Excuse me, where is the Xinghua Village that the shepherd boy refers to in the restaurant?

-Excerpted from the Qingming Festival by Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty.

In a few days, it will be the fifth solar term-Qingming, which is the only day in the 24 solar terms that is both a solar term and a festival.

Qingming means that the sky is crisp and the land is refreshing. The time point is from April 4 to 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

At this time, the temperature rises, the fog in the south is less, the sandstorm in the north disappears, and the air permeability is good. The average daily temperature in most parts of China has risen to above 12, and the climate is warm, peach blossoms are in full bloom, willows are green, and all parts of the motherland are full of vitality.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important sacrificial festival. Through ancestor worship and grave-sweeping activities, we can remember our ancestors, mourn and pray for their protection. Therefore, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day full of sadness and hope.

As far as TCM health care is concerned, Qingming is a particularly important solar term. Huangdi Neijing wrote: "Cold produces turbidity, while hot air produces clarity." After winter and March, spring is cold. At this time, apricot blossom, peach blossom and plum blossom are in full bloom. This time is especially suitable for outing.

Therefore, it is necessary to conform to the solar terms, keep healthy according to the seasons, and go to outdoor sports more, such as walking in the forest and breathing fresh air, which can clear the lungs and strengthen the spleen and enhance the cardiopulmonary function; Climbing the peak and crossing the ridge can relax the tendons and prevent joint aging; Fast walking can promote blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis; Overlooking can broaden your horizons and delay vision degradation; By consuming human body heat, it can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, improve digestive function and stimulate appetite. It is worth noting that friends in places where the epidemic is repeated now should try not to gather.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a time when many chronic diseases are easy to recur, such as arthritis, asthma, hypertension and coronary heart disease. Therefore, patients with chronic diseases should avoid eating "hair"

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the so-called "hair products" refer to products that dispel wind and produce phlegm, send poison to help fire, and eliminate evil spirits, such as marine fish, shrimps and crabs, mutton, roosters, bamboo shoots and bamboo shoots.

This period is a period of high incidence of hypertension and respiratory diseases. Therefore, during the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, we should pay attention to the maintenance of liver and lung, and eat more food to protect liver and nourish lung.

Lotus root flavor: sweet and cold.

Efficacy: 1. Clearing heat and promoting fluid production are used for fever and thirst;

2. Cooling blood and removing blood stasis are used for bleeding syndromes caused by blood stasis, such as hematemesis, epistaxis and hematemesis;

3. Strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea is used for chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic dysentery or loss of appetite after illness; 2. Cooling blood and removing blood stasis

Li Shizhen said: Therefore, those in charge are all diseases of heart, spleen and blood, which is slightly different from the merits of Lotus. "Calling lotus root" Linggen "is Li Shizhen's evaluation of lotus root, which means that lotus root has a good medicinal effect.

Lotus root is especially suitable for patients with high fever, vomiting blood, hypertension, liver disease, loss of appetite, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition.

Lotus root has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can be used to treat blood stasis, especially suitable for women who eat lotus root. There is a folk saying that "women eat lotus roots for three days, men eat ginger for three days" and "women are forbidden from cold after childbirth, but they don't avoid lotus roots"

This is because women have physiological characteristics of menstruation, and eating lotus root with blood circulation function is beneficial to eliminate blood stasis; However, there may be congestion in the postpartum uterine cavity, which can be removed by activating blood of lotus root, and Yunnv can't help it.

In terms of eating, fresh lotus roots stop bleeding and cooked lotus roots replenish blood. Because raw lotus root tastes sweet and cold, it has the effect of clearing away heat and removing annoyance; Squeezing fresh lotus roots into juice can quench thirst and relieve boredom. Skillfully use spleen to stimulate appetite, nourish blood and promote granulation, and stop diarrhea; After the lotus root is cooked, its nature changes from cool to warm, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach and is also used for blood deficiency 3.

Dietotherapy method:

Lotus root cake

Raw materials: fresh lotus root 400g, lean pork 1 50g, egg1piece, white oil 75g, dry flour, onion, Jiang Mo and yellow wine.

Practice: fresh lotus root is washed, peeled and steamed, and half-centimeter-thick oval slices are cut with an oblique knife; Chop pork into stuffing, add wine, onion and Jiang Mo and mix well; Open the eggs and add the dry flour, water and batter; Then spread the meat evenly between two lotus root slices to make several lotus root cakes. Slide the pan, put the oil to boil, the oil temperature is 40%, the lotus root cake is evenly dipped in batter, and the oil pan is fried on both sides until it is old and yellow.

Efficacy: It has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, nourishing blood and stopping diarrhea.

Every year, when the willow branches have "two or three new leaves", it is a good time to eat willow buds. Willow buds are not only Chinese herbal medicines, but also can be eaten in many ways.

Willow buds are cold, slightly bitter and non-toxic. Has the effects of clearing away heat, penetrating rash, detoxicating and diuresis.

Suitable for measles, upper respiratory tract infection, etc. For example: tonsillitis or pharyngitis and sore throat, the pain is more obvious when swallowed. Tonsillar enlargement or bronchitis and even pneumonia have cough and expectoration.

dietotherapy

Cold willow bud

Ingredients: willow bud100g, salt 3g, vinegar 2g, sesame oil 5g, garlic 2g, cold boiled water10g.

Exercise:

1, wash the willow buds, remove the old leaves, put the pot in cold water and put 1 g salt.

2. Cook until the willow buds are half cooked

3. Take it out and wash it in clean water.

4. Boil the water in the pot, add the willow buds, put them in and scald them, and come out immediately.

5. Throw it in cold water

6. Add salt, vinegar and garlic to the willow buds.

7. Mix well and eat.

You can drink green tea during the Qingming period to prevent spring sleep. Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in Ming Dynasty, highly praised tea health preservation in Qingming period, especially "tea before Ming Dynasty".

"Tea before tomorrow" refers to the new tea picked and processed before Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, which has the functions of nourishing the liver, clearing the brain, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst.

As the saying goes, "I am clear in spring" and drinking "tea before tomorrow" can refresh my mind. For example, Li Shizhen said, "Tea is bitter and cold, which makes people refreshed and awake. This tea is also useful." Suitable teas are Chinese fir, Tieguanyin, Longjing and scented tea.

The above three foods are cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency should eat as little as possible.