1, cold food
Cold food festival is popular to eat cold food, that is, cold food. It used to be a no-smoking festival, but later it developed into a festival to commemorate meson push. Because smoking and lighting fires are forbidden, only cold food is allowed. Bean jelly, cold noodles, cold cakes, green balls, green fruits, lettuce mixed with salt and vinegar, and green rice are all common cold foods in the Cold Food Festival.
2. Wild vegetables
Eating wild vegetables in the cold food festival is also a relatively healthy practice, which is in line with the rise of yang in spring and supplements the rich vitamin C and minerals in wild vegetables; Everything grows in spring, which is the golden season for eating wild vegetables with spring buds. Besides, going out to collect wild vegetables on this day can also exercise and adjust the sadness of hurting and longing for spring.
Step 3: green vegetables
Cold food festival is a good day to clean up the stomach. At this time, it is also the time of spring. All kinds of vegetables will sprout new buds, fresh and tender, with high dietary fiber content and rich nutrition. During the Cold Food Festival, we should eat more green vegetables to clean up the stomach, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and lose weight.
4, cold porridge
Eating cold porridge during the Cold Food Festival is a dietary custom handed down from ancient times, because during the Cold Food Festival, people are not allowed to set off fireworks at home, and they need to prepare cold food such as cold porridge. Common cold porridge includes Huayang porridge, Plum Blossom porridge, Coix seed porridge and Peach Blossom porridge. Cold porridge is some flat porridge, which has the effect of relieving asthma and relieving cough.
Step 5 spread seeds
Sazi is a kind of fried pasta, which was called "cooler" in ancient times. It is a kind of food for the Cold Food Festival. It is a crisp and delicate food, resistant to storage and suitable for cold food. Food such as black sesame seeds can be added and sprinkled on it to increase flavor and color.
6. The custom of Cold Food Festival
Smoking and eating cold food are prohibited
The Cold Food Festival was also called "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Everyone is forbidden to make a fire and eat cold food.
Worship ancestors
The Cold Food Festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. One of the auspicious gifts recognized and advocated by the government. Later, it evolved into a royal mausoleum; Official sacrifices to Confucius Temple and sages; People go to sweep graves and so on. At that time, a family or clan went to the ancestral grave to sacrifice, add soil and hang paper money. Then spread swallows and snakes and rabbits on the top of the grave, roll them down, put them on with willow branches or needles, and put them in the high place in the house to show their virtue.
Cold food diet
Cold food includes cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste, green rice and porridge. Cold food offerings include pink swallow, snake rabbit, jujube cake, refined rye, god and so on. There are dozens of drinks, such as spring wine, fresh tea, clear spring and sweet water.
Cold food inserted willow
The symbol of the vitamin cold food festival was originally to miss Jie Zhi's pursuit of political clarity. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a record in the Chronicle of Jingchu that "every family broke willow during the cold food between Jianghuai and Suzhou", and it is still popular to wear mustard flowers and wheat leaves instead of willow branches in Anhui, Suzhou and other places.
Cold food swing
Swing was originally a female amusement in the ancient cold food festival. Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" in the Five Dynasties recorded that "the Tianbao Palace Mid-solstice Cold Food Festival actually erected a swing, which made the wives and concubines in the palace laugh and thought it was a feast. The emperor called it a semi-fairy play, so the scholars in the capital called it. " Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, wrote the poem "Cold Food Day Crossing the Dragon Gate", which is described as "the willow on the bridge hangs on a line and hangs more colorful ropes."
Cold-eating coarse balls
Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's "Literature General Examination" contained: "Cuju, Gai began in the Tang Dynasty. Plant two bamboos, several feet high, and wrap the net on the net to measure the ball for the door. The ball is divided into friends and friends, and the game is divided into corners. " History: Tang Dezong, Xian Zong, Mu Zong and Jing Zong all like to play cuju, and Yuan Gui, the state capital, wrote: "In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, Tang Dezong, the Cold Food Festival was held in February, and the Imperial Palace East Pavilion was used to watch Wu Dachen and Wu's children, and a banquet was held for the ministers to be slaughtered." In the Song Dynasty, there was "Taizu Cuju Map".
Poems sung in cold food
During the Cold Food Festival, literati or homesick relatives, or borrowing scenery, have feelings, feelings, inspirations, poems and chanters.
Spring jingchang
Picking wild vegetables during the cold food festival not only exercises the body, but also meets the needs of the human body, killing two birds with one stone. Finally, I want to talk about psychological adjustment in spring health preservation.