Tomorrow is the third day of the third lunar month. Many places in the countryside have the custom of eating local vegetables and boiling eggs. Usually boil three eggs. Maybe many people still don't know why. Next, Bian Xiao will tell you about it.
1. Reasons for eating ground vegetables and boiled eggs on March 3rd:
1, shepherd's purse shepherd's purse, also known as native vegetables, is an edible wild vegetable with high nutritional value and medicinal value. In Jiangxi and other places in China, there is an old saying that "shepherd's purse is a panacea". It is said that on the third day of the third lunar month, boiled eggs with shepherd's purse can ensure that you are healthy and painless for a year.
Although the old saying is exaggerated, the nutritional value of shepherd's purse is also an indisputable fact.
Shepherd's purse is generally used to boil eggs. Old people stick to the folk saying all their lives. After eating it, they can ward off evil spirits, prevent messy Machamp from approaching, and prevent children from having headaches and brain fever. Adults can keep fit and keep their ears open.
Here are two common ways to cook eggs with shepherd's purse flowers.
What are the benefits of eating ground food in February and March?
1, shepherd's purse picked in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties.
Shepherd's purse is found all year round in the south.
If you are cooking, you can pick it whenever you want.
However, if used as medicine, the shepherd's purse picked in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties.
Herb picking is the aura of heaven and earth, so no matter what kind of medicinal materials, we should pay attention to the picking time.
If you don't pick it at the right time, the efficacy will be greatly reduced.
Shepherd's purse in early March, the first batch of tender seedlings sent out in early spring just matured and stored the energy of the whole winter, while the weather in early spring was still cold and grew slowly, so it had the highest medicinal value.
The things that come out from behind grow fast, and the medicinal value will decrease.
2. Eat shepherd's purse on March 3rd to prevent spring epidemic.
Shepherd's shepherd's purse is used as medicine, and its biggest function is to dispel the old cold, and its medicinal properties are very peaceful.
Eating shepherd's purse on March 3 is to drive away the cold accumulated in winter.
It is well said in Huangdi Neijing: "typhoid fever in winter will cause illness in spring."
"It means that it is frozen in winter. If it is not resolved in time, the cold will go deep into the human body and lurk down.
In spring, the yang rises, and these latent cold attacks, extremely cold and heat, will cause flu and fever.
This is also the reason why spring is particularly prone to various epidemics.
Therefore, in order to prevent cold and heat stagnation in summer, shepherd's purse should be used in winter to prevent "epidemic febrile diseases" in spring, instead of using hot and hot drugs.
Shepherd's purse is flat.
It is unique in that it can not only dispel the old cold, but also dispel the blood heat, so that the latent cold will not turn into internal fire and maintain the balance between cold and heat in human body.
Third, the practice of cooking eggs with local dishes.
Practice 1: Wash the shepherd's purse flower, cut it into small pieces, put it in the pot, put some water to boil, rest for a while and simmer for a while, release the juice as much as possible, then take out the shepherd's purse flower, shell the egg, put some salt and sesame oil in the pot, and then cook for a while, and the shepherd's purse flower and egg will be ready.
Method 2: First soak the shepherd's purse flower in light salt water for a period of time, because there are pesticides on the shepherd's purse flower, clean it, and then gently wipe the grass eggs with scouring pad. First put the shepherd's purse flower in the bottom of the pot, add water to the eggs, add a little salt to boil the eggs, and after the water boils for 3 minutes, take out the eggs and put them in clear water, and then gently break them.
Well, that's all that Bian Xiao wants to share with you today. The custom of cooking eggs with local dishes on March 3 is actually related to its high nutritional value and the significance of exorcism, and eating local dishes on March 3 has many benefits. Bian Xiao above also shared with you some ways to make eggs with local dishes. Which method do you usually use?