Dragon Boat Festival health food
1, red beans
When we make zongzi, we can put some red beans in it. Red beans are not only rich in protein and various nutrients, but also conducive to water dehumidification, blood pus discharge, swelling and detoxification. In summer, the climate is hot and there is much rain. Red beans can help the human body diuretic, clear away heat and toxic materials, and supplement mung beans, which is a good medicine in summer.
2. Pierce
Pears are rich in nutrition, which can protect the liver and help digestion. Patients with chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis can take it properly every day, which is helpful for liver recovery.
3. Jujube
When making zongzi, you will put 1-2 dates. Jujube is rich in vitamin C, which has the effect of nourishing five internal organs and qi and blood, and is a good choice for patients with liver disease.
4. salted duck eggs
Eating salted duck eggs is also the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Salted duck eggs are salty and slightly cold, which can nourish yin and clear lung, and help to relieve cough, sore throat, toothache and diarrhea. Salted duck eggs not only have medical functions, but also can effectively supplement the lack of salt and the consumption of nutrients in summer, and are also a good food supplement and accompaniment in summer. Although we usually warn friends with liver diseases to avoid pickled food as much as possible, salted duck eggs can be properly ingested, but 1 is enough, and don't ingest too much.
5. tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C and lycopene. Patients with abnormal liver function can choose tomatoes as their daily diet.
6. artificial intelligence
In many places, during the Dragon Boat Festival, rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed with mugwort. This custom is very good, because Artemisia argyi leaves contain a variety of volatile oils, which have an aromatic smell, can repel insects and sterilize, and have inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria or certain skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, mugwort was essential for getting rid of diseases and plagues during the Dragon Boat Festival.
7.garlic
Garlic also has the function of protecting the liver. Patients with abnormal liver function can be used for adjuvant therapy, but eating garlic raw should not be too much, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and harm the liver. Amaranth fried with garlic is the favorite vegetable of many families during the Dragon Boat Festival. Garlic has the reputation of "natural antibiotic", and amaranth is sweet and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and stopping dysentery. Garlic fried amaranth has complementary advantages and is a rare medicine and good dish for preventing and treating intestinal diseases such as dysentery in summer.
Little-known taboos of Dragon Boat Festival
1, festive activities are prohibited during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The most important content of Dragon Boat Festival is to offer sacrifices to ancestors. Sadness is inevitable when offering sacrifices, so this day is not suitable for saying blessings to others, and of course it is not suitable for holding and participating in festive activities such as opening, marriage and celebration. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, which is the "anniversary of Yang Gong's death". It is absolutely not allowed to handle major events such as opening, construction, marriage and signing contracts on this day.
Avoid swimming in the river on Dragon Boat Festival.
Because May is an "evil month" and the fifth day is an unlucky day, some places avoid swimming on this day, especially where people drown. Because the Dragon Boat Festival "drowning ghosts" is the most fierce, it is necessary to find a pair to "return the sun", so there is a custom of throwing zongzi into the river to let him share the pair.
3. Don't eat zongzi wrapped by your mother during the Dragon Boat Festival.
In ancient times, my daughter got married and lived in her husband's family for a long time, rarely seeing her parents. From the early Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, there was a custom of returning to her mother's house during the Dragon Boat Festival. However, in Shandong, it is said that the married daughter doesn't have to go back to her husband's family before the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, she can't spend the Dragon Boat Festival at her parents' home. Because there is a folk saying that "if you eat the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi from your parents' house, the whole family will die. "
4. Sexual intercourse is forbidden during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The ancients believed that May was the month of nine poisons, and the Dragon Boat Festival was the first of nine poisons. If the qi of heaven and earth is wrong, it will inevitably affect people's body and mind, so if you have sex in nine poisonous days, you must be infected with evil spirits. Therefore, it is forbidden to have sex on the Dragon Boat Festival in the ancient training, and it is stipulated that from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, women should stay at their parents' home and the husband and wife are separated. This day is designated as "Mothering Day".
5. Dragon Boat Festival air attack.
As I said before, the Dragon Boat Festival is a poisonous month. From the meteorological point of view of the lunar calendar, it is from summer to around, so it is also the most sunny day of the year. From the perspective of the five elements, any kind of five elements that are too prosperous or too weak will form evil spirits, which will threaten and harm the natural climate or personal health. Therefore, it is necessary to insert moxa, peach skills, calamus and other spirits on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival. Smoked atractylodes macrocephala, angelica dahurica, drank realgar wine and so on.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, children have many taboos.
Dragon Boat Festival is not only an unlucky day, but also very important for children's physical and mental health, so there are many taboos about children, such as the Dragon Boat Festival is not suitable for having children; Babies under one year old should be sent to grandma's house to hide from disasters during the Dragon Boat Festival. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, children eat two duck eggs and sprinkle realgar wine on them to drive away pests and protect their health. In the north, children have the custom of wearing sachets to ward off evil spirits. Moreover, the sachet worn by children should not be lost. It is said that if the child loses the sachet, there will be great disaster within one year. After the Dragon Boat Festival, children should throw sachets into the water to avoid fire.
The history of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival
The history of China for thousands of years is also the evolutionary history of Zongzi.
The first evolution was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when rice was packed in bamboo tubes and palm seed was wrapped in single leaves (leaves outside pods), reed leaves or palm leaves, forming a triangle or quadrilateral. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the customs said: "It is customary to wrap millet in leaves and cook it in pure ash juice, which will be ripe on May 5 and summer." We not only learned about the practice of Zongzi at that time, but also learned that Zongzi in the Eastern Han Dynasty was not just a traditional holiday food, and people often ate Zongzi in summer. Thus, Zongzi was just an ordinary food in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, Zongzi gradually became the traditional food of Dragon Boat Festival. During this period, eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival became very popular. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, dumplings were only made of millet or glutinous rice with dates and chestnuts, which were usually wrapped at home during the Dragon Boat Festival.
In the Tang Dynasty, Zongzi not only became a folk food, but also was cherished by the court. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "Flowers compete for four seasons, and nine dumplings compete for novelty." It seems that Tang feels good about eating zongzi, and his evaluation of zongzi is also very high. At the same time, it can also make us vaguely feel the grandeur of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Because of the small zongzi, it actually caused the elegance of the emperor's poems. Not only that, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will "make rice balls and corn into rice balls and put them in a golden plate", so that people can shoot with a small angle bow, and if they miss, they will not be able to eat them. Probably this song and dance game of eating zongzi triggered the pleasure of Tang Emperor. In Tang Dynasty, Yao He's poem "All the fishing songs ring and the wind blows the horn" shows that zongzi has become a popular food in the folk market. At this time, all kinds of nuts were added to the stuffing of zongzi, and a shop specializing in making and selling zongzi appeared in Chang 'an, the capital. "Geng's family has brown seeds and white jade is like jade" is the evaluation of Tang Dynasty poet Duan after eating Zongzi from Geng's shop.
In Song Dynasty, there were persimmon, ginkgo and red beans in brown seeds. Wrap pod leaves and potato leaves for external use and cook. In addition, there were "Qiaozongzi" in the recipe of Zongzi at that time, and "Ai Xiang Zongzi" made of rice soaked in mugwort leaves, which shows that the variety of Zongzi has gradually increased.
In the Ming Dynasty, jiaozi was wrapped in reed leaves, and jiaozi included bean paste, pork, peach kernel, walnut and honey. The emergence of jiaozi with minced meat has made a new breakthrough in the varieties of jiaozi.
In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, another kind of meat dumplings called "ham zongzi" appeared, which made the varieties of meat dumplings more and more abundant.