On the March Festival, everything is neat and clear.

—— twenty-four solar term

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, walking festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestral beliefs and the custom of spring rituals in ancient times, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar festival, but also a traditional festival.

Qingming Health

Qingming Festival is just at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, and the temperature is getting warmer, but it also fluctuates frequently, causing a little temper and increasing rainfall, so Qingming Festival is also an important solar term for health.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi is a time when many chronic diseases are easy to recur, such as arthritis, asthma, mental illness, etc., so people with chronic diseases should avoid food that is easy to occur.

The so-called "hair products" refer to products that move wind to produce phlegm, send poison to help fire and evil spirits from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, such as sea fish, shrimp, sea crab, pickles, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, etc. You can eat some cool food appropriately.

The changeable weather can easily make people catch a cold, resulting in tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia.

At this time, respiratory infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever and chickenpox, are frequently occurring.

Therefore, everyone should pay close attention to the weather changes, try to avoid going in and out of public places, and pay special attention to "getting sick from the mouth".

As the saying goes, "Dressing in disorder in February" means around Tomb-Sweeping Day, because the climate changes a lot, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large.

wear a windbreaker when you go out to work in the morning, take it off when you feel hot at noon, and put it on when you get home from work at night, which will effectively prevent colds.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi is the prone period of hypertension, so we should keep a good mood, strengthen daily exercise and avoid participating in competitive activities to avoid emotional excitement; Avoid doing weight-bearing activities, so as not to cause suffocation and raise blood pressure.

Qingming Cuisine

Qingming is a sound of spring thunder, and besides going for a walk to sweep the grave, all kinds of seasonal delicacies have also begun to brew.

Youth League has always been the representative food of Qingming in Jiangnan area. Yuan Mei, a veteran eater, once recorded the method of making green balls in "Suiyuan Food List": "Pouring grass for juice, making balls with powder, and the color is like jasper".

The nutritional value of the green ball is also very rich. The wormwood used as the green ball has the effects of relieving asthma, benefiting gallbladder, relieving fire, resisting bacteria, dispelling cold and removing dampness, while the juice of wheat grass has the effects of removing oil and greasy, promoting digestion and reducing fire, and also has the function of beauty.

There is a custom of eating prickly heat in Tomb-Sweeping Day, north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a fried food, crispy and exquisite, and it was called "cold utensils" in ancient times.

prickly heat is easy to make. Add a little salt and seasoning to flour, mix it with water and knead it into dough. Then rub it into strips and sprinkle some rapeseed oil on it. When the noodles are thoroughly soaked in the basin and the elastic force is just right, wrap the noodles around your hands, spread them back and forth with your hands, and make them uniform in thickness, fold them into shapes, put them in an oil pan, gently turn them over with chopsticks, master the heat, and fry them into large or small handfuls, which is a crispy yellow prickly heat.

However, because the prickly heat is fried with strips of oil and water, the main nutrients are fat and carbohydrates, which are high-calorie and high-fat foods. It is not recommended to eat more.

Qingming fruit looks a little like jiaozi, but its taste is quite different. The skin of Qingming fruit is made of a plant called Artemisia argyi. The leaves of Artemisia argyi are mashed and mixed with rice flour to make a bright green dough, which is fresh and tender.

The stuffing of Qingming fruit is also very exquisite, and the production is fine. There are smoked fat sausage mixed with mustard powder, dried tofu and leeks, and other delicious combinations.

Qingming fruit is mainly made of mugwort juice and rice dough. It is rich in starch and vitamins, and contains plant fiber, which can not only provide energy for daily physiological consumption, but also provide necessary trace elements and dietary fiber.

The Qingming Festival is the best time to eat snails. Because snails are the most plump and plump at this time, there is a saying that "a snail in Qingming Festival is worth a goose".

Snail meat is plump and delicate, with delicious taste, and is known as the "pearl in the dish".

It is rich in protein eggs, vitamins, essential amino acids and trace elements, and it is a typical natural animal health food with high protein, low fat and high calcium.

There are many ways to eat snails, which can be fried with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook and pick out snail meat, which can be mixed, drunk, bad, and simmered.

Every Qingming Festival, red buds appear on the branches of Toona sinensis, and its special fragrance makes people covet.

There is even a saying that "Toona sinensis shoots scrambled eggs, but meat and fish are not changed".

As a famous seasonal product, Toona sinensis also has high nutritional value.

Toona sinensis contains vitamin E and sex hormones, which have the effects of anti-aging and tonifying yang and nourishing yin, so it is known as "fertility promoter".

In addition, Toona sinensis has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying, and is a good medicine for adjuvant treatment of enteritis, dysentery and urinary system infection.

Toona sinensis buds are still very fresh and tender during the Qingming Festival. If you miss this time, it will take another year, so don't miss it for friends who like to eat!

Qingming Customs

Tomb-Sweeping Day, along with the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, is also known as the four traditional festivals in China, with a long history, culture and folk customs. What else do you know besides the well-known grave-sweeping outing?

Flying kites is a favorite activity in Qingming Festival.

during the Qingming festival, people not only put it on during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of small colored lanterns is hung under a kite or on a wind-stable stay line, like a flashing star, which is called a "magic lamp".

In the past, some people put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring them good luck.

Before and after Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines and the spring rain flies, so the survival rate of planted saplings is high and the growth is fast.

Therefore, there is the habit of planting trees on Qingming Day, and some people even call Tomb-Sweeping Day "Arbor Day". The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day. The custom of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day is said to have originated from the custom of wearing willows and inserting willows in Qingming.

Tomb-Sweeping Day and China have the folk custom of inserting willows. Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: "If you have the heart to plant flowers, you will not grow them." Wicker lives when it is inserted into the soil, where it is inserted, where it lives, and where it is inserted every year, it is shaded everywhere.

Some people wear willow branches in a circle on their heads during Qingming Festival, others scrape tender willow branches into flowers and put them in the bun, and some people directly put willow branches in the bun, which has the function of ward off evil spirits, and later generations have the legacy of "celebrating the past", showing their cherish and nostalgia for their youth.

In addition, the epidemic situation has been repeated recently.

We should do a good job in prevention and control while making civilized sacrifices.

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