Tomb-Sweeping Day traditional food.
Artemisia cake
Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to eat green food. There is a custom of steaming Artemisia cake in rural areas. Artemisia cake is similar to the green ball in Jiangnan. The production method is: "Take Artemisia bud and glutinous rice, make Artemisia juice and rice flour into a whole, take meat, vegetables, red bean paste and jujube paste as stuffing, put them into various fancy wooden molds, and steam them in the bottom cage of new reed leaves." The mugwort cake is green in color and has a plant fragrance. It is one of the foods for ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is also used to give gifts or entertain relatives and friends. In addition, Huaiyang also has the custom of eating tea eggs on Qingming Day.
Youth league; Sweet green rice ball
During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done. Green glutinous rice balls, green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. Green jiaozi is also a necessary food for people to sacrifice their ancestors in Jiangnan area. Because of this, green jiaozi is particularly important in the folk food customs in the south of the Yangtze River.
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Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. The prickly heat that is popular in Han areas is different from the north and the south: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour. In ethnic minority areas, there are many kinds of prickly heat with different flavors, especially the prickly heat of * * er, Dongxiang, Naxi and Ningxia Hui nationalities.
Qingming snail
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best time to eat snails. Because at this time, the snails have not yet propagated, and they are the most plump and plump, so there is a saying that "the snails in Qingming are worth a goose". Snails can be eaten in many ways. They can be fried with onion, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook, pick snail meat, mix, drink, rot and simmer. If you eat properly, it can really be called "a snail is not worth a thousand things, and wine is not as good as food."
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In addition, both the north and the south of China have the custom of eating nutritious food such as eggs, cakes, sandwich cakes, Qingming zongzi, steamed cakes, Qingming cakes and dry porridge in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day health strategy
First, 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".
Second, 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.
Third, feel comfortable and be quiet when moving.
At the same time, this solar term is prone to high blood pressure. To maintain a good mood, choose soft and quiet exercise methods such as Tai Ji Chuan. Avoid participating in competitive activities and avoiding emotional excitement; Avoid doing weight-bearing activities, so as not to hold your breath and cause blood pressure to rise.
Fourth, it is not advisable to change clothes too early.
As the saying goes, "Dressing in disorder in February" refers to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Because the climate is changeable and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, you should prepare a coat that you can put on and take off at will. Wear a trench coat when you go out to work in the morning, and keep warm. When you feel hot at noon, you can take it off and put it on when you get home from work at night, which can effectively prevent colds. The so-called "spring cover" also means this. It's not until Tomb-Sweeping Day that spring clothes can be changed in mid-April. Of course, the process of "spring covering" also varies from person to person, and clothes should be increased or decreased according to their physical fitness. Generally speaking, according to climate change, clothes should be increased or decreased at any time, pay attention to cold and warmth, help the human body to grow hair and resist the invasion of foreign evils, which is helpful to health.
5. Don't be too sad.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important sacrificial festival. Through ancestor worship and grave-sweeping activities, we can remember our ancestors and express our grief. Seeing the tombstones of their loved ones, many people will inevitably think of something and feel extremely sad. This time, everyone will feel this way. However, excessive sadness has a serious impact on health, especially patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease should control their emotions to prevent the recurrence of old diseases. In addition, spring is a period of high incidence of various mental diseases, and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day can easily make people feel depressed and depressed, and induce mental diseases. Therefore, people should not be too sad before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, but should maintain a stable mood and a comfortable mood.
Six, to prevent the recurrence of hypertension
Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people's mood fluctuated greatly, especially in the middle-aged and elderly people with hypertension. Because I miss my loved ones too much, I can't sleep well, which easily leads to an increase in blood pressure. Therefore, patients with hypertension should reduce and eliminate abnormal emotional reactions as soon as possible to maintain emotional stability. You can choose the soft and quiet Tai Ji Chuan movement to divert your thoughts. You should also avoid weight-bearing activities to avoid holding your breath and raising your blood pressure.
Seven, health care focuses on nourishing the liver.
The traditional health preserving theory holds that "spring corresponds to liver", which means that the climate characteristics of spring are closely related to human liver. Therefore, the method of keeping in good health in spring should focus on nourishing the liver. If the liver function is normal, people's qi will be smooth, qi and blood will be harmonious, and the functions of various zang-fu organs will remain normal. Therefore, Qingming health care focuses on nourishing the liver. Nursing liver can be divided into "nourishing liver" and "clearing liver". There are many specific methods, such as nourishing liver with liver, nourishing liver with taste, nourishing liver with blood, nourishing liver with vegetables and so on.
Eight, dietary supplements.
Qingming, cold air and warm air alternate, getting warmer every day, so the weather is sunny for a while, rainy for a while, and the human body often becomes quadriplegic. In the conditioning of soup, besides diuresis and dampness, it also needs proper tonic, so nourishing blood and relaxing tendons is the most important. It is suggested that the white dove (20 g of mulberry, 30 g of coix seed and white dove) be stewed with mulberry and coix seed. Diet should be light, regular and quantitative, salt restriction, potassium supplement, mainly tonic, eat more fruits and vegetables to prevent getting angry. You can eat more foods that soften the liver and moisten the lungs, such as shepherd's purse benefiting the liver and harmonizing the middle; Spinach benefits five internal organs and blood vessels; Yam strengthens the spleen and benefits the lungs.
Qingming phenology
Qingming is a solar term representing phenology, which means sunny weather and lush vegetation. At this time, the temperature is getting warmer, the rainfall is increasing, the spring is bright, the willows are drooping, and the green grass is like seedlings. There is a vibrant scene everywhere in urban and rural areas. But Qingming, as a solar term with a unified time sequence and festivals, came later.
Solar terms are signs of phenological changes and seasonal order, and traditional festivals contain certain customs and commemorative cultural matters. Both of them are independent, but they are also related.
Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi comes from the theory of "Eight Winds" in March of the lunar calendar every year. Eight winds were the earliest method to distinguish seasons and climatic winds in ancient China. China has been based on agriculture since ancient times. Tomb-Sweeping Day has distinct characteristics of agricultural culture, which itself reflects the law of life in agricultural society. In the long-term agricultural production, the ancients obtained relevant astronomical knowledge by constantly exploring the changing laws of climate in different seasons. At this time, after the severe winter, the climate is pleasant, which has become a good opportunity for people to carry out outdoor activities. It is also a good time to sow in spring, so Qingming is an important solar term in ancient agricultural production, which is closely related to agricultural production.
People mark the changes of seasons and climate in the form of festivals, which have produced many related activities and gradually evolved into holiday customs. Among them, the Qingming ancestor worship activity is a unique custom and habit that the Chinese nation has continued in the agricultural society.