2, pepper and cypress wine, has appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty's "four-person monthly order". Pepper is Chinese prickly ash. The ancients said that pepper is the essence of jade star, with fragrant smell, which makes people light and anti-aging. Cypress is a cypress leaf, which is regarded as an elixir by the ancients and can avoid all diseases.
3. Take the leaves, branches and stems of peaches and boil them for drinking. The ancients used peach as the essence of the five elements, which could resist evil spirits. Be a hundred ghosts, so drink them.
4, rubber teeth, in fact, this custom has placed a good wish for longevity, because teeth are strong, can eat and drink, natural and healthy.
5. As the food of Yuanri, it was first recorded in the local customs of Zhou Dynasty between Wu and Jin Dynasties, saying that eating five parsley in the morning of Yuanri was "to help build the qi of five internal organs" (Volume I of Jade Candles Collection). Five kinds of coriander are five kinds of spicy dishes. The Chronicle of Jingchu Age notes garlic, garlic, leek, Yuntai and coriander.
6. Local Customs says, "Zheng Dan, when you swallow a chicken, it's called training." Fitness is a Taoist term, which refers to practicing the body and thinking that you can become immortal. Eating eggs raw is for longevity.
7. Refers to the food cooked in water with wheat flour products in ancient times. At the end of Wei Dynasty, Jia Sixie mentioned the "water-drawing method" in the "cake method" in Qi Yaomin's book, in which "water-drawing method" is: "If it is as big as a raft, one foot is broken and the dish is full of water.
8. It is made of glutinous rice in the south and sticky millet in the north. Rice cakes have a long history. Rice cakes in Han Dynasty are called rice cakes, cakes, bait and cakes.