Folk activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day
1, outing
Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was also called exploring spring and seeking spring. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, the sun is shining, everything is reviving, and the earth is full of vitality. It is a good time to go for an outing. The custom of outing has a long history and was formed as early as the pre-Qin period. In the Song Dynasty, the wind of hiking was the most popular and passed down from generation to generation.
Step 2 eat eggs
The custom of eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a history of thousands of years. The ancients cooked eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs and other eggs and painted them in various colors, which were called "colored eggs". They threw these colorful eggs into the river and washed them down the river. People downstream scrambled for them, thinking that they could have children after eating them.
Later, people ate eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, symbolizing family reunion. There is also a folklore that Tomb-Sweeping Day eats eggs, and his health will be fine all year round, just like eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which are all holiday foods.
Step 3 eat hair cakes
During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people like to eat steamed cakes, which are made by grinding glutinous rice into rice slurry and steaming it. A lot of steamed cakes are delicious or not, but steamed or not, which is used to pin their good wishes of "getting rich" and "rising".
Step 4 eat green balls
Youth League is a snack in the south of the Yangtze River and the most festive food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a kind of wormwood that only existed before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour and soup. Because jiaozi is bright green, it is named Youth League.
5. Children and in-laws send numbness to each other
In some places in Zhejiang province, the custom of sending hemp chips to each other by children and relatives is still preserved. In ancient times, after men and women got married, it often took a long time to get married formally, also for the convenience of mutual inspection. After all, getting married is a great event in life. It is a kind of etiquette before marriage that children and parents-in-law send hemp chips to each other. The man usually sends hemp chips to the woman in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, indicating that the next Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming to marry his new wife. After the daughter gets married, the parents of the woman's family will send a snack to the man's family in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which means wishing the young couple a happy life, My Sweetie and happiness.
Qingming health care skills
Cultivate moral quality
In spring, the human body yang rises, and so does the human body yang. In order to help yang, we should pay attention to eating onions, coriander, black beans, dates, stilbene and so on. And eat more foods that strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidney and moisten the lungs, such as loquat, pear, lotus seed, lily, jujube, walnut and honey. This will help to relieve the symptoms.
Nourish spleen
Chinese medicine also believes that "acid should be preserved and sweetened in spring to nourish the temper." This is because when the liver-qi is strong in spring, the liver-qi will affect the spleen, so it is prone to spleen and stomach weakness in spring, and eating sour food will make the liver-yang hyperactive. Therefore, the spring diet should choose pungent and warm products, avoid acidity and eat more vegetables and wild vegetables.
Yang Yang
In spring, Yang Can is characterized by plain and clear diet as a supplement, such as warm food.
Light diet is suitable for normal people and weak people, such as buckwheat, coix seed, soybean milk, mung bean, apple, sesame and walnut. Food supplement refers to the diet cooked with foods with cold eating habits, such as pears, lotus roots, shepherd's purse, lilies and so on.
Nourishing kidney
The comfortable weather in spring is a good opportunity for patients with poor renal function to nourish and recuperate. At this time, taking Bushen recipe and Bushen medicated diet has a high curative effect on early renal function damage. Patients should pay attention to spring life conditioning, and the diet is mainly light and sweet. Edible light fruits and vegetables, such as mangosteen, lotus root, coix seed, cucumber, cantaloupe and so on.
nourishing the liver
In Huangdi Neijing, it is recorded that "people lie in blood and return to the liver", but in spring, they should lie at night and get up early. Nourishing the liver is more important than sleeping, so it is necessary to conform to the prosperous scene of nature, go to bed early and get up early, take a walk in the morning to relax, and relax the body and adjust the mood as a health preservation method.
treat yin deficiency by reinforcing body fluid and nourishing the blood
People with yin deficiency and internal heat can choose rice porridge, red bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste and other foods, and do not eat big sweet and greasy, fried and fatty, cold and rough food.
Bunao
In spring, people with hyperactivity of liver yang are prone to headache and dizziness, which is the reason why Chinese medicine says that "all diseases in spring are in the head". Its diet prevention method is: eat 250 ~ 500 grams of bananas or oranges every day; Or use banana peel 100g instead of tea and decoct with water. In addition, 250 grams of celery and red dates 10 can be used instead of tea.
nourishing the stomach
You should avoid greasy pork soup, chicken soup, fish soup, beef soup, spinach, beans, animal offal and irritating condiments in your diet, because these foods have a strong stimulating effect on the secretion of gastric juice and are easy to form gas, which will lead to abdominal distension and increase the burden on the stomach. The diet should be light and easy to digest, and the above honey therapy can be used.
Prevention of diseases in Tomb-Sweeping Day
First, pay attention to keep warm and prevent wind and evil.
During my stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, sudden weather changes led to an increase in colds. Therefore, people should pay attention to wind protection and warmth to prevent the common cold from invading the human body and causing damage to health. When you go out to worship your ancestors or go hiking, you can prepare a coat with you so that foreign evils can't invade your body.
In addition, pregnant women, the elderly, children and other weak people should take more rest to protect their health while preventing colds.
Second, protect the liver from liver diseases.
Liver disease is easy to appear on the body during the Qingming period, because the dry wind at this time can easily make people angry. If the fire is not cleared in time, it is easy to induce liver disease. Therefore, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we should pay attention to the health of the liver and prevent liver diseases.
Eat more foods that calm the liver, nourish the kidney and moisten the lungs, avoid irritating foods such as mutton and peppers, and eat more fresh fruits to effectively protect the health of the liver.
Third, prevent allergies.
There are many allergens in the air in spring, and it's time for a large number of flowers to bloom around Tomb-Sweeping Day. Therefore, when going out for an outing, we must pay attention to skin care. Friends who are allergic to pollen should not go for an outing where flowers are in full bloom, and avoid too high grass in the wild.
Because insects are active before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is easy to be bitten by insects when entering the grass at this time, thus inducing allergic phenomena, so we must pay attention to this in our life.
Fourth, don't eat unknown wild vegetables to prevent stomach trouble.
Spring is the season when many wild vegetables are on the market, but when traveling in Qingming, you should not pick wild vegetables to eat at will to prevent food poisoning or other gastrointestinal diseases. You know, although many wild vegetables seem harmless, they can easily become health killers after eating by mistake.
Fifth, pay attention to heart health.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the time to worship ancestors, but we must be careful not to be too sad when worshipping ancestors to prevent heart health damage, especially for friends who have already suffered from heart disease and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Because violent mood swings can easily lead to these diseases, which will lead to the destruction of heart health.
Sixth, prevent spring plague.
Spring is a season of life recovery and danger. Why is it dangerous Because although everything recovers in spring, the air always contains a lot of viruses and bacteria. If we don't pay attention to these viruses and bacteria, we will be easily infected and cause diseases.
Such as influenza, meningitis, whooping cough and other diseases, are easy to appear around Tomb-Sweeping Day, so wearing a mask when you go out and washing your face frequently when you go home is of great benefit to your health.
Seven, prevention of mumps
Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, there was another disease that was easy to appear. It is mumps, which is highly contagious and even spread through saliva droplets. Therefore, if you want to prevent this disease when going out to play, wearing a mask, choosing a clean restaurant and using public chopsticks when eating can effectively prevent the occurrence of mumps.
Eight, prevent eye diseases
Eye diseases are also easy to appear around Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as pinkeye and trachoma. Therefore, in order to protect health, Tomb-Sweeping Day should prevent these eye diseases, try not to go to crowded places, try not to rub your eyes with your hands or share a set of toiletries with others. Washing hands and faces often can help us effectively prevent eye diseases.
IX. Prevention of Respiratory Diseases
Bacteria in the air increase and become more active. At this time, good indoor air should be maintained, and proper window ventilation can effectively prevent respiratory diseases. And exhausting indoor exhaust gas can help people protect the health of their lungs. Why refuse to kill two birds with one stone?