin, strengthening brain and refreshing, beautifying and rejuvenating skin, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. And women with irregular menstruation and constipation can eat tremella soup.
9. Chinese yam
Yam is highly praised in Chinese medicine, because it can prevent cardiovascular diseases, keep blood vessel elasticity and avoid arteriosclerosis. At the same time, eating more yam can avoid fat deposition and reduce the causes of obesity. In addition, there is a substance called dopamine in yam, which can dilate blood vessels and promote blood circulation.
10. Leek
Leek is known as "intestine washing grass" and contains more crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and effectively prevent habitual constipation and intestinal cancer. During the Qingming Festival, spring vegetables are fragrant, and the human body has experienced the nourishment of a long winter. At this time, it is time to ingest some fresh and tender vegetables in the season, and at the same time let the stomach rest. You can also use its cellulose to accelerate the discharge of oil and toxins in the body and promote metabolism. It is an ideal diet food. In addition, leek is rich in cellulose, volatile essential oil, vitamins and other nutrients, and its bactericidal effect is obvious. Eating leeks in Tomb-Sweeping Day can not only help yang to grow hair, but also sterilize and diminish inflammation, stimulate appetite and reduce blood fat.
Precautions for Qingming diet
One: Pay attention to "the disease enters from the mouth"
The changeable weather is easy to catch a cold, leading to tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; At this time, respiratory infectious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, chickenpox, epidemic meningitis and so on. , is a frequent occurrence. Therefore, we should pay close attention to the weather changes, increase or decrease clothes, go to public places as little as possible, and pay special attention to "illness from the mouth".
Two: Don't eat "hair"
This solar term is also a time when many chronic diseases are easy to recur, such as arthritis, asthma and mental illness. Therefore, people with chronic diseases should avoid food that is easy to happen. The so-called "hair" refers to products that dispel wind and produce phlegm, send poison to help fire and help evil spirits, such as sea fish, shrimp, sea crab, pickles, bamboo shoots, mutton, cock and so on. And you can eat some cold food properly.
Suitable foods are japonica rice, sesame, peanut, adzuki bean, glutinous rice, quail, goose, mussel, snail, egg, leek, coriander, lettuce, yam, apple, orange, horseshoe, pear, peach and cherry. Healthy soup should be carrot and bamboo cane water, pork belly stewed with Chili, fish head stewed with Chuanxiong and Angelica dahurica, dog belly fish with leeks, pig's trotters with fresh Smilax glabra, eel with pickles, pork lean with catnip and so on.
Three: diet, low salt and more fruits and vegetables.
Eat regularly and quantitatively, and don't overeat. In spring, it is advisable to eat less acidic foods such as mutton, and appropriately "sweeten" that is, eat more sweets to keep healthy. But obese people should reduce sweets, limit calorie intake and eat more fruits and vegetables. For elderly patients with hypertension, special emphasis should be placed on low-salt diet, and potassium intake should be increased accordingly, such as eating more vegetables and fruits. These are also things that healthy people should pay attention to.
Four: Qingming health "before tomorrow's tea"
Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in Ming Dynasty, highly praised tea health preservation in Qingming period, especially "tea before Ming Dynasty". "Tomorrow tea" refers to the new tea picked and processed before Qingming every year, which has the effects of nourishing the liver and clearing the brain, resolving phlegm and eliminating polydipsia. As the saying goes, "I wake up easily in the early morning of spring", and drinking "Tomorrow Tea" can refresh my mind. For example, Li Shizhen said, "Tea is bitter and cold, which makes people feel refreshed and not sleepy." Suitable teas are Chinese fir, Tieguanyin, Longjing and scented tea. At this time, festivals are also prone to gastrointestinal discomfort. In recent years, people use Sanhua milk to soak Pu 'er tea to strengthen the stomach. People with stomach trouble might as well have a try.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's Historical Allusions
Qingming tree
This is a sunny day without rain, and it is warm and cold at first sight.
Zhao, who had been sleeping for many days, suddenly woke up in the morning, and her children and grandchildren were pleasantly surprised.
This is an isolated grave without a monument, and the grave soil is newly reclaimed.
Zhao, a clear tree, was supported and stood in front of the grave, kneeling behind her children and grandchildren. Burning paper in the grave kiln is roaring and dancing. It's like recalling the distant and familiar story that happened half a century ago.
A pregnant wife, newly married, sent her beloved husband out of Daba Mountain and sent him to the front line of anti-Japanese war. She hasn't heard from him for several years. Japan surrendered, and she happily took her son to find her long-lost relatives. However, what I found was a hand-sewn shirt full of bullet holes and a shiny medal. The mother and son made no demands on the troops and returned to their hometown with tears in their eyes. The mother always misses her husband, and the son buried a coffin with only two relics with lifelong regret that he had never seen his real father.
A lonely grave stands on an unnamed barren hill in Daba Mountain, lonely and desolate. Since the tomb was built, every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there will be more newly planted pines and cypresses beside the solitary grave on the barren hills. Year after year, never stop. Unconsciously, fifty years have passed. Bare mountains have long been covered with green trees, and solitary graves have always been covered with pine and cypress. The towering trees and newly planted saplings alternate with each other to form a forest belt with clear annual rings. The ups and downs of the mountains failed to cover up Zhao's bitterness, frustrations and youth complex.
"Zhao4 ge, here I am again, planting Qingming trees with our children and grandchildren. Time flies. It's not easy to see you once a year. I almost couldn't come today, but I will come sooner or later. I said you won't be lonely and forgotten. With these Qingming trees with you, you are not lonely. How time flies! In a blink of an eye, even our son became a grandfather. Zhao Ge, I've had enough in my life ... Stop it, I know you don't like to hear those sad things. Say something else! " Scott muttered to himself. The paper gradually burns out, and the paper ash rises gently with the wind.
On this sunny and rainless day, a lonely grave is surrounded by several newly planted pines and cypresses. One of them was a Qingming tree planted by an old lady in her eighties.
In the second year, during the Qingming Festival, it was rainy and rainy, and there was a new grave next to the Qingming tree.