What do Shanghainese eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Huang Wu
"Huang Wu"-Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk and realgar wine, feel the Dragon Boat Festival on the tip of your tongue.
Why do you eat "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival? Professor Tian Zhaoyuan explained that this is a custom in Jiangnan area. In China culture, yellow is a noble color. When the wheat matures in May, it is also a scene of bumper harvest, which is auspicious. The yellow color of realgar can kill evil spirits, and it also has the effect of exorcising evil spirits in the climate in May. Therefore, the purpose of eating "Huang Wu" is to exorcise evil spirits and seek good luck.
Three glasses of white wine and one glass of red wine.
"Three whites"-water bamboo, salted duck egg protein and white-cut meat.
"One red"-the red soup after the cabbage is fried with garlic is red.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the sun's spirit began to rise, and all kinds of insects began to stir, and the evil spirits were very strong. The ancients took some measures to keep healthy, ward off evil spirits, and drive away insects, snakes and scorpions. Eating Sanbai is one of them.
zongzi
Zongzi is fragrant during the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, during the Dragon Boat Festival in 278 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet exiled to the Miluo River, learned that the capital of Chu had fallen, and in desperation, he threw a big stone into the Miluo River and committed suicide. Therefore, it is said that the "Dragon Boat Festival" is a day to commemorate Qu Yuan, and eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival has also become a traditional custom in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. From ancient times to the present, the Dragon Boat Festival carries people's feelings about life: missing, gratitude, yearning and praying.
What food do you eat for health during Dragon Boat Festival?
1, amaranth
Chinese medicine believes that amaranth is cool, slightly sweet, enters the lungs and intestines, and is born in the fields or on the roadside. Has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood, stopping bleeding and stopping dysentery. According to nutrition, amaranth is rich in calcium easily absorbed by human body, which can promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal myocardial activity and prevent muscle spasms and cramps. Rich in iron, calcium and vitamin K, it has the functions of promoting blood coagulation, increasing hemoglobin content, improving oxygen carrying capacity and promoting hematopoiesis. Amaranth is also the protagonist on the diet table. Regular consumption can reduce weight, strengthen the body, promote detoxification and prevent constipation.
At present, red amaranth is the first choice, with large, complete and tender leaves. Purple amaranth is better, and rotten amaranth is not suitable for purchase. The amaranth can be picked up by blanching, so as to avoid the destruction of nutrients and affect the curative effect. Amaranth does not last long. You'd better finish it as soon as possible. Short-term storage can be wrapped in plastic wrap or put in plastic bags and refrigerated in the refrigerator.
2. Eggplant
Solanine is contained in eggplant, which can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumors and play a certain role in the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer. In addition, eggplant has the function of clearing away cancer fever, so it is especially suitable for eating in summer. Eggplant contains vitamin E, which has hemostatic and anti-aging effects. Eating eggplant regularly can prevent the cholesterol level in the blood from rising, which has positive significance for delaying human aging.
Because eggplant tastes sweet and cold, it belongs to cold food. Therefore, pregnant women with weak constitution, dyspepsia, diarrhea, spleen and stomach weakness, asthma and loose stool symptoms should not eat more. Don't eat eggplant before operation. Anesthetics may not decompose normally, which will delay the patient's recovery time and affect the patient's recovery speed.
3. Yellow croaker
Yellow croaker is not only crisp and tender, delicious, but also easy to digest and absorb. The bladder, flesh and blood and gallbladder of yellow croaker can cure diseases. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, yellow croaker is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of improving eyesight, calming nerves, invigorating qi, strengthening spleen and appetizing. Modern nutritional research also found that the content of protein in yellow croaker is high, and it is rich in fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine and a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, so it has high medicinal value.
Yellow croaker is especially suitable for people with weak body, sallow and emaciated body, listlessness, lethargy, loss of appetite and other symptoms, and has a certain effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep for people with sleep disorders and easy insomnia. The Tang Dynasty's "Kaibao Materia Medica" introduced the dietotherapy formula of "water shield and yellow croaker soup", that is, water shield 15g and yellow croaker 250g, boiled in water to make a thick juice, which has the effect of invigorating qi and appetizing, and people with poor appetite can eat more.
Step 4: carrots
Carrots are rich in nutrition. Eating carrots often is good for health. They are the first choice food for health in summer. They can not only prevent cancer and oxidation, but also have the effects of beauty, beauty, detoxification and sun protection. They are essential "sunscreens" in summer. Vitamin A in carrots can help the liver eliminate toxins in the body and reduce fat in the liver. Cellulose can also help clean up the waste in the colon and accelerate its excretion.
According to the research of Harvard University, people who eat six carrots a week are less likely to have a stroke than those who eat only one or less carrots a month. People who don't eat carrots are prone to stroke. Another most important value of carrots is that they can resist aging, because β -carotene can also play an antioxidant role in the normal metabolism of the body and help cells slow down the aging process.
5. tomatoes
Tomato is rich in lycopene, its anti-acidification effect can effectively inhibit the activity of active oxygen, and its anti-cancer ability is very high! In addition, vitamin K can prevent osteoporosis to a certain extent, which can be said to be the savior of female bones! Vitamin E is a good helper to maintain liver function and improve hangover. Boiled tomatoes are a good food for women to lose weight. As a breakfast or pre-meal snack, the organic acids contained in it can accelerate metabolism, make fat burn fully, solve the constipation problem, and gradually improve the physique from fat to thin. Most vitamins in tomatoes are water-soluble, so when we eat boiled tomatoes, remember to finish the soup!
6.cucumber
Compendium of Materia Medica records that cucumber tastes sweet and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, diuresis and detumescence. It is helpful for common symptoms such as irritability and sore throat in spring. Modern medicine believes that cucumber contains cellulose, which plays a certain role in promoting intestinal peristalsis and accelerating excretion. Cucumber contains cucumber acid, which can promote human metabolism and excrete toxins. The diuretic effect of cucumber can clean the urethra and help the kidneys excrete toxins from the urinary system.
Fresh cucumber also contains propanedioic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. However, people with cold cucumber, weak spleen and stomach and chronic illness should eat less. Cucumber is very suitable for cold salad, such as cucumber mixed with fungus and garlic. People with deficiency of spleen and stomach can fry cucumbers or jiaozi stuffed with cucumbers.
7.lobster
Shrimp has a high nutritional value and is full of treasures. Shrimp brain contains essential amino acids, cephalin and other nutrients; Shrimp meat contains a lot of protein and carbohydrates; Shrimp skin contains many nutrients needed by human body, such as astaxanthin, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. Shrimp is a high-protein and low-fat aquatic product. Protein content is more than 40%, crude fat content is about 7%, and calcium content is 9%. In addition, it is rich in carotene, vitamins and eight essential amino acids.
Shrimp should not be eaten with some fruits. Shrimp is rich in nutrients such as protein and calcium. If you eat with fruits containing tannic acid, such as grapes, pomegranate and hawthorn, not only the nutritional value will be reduced, but the combination of tannic acid and calcium salt will cause gastrointestinal discomfort and prone to vomiting, dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Seafood should be eaten with these fruits at least two hours apart.
8. Eel
In seafood, there is a saying that "summer is the supplement and eel comes first". After foraging in spring, the eel in summer is tender, delicious and nutritious, which not only tastes good, but also has a nourishing effect on people of various constitutions. Therefore, there is also a saying that "Monopterus albus participates in summer", which is a kind of praise for Monopterus albus in nourishing diet.
Monopterus albus, also known as eel and long fish, looks like a long snake and is a kind of fish that lives in rivers, lakes, ponds and rice fields. Monopterus albus is tender, delicious and nutritious. Every100g of Monopterus albus contains 0/8.8g of protein/kloc-0, 0.9g of fat, and also contains various nutrients such as phosphorus, calcium, iron, vitamins, riboflavin and nicotinic acid. It is an excellent food with high protein and low fat, and it is also a tonic for people with physical weakness and malnutrition after illness.
9. Duck eggs
Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival? There is a certain basis in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that duck eggs are sweet in taste and cool in nature, and have the functions of nourishing yin, clearing away lung heat, strengthening muscles and moistening skin. However, salted duck eggs are salty and slightly cold, which can nourish yin and clear lung, and can cure cough, sore throat, toothache and diarrhea in summer. It is a good food supplement and complementary food in summer. May is regarded as a poisonous month and an evil month, and the fifth day of May is the first of the nine poisons. Eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can detoxify and help to keep healthy.
Even if you don't eat it on the Dragon Boat Festival, you can eat it all summer. The old Chinese doctor said that salted duck eggs are strong in summer. Nutritionists say that duck eggs are rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and iron, which are higher than eggs and fresh duck eggs. It is the first choice for supplementing calcium and iron in summer. However, the salt content of salted duck eggs is too high, which easily leads to an increase in blood pressure; In addition, the fat content and cholesterol content of egg yolk are very high, which should not exceed two at a time, and middle-aged and elderly people should eat less.
Customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghai
Dragon boat race is one of the customs that people are deeply impressed by the Dragon Boat Festival. Shanghai is also a traditional water town in the south of the Yangtze River, so water sports are almost essential during the Dragon Boat Festival. Some people even decorate boats with colorful flags, make them beautiful, and then shake them on the water. There are people singing and duets on board. Finally, let's judge which ship is decorated best and who sings best.
Besides eating zongzi and racing dragon boats, Shanghai, like many other places, used to decorate itself. Decorations are generally made of gold and silver thread or copper wire and gold foil, which looks like a villain riding a tiger. There are bells, bells, tassels, garlic and zongzi. These things can be inserted into a woman's hair or used for breast feeding. Children will also draw a "king" pattern on their foreheads with realgar wine, which is also called forehead painting, so as to use realgar to drive away poison and tigers to suppress evil.
Shanghainese call it sachet, also called sachet, sachet and purse. Made of five-color silk thread and rags. The perfume is made from Chinese herbal medicines, such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Scutellariae Radix, Rhizoma Sparganii, Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Gan Song and Rhizoma Kaempferiae. They are worn on the chest and smell fragrant.
In addition to sachets, many Shanghainese hung small net bags crocheted with glass ribbons on their chests when they were young, which just contained an egg wrapped in colorful silk thread or painted with colors, which also meant to ward off evil spirits and seek happiness.
Besides eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, wearing ornaments and hanging sachets, there are many other customs handed down during the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, many people will put wormwood in the doors and windows and hang two calamus. In addition to the gate, there are people hanging garlic on the door in the room, and so are the girls' boudoir doors. People think that these strong-smelling garlic itself has the function of exorcism, so hanging garlic in some places has become one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. I guess you like it.