Playing spring is a traditional custom in China, which is also commonly known as beginning of spring. When playing spring, we have the habit of eating spring cakes. Besides, we can also eat spring rolls, spring plates, radishes and other foods, but there are also many taboos in this traditional solar term.
What to eat in spring
1, spring pancake
Tang's "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" records: "In spring, eat reeds, spring cakes and lettuce, and count' vegetables'." It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty have begun to try spring vegetables and eat spring cakes. The so-called spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of hot flour cake-two small pieces of water, oiled in the middle, rolled into pancakes, and peeled into two pieces when cooked. Spring cakes are used to roll vegetables, including cooked vegetables and stir-fried dishes.
2. Spring plate
Spring plate, also known as "spiced plate", is finely cut from five kinds of spicy lettuce. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Five spicy dishes are mixed with onion, garlic, leek, chrysanthemum and mustard in New Year's Day and spring to welcome the new year." This custom has been spread to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. For example, in Yuan Dynasty, Lu Ye Chu Cai wrote a poem "A Poor Spring Banquet in a Spring Inn", which said that lotus roots, peas, onions, Artemisia selengensis, leeks and vermicelli were used for the spring banquet.
3. Spring rolls
In addition to spring cakes, spring rolls are also a kind of holiday food that people often eat in spring. Spring rolls evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring rolls. There was a kind of "rolled pancake" in Song Dynasty, which was a transitional type between spring cake and spring roll. In the Yuan Dynasty's Complete Collection of Household Articles, it has been recorded that spring cakes are wrapped in paper and fried before eating. In the Qing dynasty, the name of spring rolls appeared.
4. Little carrots
After beginning of spring, the temperature gradually rose, and people's yang rose step by step. People in China pay attention to food supplement. At this time, they choose foods with sweet and divergent characteristics to keep their bodies in line with the weather. Su Dongpo said in a poem: "Reed roots are still full of dew, Qiu Lai is full of frost and snow, and reeds have children and grandchildren." Li Shizhen is full of praise for radish, thinking that it "can be eaten raw, cooked, sauced, fermented, vinegar, sugar, wax and rice, which is the most beneficial among vegetables." Radish also has medicinal values such as expectorant, ventilation and cough relieving. This may be the original intention of the ancients to advocate eating radishes in spring.
5. Spring bamboo shoots
When it comes to eating spring, you have to mention bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are crisp and delicious, and can chew out fragrance and sweetness, so they are known as "the first vegetarian food". Eating bamboo shoots has the effects of nourishing yin and nourishing blood, resolving phlegm and promoting digestion, facilitating defecation and improving eyesight, and has a good auxiliary effect on preventing and treating hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, intestinal cancer and hemorrhoids.
6.honey
Sweet honey water is called "the first sip of water in spring". Chinese medicine believes that honey is sweet, enters the spleen and stomach, and can replenish the middle energizer, replenish qi and moisten the intestines to relieve constipation. Because honey contains a variety of minerals and vitamins, and has the function of moistening lung and detoxifying, it can enhance human immunity and is the most ideal tonic in spring. Therefore, in spring, if you can drink 1~2 spoonfuls of honey every day, take it with a cup of warm water or add milk, which will have a nourishing effect on your body.
The taboo of playing spring.
1, you can't go back to your parents' house
Spring is the beginning of a year. In ancient times, when a woman got married, it was her husband's family, so she could not bring her husband's family's luck back to her family. Then, I went back to my parents' house in the spring, and I was going to get married the next spring. These are all unreasonable statements. Today, when men and women have independent personalities, there is no need to stick to these nonsense. Go back to your mother's house in spring, and your mother's house is as close as your husband's.
2. Don't go to see a doctor
If you don't see a doctor on that day in spring, it means that you have no good luck for a year. This statement is just to win a good name, just like not seeing a doctor on New Year's Day. There's nothing wrong with a minor illness. Don't you want to see a serious illness? It is normal for people to get sick because of the five elements. Don't stick to this statement. Optimism about patients' health is the last word.
Step 3 don't get a haircut
It is unlucky to get a haircut in spring. This taboo is worth considering. Hair is a plant of human body. In spring, the weather gets warmer, the vegetation grows, and the new vegetation is damaged. This is contrary to the principle that heaven and earth run and vegetation grows. In addition, there are 365 days in a year. Why do you have to choose this day for a haircut? To adhere to this habit is to remind the world to follow the five elements of nature!
4. Don't lie down
Because the spirit of the sun begins to rise at this time, you should stand or sit solemnly to welcome the arrival of a beautiful moment; Because the spirit of the sun begins to rise at this time, you should stand or sit solemnly to welcome the beautiful moment and make good luck for yourself in the new year.
5. Don't quarrel
Don't quarrel, don't swear, don't argue with each other, be kind and welcome the spring. This is a good tradition and a virtue. Playing spring is the beginning of a year. On this first day, people are prone to emotional instability. If you forget your virtue on this day, I don't know how many days you can remember that year. This is to remind everyone to remember the good tradition of our nation. It is unlucky, troublesome and unfavorable to play spring all year round. Therefore, I advise my friends to adjust themselves and be happy to meet the new ones.
Step 6 don't move
Don't move in spring My understanding of this habit should be observed, and so should my studious friends. Don't choose a four-day holiday. This is the handover time and the atmosphere is complicated. It is naturally inappropriate to move. At the beginning of the year, moving will be more turbulent. How can we have a stable day in the new year? We must believe in the movement of the sun and the moon, the cycle of the five elements, and the mysterious connotation of the number "one". Those who conform to heaven and earth and integrate heaven and man will be blessed by God.