What are the customs and activities in Grain Rain?
1, picking grain rain tea
There is a custom of picking tea in Grain Rain in the south, and Grain Rain tea is also called tea before rain. It is spring tea picked in Grain Rain season, also called spring catechu. The moderate temperature and abundant rainfall in spring, coupled with the recuperation of tea trees in winter for half a year, make the buds and leaves of spring shoots plump, green in color, soft in leaves, rich in vitamins and amino acids, and make the taste of spring tea fresh. It is said that Grain Rain tea on this day can clear fire, ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. So no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea and come back to soak in water.
Step 2 offer sacrifices to the sea
The custom of worshipping the sea. Grain Rain Festival is also known as the "strong festival" for fishermen to go fishing. In Grain Rain season, the sea gets warmer, and hundreds of fish go to the shallow sea, which is a good day to go fishing. As the saying goes, "Go online by Grain Rain." In order to go to sea safely and go home with full load, fishermen will hold a sea sacrifice in the Grain Rain on this day and pray for Poseidon's blessing. Therefore, the Grain Rain Festival is also called the "strong festival" for fishermen to go fishing. In the past, every village had a temple of the sea or mother. When it's time for sacrifice, fishermen carry their offerings to the front of the temple for sacrifice, while others carry them to the seaside, beating gongs and drums, setting off firecrackers and offering sacrifices to the sea. The scene is very grand.
3. Take Grain Rain for example.
There was a custom of "going to Grain Rain" in ancient times. On this day, young women in Grain Rain visited relatives in the village, and some people came back after walking in the wild. The implication is to integrate with nature and keep fit.
4. Eat spring
Before and after Grain Rain, Toona sinensis was mellow and refreshing with high nutritional value, so it was said that Toona sinensis was tender as silk before the rain. People say that picking and eating Toona sinensis in spring is "eating spring". Toona sinensis is generally divided into purple Toona sinensis buds and green Toona sinensis buds, especially purple Toona sinensis buds.
Step 5 enjoy peony
Grain Rain is an important time for peony flowers to bloom, so peony flowers are also called Grain Rain flowers and Fugui flowers. "Grain Rain saw the peony in three dynasties", and the peony appreciation in Grain Rain has lasted for thousands of years.
6. Prohibition of killing five poisons
After Grain Rain, the temperature rose, and pests and diseases entered a high breeding period. In order to reduce the harm of pests and diseases to crops and people, farmers put up grain rain stickers and prayed to drive away evil spirits. This custom is very popular in Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi. In the old days, a Japanese Grain Rain painting, Zhang Tianshi, was posted on the door in Linfen, Shanxi, named "Forbidden Scorpion". Shaanxi Fengxiang Scorpion Curse is woodcut, which shows that there is a great demand. It was printed with the words: "In Grain Rain, in mid-March, scorpions showed off their bravado. God chicken bites, poisonous insects turn into water ... "In the center of the picture, the rooster holds the insect with a big scorpion under his paw. This painting is printed with a spell. The saying that the rooster cures the scorpion has been circulating among the people for a long time. Scorpions are also forbidden in Shandong folk customs. Xiajin county annals in the sixth year of Qing Qianlong: "Grain Rain, cinnabar forbids scorpions." The folk custom of "banning scorpions" reflects people's feelings of expelling pests and longing for harvest and peace.
Grain Rain health food
1. Toona sinensis
Grain Rain is the season when Toona sinensis is on the market. At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis is tender as silk before the rain. Toona sinensis has the functions of improving immunity, invigorating stomach, regulating qi, relieving diarrhea, moistening skin, resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation and killing insects.
2. Soybean sprouts
Soybean contains trypsin inhibitor and more phytic acid, which affects the absorption and utilization of nutrients. During the germination of soybean, trypsin inhibitor was mostly destroyed, and protein contained in soybean was decomposed into soluble peptides and amino acids, which not only increased the freshness of bean sprouts, but also increased the utilization rate of protein in bean sprouts by at least 10% compared with soybean. Soybean sprouts also contain an interferon inducer, which can induce interferon and interfere with virus metabolism. People are more prone to viral colds and other miscellaneous diseases in spring. Therefore, eating soybean sprouts in spring can also enhance the body's ability to resist viral infection.
3.dandelion
People who are full of fire due to yin deficiency on weekdays should eat more dandelions in spring, but not too much, 50 grams a day is enough. All wild vegetables can be used as fillings, dandelion is no exception, but the practice of blanching and chopping is unscientific from the nutritional point of view, because all the components with high gold content may escape when the cell wall is broken. Only the simplest and most natural way to eat dandelion can best retain its nutrition, that is, wash it and eat it directly in the sauce. There is also dandelion to make egg drop soup, which is also a diet therapy for fire.
4. Mulberry
Mulberry is also called mulberry fruit and mulberry bubble. Farmers like to eat its ripe fresh fruit, which tastes sweet and juicy and is one of the fruits that people often eat. Mature mulberries are oily, sweet and sour, especially large, thick, purple and full of sugar. Before and after Grain Rain, the acceleration of temperature rise led to the decline of human immunity, and Mulberry had the function of enhancing immune function.
5.sugar cane
Sugarcane is rich in sugar and water, and also contains a variety of vitamins, fats, protein, organic acids, calcium, iron and other substances that are very beneficial to human metabolism. Eating some sugar cane in spring can speed up metabolism and help to quickly excrete toxins from the body. Sugarcane is a good dietotherapy product, which can moisten, cool and nourish.
6.bananas
Banana is a kind of beneficial fruit rich in starch. Sweet and cold, it can clear away heat and moisten intestines and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. When the weather is dry in spring, people are also prone to get angry and cause constipation. Eating bananas at this time helps to defecate smoothly. The folk prescription is more effective to treat chronic cough with banana stewed rock sugar; Cook wine with bananas as a diet.
7.pineapple
Pineapple is flat, sweet, slightly sour, slightly astringent and slightly cold. It has the effects of clearing away summer heat, quenching thirst, promoting digestion, relieving diarrhea, invigorating spleen and stomach, strengthening body constitution, invigorating qi and blood, promoting digestion and eliminating dampness, and caring skin and slimming. After Grain Rain, the temperature rises, pineapple juice can cool down and effectively prevent bronchitis, but it is best not to have a fever. According to medical research, since ancient times, human beings often rely on bromelain contained in pineapples to relieve the symptoms of sore throat and cough.
8.strawberries
Strawberry has high nutritional value and is rich in vitamin C, which helps digestion. At the same time, strawberries can also strengthen gums, refresh breath and moisten throat. In spring, people's anger is often strong, and eating strawberries can play an inhibitory role. In addition, strawberries are best eaten after meals, because they contain a lot of pectin and cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, improve constipation and prevent hemorrhoids and intestinal cancer.
Principles of seasonal health preservation in Grain Rain
1, drink more water at ordinary times.
Drinking water can increase the circulating blood volume, which is beneficial to nourishing the liver and excreting metabolic waste, and can reduce the damage of poisons to the liver. In addition, hydration is also beneficial to gland secretion, especially the secretion of digestive juices such as bile.
Drinking scented tea in spring is helpful to dispel the cold evil accumulated in the body in winter, promote the hair growth of human yang, and stagnate and evacuate. Moderate drinking tea can also refresh you, but don't be greedy for cold drinks in spring.
2, the diet should be light
From the thick taste of cream in winter to the mild temperature, the diet should be warm and avoid cold. In animal foods, we should eat less high-fat foods such as fat meat, because greasy foods are prone to satiety and fatigue.
People with cold stomach can often eat ginger to drive away cold and warm stomach; Asthma patients can take some ginger honey water to moisten dryness and relieve asthma; Patients with chronic bronchitis should fast or eat less spicy food. Others should not eat more irritating food, so as not to help the fire and hurt the body.
Step 3 eat more vegetables
After winter, most people will have insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis, night blindness and some skin diseases in spring.
Therefore, with the arrival of spring and the listing of a large number of fresh vegetables, people must eat more fresh vegetables in order to have a balanced nutrition and good health.
4. Increase sweetness and decrease acidity
In spring, the liver's drainage function is in the most vigorous season, so it is necessary to eat some foods that will inhibit the growth of liver qi, such as some sour foods, which have the effect of convergence and absorption and have a good effect on inhibiting liver qi. But if it's a group of people with liver yin deficiency, it's because they eat less sour food to prevent excessive liver qi. Eating some mild food in spring, such as red dates, can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also nourish yin and replenish blood. Yam is also a good product for health preservation in spring, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying kidney and solidifying essence.
Step 5 eat more fruits
Fruit is not only rich in high nutritional value, but also can enhance our body's resistance. Spring belongs to the rainy season, the weather is changeable and it is easy to catch a cold. Eating more fruits can help us keep fit and improve our immunity. Such as bananas, strawberries, apples and cherries.