In the vernal equinox period, when there is a continuous invasion of cold air in the south of China, there will be a persistent low temperature spring cold weather, at this time, and then there is an accompanying cloudy rain, which will have a great impact on crops. Here is my traditional food and health tips for the spring equinox, I hope it can help you.

What traditional food to eat on the spring equinox

1, spring vegetables

Eating spring vegetables is also a custom throughout the country on the day of the spring equinox. Spring vegetables is not a kind of vegetable, but a collective name for spring vegetables, such as capers, parsnips and so on. On the day of the spring equinox, everyone will go to the fields to pick wild vegetables, and go home to make spring soup with fish and meat to symbolize peace and health.

2, donkey roll

Old Beijing has a custom to eat donkey roll on the vernal equinox, to ward off evil spirits and pray for luck. Donkey rolls, also known as bean flour cake, with soybean flour as the main ingredient, supplemented by red bean paste, sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon, green and red silk and melon seeds as the filling, not only rich in taste, but also a variety of ingredients. It should be noted that the donkey roll sticky, the elderly children should pay attention to when eating, should not eat too quickly, to avoid blocking the esophagus, causing danger.

3, sun cake

"Sun cake, step by step". Spring equinox eating sun cake is also the old Beijing equinox custom, spring equinox day to worship the sun god, "please" eat sun cake. The sun cake is not only a tribute for the spring equinox festival, but also a seasonal food, which means "the sun is high". The equinox moderate consumption of sun cake is beneficial to regulate the balance of body functions, adapt to the changes in the season.

4, spring cake

People in many places have the custom of eating spring cake. Eat spring cake, less spring cake unique side dishes - and vegetables. The so-called and vegetables is to use seasonal vegetables (such as leeks, bean sprouts, dried incense, etc.) cut into the silk, or mixed or fried. If you mix it, you blanch the bean sprouts in water, boil the dried vermicelli, make a sauce with cornstarch, vinegar and soy sauce, and mix the shredded vegetables with the sauce. If you want to stir-fry, you can put shredded pork, shredded egg skins, mung bean sprouts, shredded dried tofu, blanched vermicelli, spinach or leeks into a wok and stir-fry them together.

Vernal Equinox Tips

A, living health

Daily life should be living, work and rest, so that the rhythm of life with the change of time, space and the four climate and adjustments to take advantage of the vitality of the good time, do more outdoor activities, more sun, relaxation.

1, the right time to add or subtract clothes. Although the weather is slowly warming up, still from time to time there will be a cold front, the weather changes, pay attention to add or subtract clothing. You can't get cold, and you can't get too hot. Can not be too eager to take off thick clothes, clothing can be under the thick on the thin, especially the feet of the warmth. Spring cover should also continue.

2, get up early. After the equinox, the day becomes longer, in accordance with the laws of nature, to get up early as appropriate, not lazy bed. General 6:00 or so get up on it, this is the time of day equinox, conducive to the development of Yang Qi.

3, comfortable and hygienic room. You can arrange the room to be comfortable and orderly, keep indoor health and outdoor health clean, pay attention to regulate the indoor temperature and humidity, often open the window, so that indoor air circulation.

Second, diet

The main principle of diet at this time is to seek balance. Because the liver is strong, you need to replenish the spleen and moisturize the lungs flat.

1, it is advisable to eat more warm and cool food. The general principle is to avoid the great heat and cold, and strive to neutralize, such as eating cold food, it is accompanied by warm products, such as seafood with scallions and ginger; such as the service of yang products, it is accompanied by nourishing yin and yang balance, such as chives and scrambled eggs, contraindicated hot, cold food.

2, save acid sweet. Chinese medicine says that when the liver is strong, the spleen and stomach weak, more acidic food will make the liver too strong and damage the spleen and stomach, should eat less acidic food, increase the intake of sweet food (such as jujube, honey) to nourish the spleen and stomach. Eat less food that is too sweet, too spicy, and greasy, and eat more light, fresh, and easy-to-digest food, such as porridge.

3, eat more seasonal food. To eat more nature in the spring to give us food, that taste and spring like - light and sweet. Such as spinach, bamboo shoots, parsnips, bean sprouts, garlic shoots, bean sprouts, leeks and so on. If you have the opportunity, you can go to the field to dig wild vegetables, can relax and eat seasonal vegetables, two birds with one stone. The human body needs to consume sufficient vitamins and minerals to maintain the balance of various elements. Newborn seasonal vegetables and fruits can provide more vitamins, minerals and other nutrients for the body. In line with the liver and gallbladder qi of the birth, we should also eat some with the nature of the rise, the flavor of the pungent food, such as onions, ginger, garlic, help the winter storage of the essence of the dispersion out.

In addition, according to their own constitution to choose some flower tea to drink, suitable for spring to drink a lot of flower tea, most of the flower tea has a qi, liver, appetizing effect; fragrant flavor and natural nutrients, but also to promote the regulation of blood and Yang Qi. For example, jasmine, chrysanthemum, acacia flowers.

Third, exercise health

Spring equinox cold basically has passed, but the cold and warmth is uncertain, coupled with more wind, a variety of diseases are easy to breed, it is easy to cold and runny, high blood pressure, menstrual disorders, allergic diseases, and so on, and even some of the old diseases will be issued. Therefore, the movement should be increased to exercise the body and enhance immunity.

1, usually more walking, you can also jogging, playing Tai Chi. Soft and soothing movements are appropriate.

2, more outdoor exercise. When the weather is sunny, you can go for a picnic, and the green color is in the liver. Seeing more green and exercising more can soothe and nourish the liver. Before and after the spring equinox, clear air rises, and the breeze flutters, which is the best season for kite flying, which can clear internal heat, nourish liver qi, and improve eyesight. Because you need to keep your eyes on the kite and keep running, it is a good opportunity for people sitting in the office in the city to relax their eyes and take care of them. But no matter what the exercise should not be too strenuous, to the extent of a slight sweat.

3, the traditional health gong method. Recommend a set of guiding techniques. Ming Gao Lian edited "Ya Shang Zhai Zunsheng eight paper" contained Chen Xiyi twenty-four gas guide sitting figure. This set of guide according to the season to practice integrated spit guide, deep with the "unity of man and heaven" theory. Specific practices: daily ugly, c time, reach back, left and right to pull the lead, each six or seven degrees, knocking teeth six six, spit gargling three three. Often do, in addition to health care, but also to treat the virtual labor evil, toothache, neck swelling, cold chestnut, hot swelling, deafness, tinnitus, after the ear shoulder forearms elbow arm outside back pain, gas full, skin shell Ran firm and pain, phlegm itch, and so on.

Vernal Equinox Recipes

1: leeks strong kidney Yang Qi

Spring climate cold and warm, the need to maintain Yang Qi, and leeks are the most suitable for the human body Yang Qi. Leek contains volatile oil, protein, fat and a variety of vitamins and other nutrients, stomach, refreshing, strong kidney and other effects. Spring leeks for leeks in the best, the flavor is particularly delicious. Its roots white as jade, green leaves like jade, fragrant. Spring leeks eat a variety of ways, both meat, eggs, shrimp, cuttlefish, etc., and can be made of steamed dumplings filling. Fried mung bean sprouts or dried tofu with some spring leeks, extraordinarily fragrant and delicious.

2: Spinach detoxification spring dryness

Spinach is a year-round vegetable, but in the spring for the best, rather than Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan said "autumn spinach"." Spring spinach" root red leaf green, fresh and tender, the most delicious. Spinach listed in the spring, on the detoxification, spring dryness is quite beneficial. Chinese medicine also believes that spinach is sweet and cool, can nourish blood, stop bleeding, astringent yin, moistening dryness. Because spinach contains more oxalic acid, hindering the absorption of calcium and iron, eating spinach is recommended to use boiling water first, and then fry.

3: spring buds antibacterial and skin care

Spring food spring buds. Confucius said "from time to time, do not eat", meaning, not this season (something) do not eat. The classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, "Huang Di Nei Jing", also said that we should "eat the grain of the year", that is, we should eat seasonal food. In the spring, all the plants have issued bright green shoots, edible spring buds are many, such as parsnip, bean sprouts, garlic shoots, bean sprouts, lettuce and so on.

4: Taste the freshness of spring bamboo shoots

Known as the "vegetarian first" as a delicacy, since ancient times, much loved by people. Literati and gourmets have marveled at it, and there is a "taste of freshness without saying spring bamboo shoots," said. Spring bamboo shoots body fat, delicious and refreshing, nutritious, meat can be vegetarian. Different practices, different flavors, fried, stewed, boiled, simmered into a delicacy. Local famous dishes spring bamboo shoots all occupy a place, such as Shanghai's "Chinese wolfberry spring bamboo shoots", Nanjing's "spring bamboo shoots white mixed chicken", Zhejiang's "southern meat spring bamboo shoots". However, it is difficult to eat fresh spring bamboo shoots in the north, if it is the Fermarin soaked even if it.

5: green onions, ginger, garlic sterilization to help spring sun

Not only is a good seasoning, there are important medicinal value, can enhance appetite, help spring sun, but also has the efficacy of sterilization and disease prevention. Spring is the most nutritious spring onions and garlic in a year, but also the most tender, the most fragrant, the most delicious time to eat at this time to prevent the most common respiratory infections in the spring. Northern people in the spring love to eat small onions scrambled eggs or small onions dipped in sauce, are very nutritious and responsive to the season's best way to eat.

6: toon heat detoxification stomach

Spring equinox toon, fragrant, fresh and crisp, taste and nutrition are the best. And China's traditional Chinese medicine believes that the toon taste bitter, cold, have heat detoxification, stomach and gas effect. Due to the unique aromatic flavor of toon, it can play a good role in waking up the spleen and appetizing. After modern medical research found that in the toon contains a lot of rich vitamin E, so the toon also has a strong anti-aging effect.

But to remind everyone, because the content of nitrates and nitrites in the toon is higher than the general vegetables, so it is best to put the toon into the hot water first blanch when cooking, so eat the most healthy.

7: honey to supplement the gas

Chinese medicine, honey taste sweet, into the spleen and stomach two meridians, can supplement the gas, lubricate the bowels. In the spring, the climate is changing, the weather is cold and warm, people are prone to cold. As honey contains a variety of minerals, vitamins, and lung detoxification function, it can enhance the body's immunity, is the ideal spring tonic. Therefore, in the spring, if you can drink 1-2 spoons of honey every day, to a cup of warm water or add milk to take, the body has a nourishing effect.

8: Cherry benefit gas spleen appetizer

There is a "spring fruit, the first branch" of the reputation, are currently cultivated throughout China. Cherry fruit meat thick, juicy taste, bright color, rich in nutrients, its iron content is particularly prominent, more than citrus, pears and apples more than 20 times, the first fruit. Cherries are warm, sweet and slightly sour, with the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, tonifying the middle and benefiting the face, strengthening the spleen and opening the stomach. Eating cherries in spring can be sweating, beneficial to qi, wind and through the rash. It should be noted that cherries are fire, not more food, the body of yin deficiency fire should be avoided or eat less. Can't eat cherries, strawberries are also a very good choice.

9: jujube and other spleen sweet food

China's ancient famous doctor Sun Simiao said: "Spring should save acid to increase the sweet, in order to raise the spleen." It means that it is advisable to eat less acid and more sweet in spring. Chinese medicine believes that spring is the time when liver qi is strong, eating more sour food will make the liver qi too strong and damage the spleen and stomach, so you should eat less sour food. And people in the spring outdoor activities than in winter, physical exertion is greater, the need for heat increased. But at this time, the spleen and stomach is weak, gastrointestinal digestive ability is poor, not suitable for eating greasy meat, therefore, the heat can be appropriate by the supply of sweets. Red dates is such a flavor of spring spleen good.