What folk activities are there in Grain Rain?
Appreciate peony flowers
Every year in Grain Rain, peony flowers are in full bloom. In this season, we can enjoy the most beautiful moment of peony flowers. Therefore, appreciating peony flowers in Grain Rain has become a very traditional custom. Although we don't pay much attention to the solar terms in Grain Rain now, the custom of enjoying peony flowers has been handed down, especially in Shandong, Henan and Sichuan. In these places where peony flowers are in full bloom, there are still a large number of tourists coming in to enjoy peony flowers in Grain Rain every year.
Take Grain Rain for example.
The custom of going to Grain Rain is not popular now, but it was a very traditional custom in ancient times. Every year on Grain Rain Day, some women will take to the streets and walk on the road. In ancient times, most women rarely appeared in public places. Maybe they would go out for a walk on several important festivals every year, such as Shangyuan Festival or Grain Rain, and feel the beauty of spring. Therefore, every solar term in Grain Rain in the past, women,
Sacrifice to the sea
In ancient times, the Grain Rain season was a period when spring water heated, and most fish swam to the shallows. At this time, fishermen will begin to prepare for fishing in the sea after a while. Therefore, offering sacrifices to the sea in Grain Rain is also the custom of many fishermen. On this day, in order to be able to go to sea safely and return home with a full load next year, they will hold a sea sacrifice and pray for the blessing of the gods in the sea. This custom may not be common in inland areas, but
Eat Toona sinensis
Toona sinensis is a very delicious plant. Every year before and after arriving in Grain Rain, coriander is lush and growing well, so many people will eat Toona sinensis at this time. Toona sinensis is a kind of food that is eaten only once a year, so at this time of the year, people will fry several plates of Toona sinensis at home more or less. At this time, Toona sinensis is not only fresh, but also nutritious and has many functions, which can also improve human immunity. There are many customs about Grain Rain, and we may not be able to list them one by one, because Grain Rain customs in some places are isolated, and we have never seen such customs in other places. For example, in Miao areas, climbing festivals may be held in Grain Rain.
Although we may not be able to follow the ancient traditional customs one by one, we can attach importance to the traditional solar term of Grain Rain as much as our traditional culture. Only when we attach importance to it can these important traditional cultures be passed down.
Grain Rain's Health Strategy
Diet:
Eat less hot and dry things, and choose foods with low fat, high vitamins and high minerals, such as fresh vegetables, including shepherd's purse, spinach, Malantou, Toona sinensis and dandelion.
Eat more cold food, such as cucumber, cold melon, mangosteen, purslane, celery, radish, mung bean, towel gourd and so on. Drink less warm black tea and more herbal tea such as green tea and chrysanthemum tea;
Drink a glass of water in the morning.
It can not only replenish the water lost by body metabolism, clean the empty stomach, but also effectively prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It is advisable to drink 250 ml of water.
Beware of pollen allergy
People with allergic constitution should prevent pollinosis, allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma. Pay special attention to avoid contact with allergens. If you have an allergic reaction, go to the hospital in time.
Pay attention to moisture
After Grain Rain, rainfall increased everywhere, and the humidity in the air gradually increased. At this time, health care should adapt to the changes of the natural environment, and through the adjustment of the human body itself, the internal environment should adapt to the changes of the external environment, thus maintaining the normal functions of various organs of the human body.
At this time, although the temperature began to warm up, it was still cold in the morning and evening. Those who leave early and return late should pay attention to increasing or decreasing their clothes to avoid catching a cold. At the same time, we should pay attention to going to bed early and getting up early, and don't sweat too much to regulate the dirty air.
Grain Rain Sanhou
Ping began to live: On the day of Grain Rain, "Ping began to live" and met by chance. Ping, an aquatic plant, is flat with the water phase, so it is called "Ping"; Drifting with the wind is also called "drifting".
Singing pigeons and brushing their feathers: On the fifth day of Grain Rain, "singing pigeons and brushing their feathers". Pigeons are eagles and cuckoos. There is a poem by Liu Bowen in the Ming Dynasty: "The sound of pigeons is corresponding, and the world is rejuvenated." Turnips are weeds. But "wings are blowing at the end of spring valley", and pigeon singing indicates that spring is coming to an end. At this time, the field echoed with its earnest call of "planting grain for every family".
Dai Sheng's mulberry planting: Five days later, "Dai Sheng's mulberry planting". "Dai Sheng" has long hair on his head, also known as a cockscomb bird. When it falls on the mulberry tree, the silkworm will be born.
Grain Rain healthy recipes
Rabbit liver and egg soup
Ingredients: rabbit liver 1-2, egg 1-2, salt and other condiments.
Practice: Slice rabbit liver and marinate it with raw powder, salt, ginger and soy sauce. Boil the water in the pot, add the salted rabbit liver, then beat the eggs evenly, cook for a few minutes, and add the right amount of seasoning to serve.
Efficacy: nourishing liver, improving eyesight, clearing away liver heat and relieving pain, and is suitable for night blindness and liver heat with red eyes and pain.
Rabbit liver is the rabbit liver, which is sweet, bitter, salty and cold in nature and belongs to the liver meridian. Its main components are protein, fat, vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Rabbit liver can nourish liver, clear liver and improve eyesight, which is most suitable for people with swollen eyes and red eyes caused by liver heat.
Fish bladder turtle soup
Ingredients: 20 g of swim bladder, 0/00 g of anchovy/kloc, salt and other condiments.
Practice: cut the nail fish into pieces, cook the soup with the fish bladder, add seasoning, and eat the nail fish after it is cooked.
Efficacy: tonify kidney to stop nocturnal enuresis, enuresis and chronic nephritis caused by kidney deficiency.
Tortoise, also known as tortoise, is sweet, sour and flat in nature, and belongs to lung, liver and kidney meridians. Turtle meat governs the kidney meridian, and turtle meat can be eaten often for any disease with deficiency of kidney qi or kidney yin. The swim bladder nourishes kidney yin, and the two complement each other.
Taboo: Carassius auratus should not be eaten with amaranth and pork.
Braised chicken eggs with Lycium barbarum
Materials: Lycium barbarum 15g, egg 1-2.
Practice: First, beat the eggs into a bowl and stir them evenly. Add Lycium barbarum, add a little seasoning and stew them in water before use.
Efficacy: tonify liver and kidney, improve eyesight, and is suitable for patients with soreness of waist and knees, impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, blurred vision, dizziness, yin deficiency and blood deficiency.
Taboo: People with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should eat less.